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The sweet silvery sayings of Shakespeare on the softer sex
The sweet silvery sayings of Shakespeare on the softer sex Author:William Shakespeare Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: JULIUS CESAR. M. Brutus, Roman Conspirator. PORTIA, Wife to Brutus. Act II. Scene I. Portia. jRUTUS, my lord ! Brutus. Portia, what mean you ? W... more »herefore rise you now ? It is not for your health, thus to commit Your weak condition to the raw, cold morning. Portia. Nor for yours neither. You have ungently, Brutus, Stole from your bed. And yesternight, at supper, You suddenly rose, and walk'd about, Musing, and sighing, with your arms across ; And when I ask'd you what the matter was, You star'd upon me with ungentle looks: I urg'd you further : then you scratch'd your head, And too impatiently stamp'd with your foot: Yet I insisted, yet you answer'd not; But, with an angry wafture of your hand, Gave sign for me to leave you. So I did, Fearing to strengthen that impatience Which seem'd too much enkindled; and, withal, Hoping it was but an effect of humour, Which sometime hath his hour with every man. It will not let you eat, nor talk, nor sleep; And could it work so much upon your shape As it hath much prevail'd on your condition, I should not know you, Brutus. Dear my lord, Make me acquainted with your cause of grief. Brutus. I am not well in health, and that is all. Portia. Brutus is wise, and were he not in health, He would embrace the means to come by it. Brutus. Why, so I do.—Good Portia, go to bed. Portia. Is Brutus sick ? and is it physical To walk unbraced, and suck up the humours Of the dank morning ? What, is Brutus sick ? And will he steal out of his wholesome bed To dare the vile contagion of the night, And tempt the rheumy and unpurged air To add unto his sickness ? No, my Brutus : You have some sick offence within your mind, Which, by the right and virtue of my place, I ought to know of: And, upon my knees, I charm you, by m...« less