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my S hakespeare Play Menu ! Search Bahati Emily Nyaruba Scene Summary Videos (9) ! Glossed Words ON Notebook Act 1, Scene 1 Scene Summary [Enter two tribunes Flavius, Marullus, and several Commoners, including a Carpenter and a Cobbler.] Flavius Hence! Home, you idle creatures get you home: 1 Go Is this a holiday? What, know you not, 2 Being mechanical, you ought not walk 3 working class go about Upon a laboring day without the sign 4 work tools Of your profession? Speak, what trade art thou? 5 Carpenter Why, sir, a carpenter. 6 Marullus Where is thy leather apron and thy rule? 7 What dost thou with thy best apparel on? — 8 [To Cobbler] You, sir, what trade are you? 9 Cobbler Truly, sir, in respect of a fine workman, I am but, 10 comparison to as you would say, a cobbler. 11 unskilled worker Marullus But what trade art thou? Answer me directly. 12 Cobbler A trade, sir, that, I hope, I may use with a safe 13 conscience; which is, indeed, sir, a mender of bad soles. 14 Marullus What trade, thou knave? Thou naughty knave, what trade? 15 Cobbler Actor Bios Act 1, Scene 1 Act 1, Scene 2 Nay, I beseech you, sir, be not out with me: yet, 16 angry if you be out, sir, I can mend you. 17 Marullus What mean’st thou by that? Mend me, thou saucy fellow! 18 Cobbler Why, sir, cobble you. 19 Flavius Thou art a cobbler, art thou? 20 shoe mender Cobbler Truly, sir, all that I live by is with the awl. I meddle 21 with no tradesman's matters, nor women’s matters, but 22 with all. I am, indeed, sir, a surgeon to old shoes; when 23 they are in great danger I recover them. As proper men 24 decent as ever trod upon neat's leather have gone upon my 25 cow's handiwork. 26 Flavius But wherefore art not in thy shop today? 27 Why dost thou lead these men about the streets? 28 Cobbler Truly, sir, to wear out their shoes, to get myself 29 into more work. But, indeed, sir, we make holiday, to see 30 Caesar and to rejoice in his triumph. 31 Marullus Wherefore rejoice? What conquest brings he home? 32 plunder What tributaries follow him to Rome, 33 prisoners To grace in captive bonds his chariot-wheels? 34 You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things! 35 O you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome, 36 Knew you not Pompey? Many a time and oft 37 often Have you climb'd up to walls and battlements, 38 To towers and windows, yea, to chimney-tops, 39 Your infants in your arms, and there have sat 40 The livelong day, with patient expectation, 41 To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome. 42 And when you saw his chariot but appear, 43 Have you not made an universal shout, 44 That Tiber trembled underneath her banks, 45 (Rome's river) To hear the replication of your sounds 46 echo Made in her concave shores? 47 And do you now put on your best attire? 48 And do you now cull out a holiday? 49 create And do you now strew flowers in his way 50 That comes in triumph over Pompey's blood? 51 son Be gone! 52 Run to your houses, fall upon your knees, 53 Pray to the gods to intermit the plague 54 block That needs must light on this ingratitude. 55 fall Flavius Go, go, good countrymen, and for this fault, 56 Assemble all the poor men of your sort. 57 class Draw them to Tiber banks, and weep your tears 58 Into the channel, till the lowest stream 59 Do kiss the most exalted shores of all. 60 [Exit all the Commoners.] See whe’er their basest mettle be not moved; 61 They vanish tongue-tied in their guiltiness. 62 Go you down that way towards the Capitol; 63 This way will I. Disrobe the images, 64 Caesar's statues If you do find them decked with ceremonies. 65 honorary adornments Marullus May we do so? 66 You know it is the feast of Lupercal. 67 Flavius It is no matter. Let no images 68 Be hung with Caesar's trophies. I'll about, 69 And drive away the vulgar from the streets. 70 plebeians So do you too, where you perceive them thick. 71 These growing feathers plucked from Caesar's wing 72 Will make him fly an ordinary pitch, 73 Who else would soar above the view of men 74 And keep us all in servile fearfulness. 75 [Exit.]  Character Interview: Marullus and the Cobbler Reading Comprehension Quiz for Act 1, Scene 1 !"#$%&'(&)((*+%&,+#--$((. myShakespeare Features About Blog Sign In Contact Us For Teachers FAQ © 2024 myShakespeare. All rights reserved. Privacy Policy Terms of Service Play Menu Resources Using myShakespeare Direct Links to Videos Animated Summary Quick Study Shakespeare's Life Elizabethan Theater Roman Republic Caesar's Rise to Power Actor Bios Act 1 Scene 1 Scene 2 Scene 3 Act 2 Scene 1 Portia's Song Scene 2 Scene 3 Soothsayer Song Scene 4 Act 3 Scene 1 Cassius' Song Scene 2 Scene 3 Act 4 Scene 1 Scene 2 Caesar's Ghost Act 5 Scene 1 Scene 2 Scene 3 Scene 4 Scene 5 Notebook Scene Summary Videos (9)