the Plebeians_.]

[Note 5: _Enter_ CITIZENS | Ff omit.]

[Note 6, 13: Whither F3 F4 | Whether F1 F2.]

[Note 1: "There was one of Caesar's friends called Cinna, that
had a marvellous strange and terrible dream the night before.
He dreamed that Caesar bad him to supper, and that he refused
and would not go: then that Caesar took him by the hand, and
led him against his will. Now Cinna, hearing at that time that
they burnt Caesar's body in the market-place, notwithstanding
that he feared his dream, and had an ague on him besides, he
went into the market-place to honour his funerals. When he
came thither, one of the mean sort asked him what his name
was? He was straight called by his name. The first man told it
to another, and that other unto another, so that it ran
straight through them all, that he was one of them that
murthered Caesar: (for indeed one of the traitors to Caesar was
also called Cinna as himself) wherefore taking him for Cinna
the murtherer, they fell upon him with such fury that they
presently dispatched him in the market-place."--Plutarch,
_Julius Caesar_.--/to-night:/ last night. So in II, ii, 76, and
_The Merchant of Venice_, II, v, 18.]

[Note 2: Things that forbode evil fortune burden my
imagination.]

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1 CITIZEN. Ay, and briefly. 10

4 CITIZEN. Ay, and wisely.

3 CITIZEN. Ay, and truly, you were best.

CINNA. What is my name? Whither am I going? Where do I
dwell? Am I a married man or a bachelor? Then, to answer
every man directly and briefly, wisely and truly: wisely I
say, I am a bachelor. 16

2 CITIZEN. That's as much as to say, they are fools that
marry: you'll bear me a bang for that, I fear. Proceed;
directly.

CINNA. Directly, I am going to Caesar's funeral. 20

1 CITIZEN. As a friend or an enemy?

CINNA. As a friend.

2 CITIZEN. That matter is answered directly.

4 CITIZEN. For your dwelling, briefly.

CINNA. Briefly, I dwell by the Capitol. 25

3 CITIZEN. Your name, sir, truly.

CINNA. Truly, my name is Cinna.

1 CITIZEN. Tear him to pieces; he's a conspirator.

CINNA. I am Cinna the poet, I am Cinna the poet. 29

4 CITIZEN. Tear him for his bad verses, tear him for his bad
verses.

CINNA. I am not Cinna the conspirator.

4 CITIZEN. It is no matter, his name's Cinna; pl