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Horses did neigh, and dying men did groan,
And ghosts did shriek and squeal about the streets.
O Caesar, these things are beyond all use, [25]
And I do fear them.

CAESAR
What can be avoided

Whose end is purposed by the mighty gods?
Yet Caesar shall go forth; for these predictions
Are to the world in general as to Caesar.

CALPHURNIA
When beggars die there are no comets seen; [30]

The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.

CAESAR
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear, [35]

Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.
Enter Servant.

What say the augurers?

SERVANT

They would not have you to stir forth today.
Plucking the entrails of an offering forth
They could not find a heart within the beast. [40]

CAESAR
The gods do this in shame of cowardice.
Caesar should be a beast without a heart

If he should stay at home today for fear.
No, Caesar shall not. Danger knows full well
That Caesar is more dangerous than he. [45]

We are two lions littered in one day,