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So to most noble Caesar.

CAESAR
Bid them prepare within.
I am to blame to be thus waited for.
Now, Cinna. Now, Metellus. What, Trebonius! [120]
I have an hour’s talk in store for you;

Remember that you call on me today.
Be near me, that I may remember you.

TREBONIUS
Caesar, I will. (Aside) And so near will I be
That your best friends shall wish I had been further. [125]

CAESAR

Good friends, go in, and taste some wine with me,
And we, like friends, will straightway go together.

BRUTUS
(aside)
That every like is not the same, O Caesar!
The heart of Brutus yearns to think upon.

Exeunt.

Scene III IT

Enter Artemidorus, reading a paper.

ARTEMIDORUS
‘Caesar, beware of Brutus. Take heed of Cassius. Come not near Casca. Have

an eye to Cinna. Trust not Trebonius. Mark well Metellus Cimber. Decius
Brutus loves thee not. Thou hast wronged Caius Ligarius. There is but one
mind in all these men, and it is bent against Caesar. [5] If thou beest not
immortal, look about you. Security gives way to conspiracy. The mighty gods

defend thee!
Thy lover,
Artemidorus.’