Cas. And you are come in very happy time, i
To bear my greeting to the senators
And tell them that I will not come to-day :
Cannot, is false, and that I dare not, falser :
I will not come to-day : tell them so, Decius.
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Cal, Say be is sick.
Cas. Shall Caesar send a lie ?

Have I in conquest stretch'd mine arm so far,
To be afeard to tell graybeards the truth ?
Decius, go tell them C%sar will not come.
Dec. Most mighty Csesar, let me know some
cause,
Lest I be laugh'd at when I tell them sa 70

C<es. The cause is in my will : I will not come ;
That is enough to satisfy the senate.
But for your private satisfaction.
Because I love you, I will let you know :
Calpurnia here, my wife, stays me at home :
She dreamt to-night she saw my statue,
Which like a fountain with an hundred spouts
Did run pure blood, and many lusty Romans
Came smiling, and did bathe :heir hands in it :
And these docs she apply for warnings and portents
And evils imminent ; and on her knee Sa

Hath begg'd that I will stay at home to-day.
D<c. This dream is all amiss interpreted ;
It was a vision fair and fortunate :
Your statue spouting blood in many pipes,
In which so many smiling Romans bathed.
Signifies that from you great Rome shall suck
Reviving blood, and that great men shall press
For tinctures, stains, relics and cognizance.
