How I have thought of this and of these times,

165I shall recount hereafter; for this present,

165

I would not, so with love I might entreat you,[132]

Be any further mov'd. What you have said

I will consider; what you have to say

I will with patience hear, and find a time

170Both meet to hear and answer such high things.

170

Till then, my noble friend, chew[133] upon this:

Brutus had rather be a villager

Than to repute himself a son of Rome

21

21

Under these hard conditions as[134] this time

175Is like to lay upon us.

175

Cassius. I am glad that my weak words

Cassius.

Have struck but thus much show of fire[135] from Brutus.

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