*g) Julius Caesar Poem by Paolo Giuseppe Mazzarello

*g) Julius Caesar

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III,2
At the forum. Enter ANTONY, CASSIUS, BRUTUS, ARTEMIDORUS, a SOOTHSAYER.

ANTONY: Cassius, your hands killed Caesar but now they should do anything else.
CASSIUS: Caesar did not attend to the change of the times.
BRUTUS: I should lay my hands on power.
ANTONY: I shall speak to the people. I believe that they should miss their father.
BRUTUS: Please, I would like speaking before. (At the pulpit)Citizens, we killed the tyrant. We reclaim our parlamentary immunity.
ANTONY: (At the pulpit)Men and women beloved by Caesar, we want to put ourself in Caesar'splace against his killers.
ARTEMIDORUS: Soothsayer, Caesar did not read my schedule.
SOOTHSAYER: He knew its content. Here we have patients less clever.
ARTEMIDORUS: Caesar loved Cleopatra and they had a baby together. I did not talk about it.
SOOTHSAYER: Antony will do the same thing in Egypt. Octavius will do the rest all over the world.

*g) Julius Caesar
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Topic(s) of this poem: illness,prayers,prophecy
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In the picture: "A Sick Child Brought into the Temple of Aesculapius" by J.W.Waterhouse,1877.
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