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QUOTATIONS WORKSHEET Act I

Julius Caesar Identify the speaker, paraphrase, and explain the significance of each of the following quotations from Julius Caesar.

1. These growing feathers plucked from Caesar's wing Will make him fly an ordinary pitch, Who else would soar above the view of men And keep us all in servile fearfulness. (I.i,77-80)

2. Beware the Ides of March. (I.ii,18)

3. But let not therefore my good friends be grieved -- Among which number, Cassius, be you one -- Nor construe any further my neglect Than that poor Brutus, with himself at war, Forgets the shows of love to other men. (I.ii,43-47)

4. I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself. I was born free as Caesar; so were you. (I.ii,95-97)

5. Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much, such men are dangerous. (I.ii,194-195)

6. And after this let Caesar seat him sure, For we will shake him, or worse days endure. (I.ii,325-326)

7. For I believe they are portentous things Unto the climate that they point upon. (I.iii,31-32)

8. But life, being weary of these worldly bars, Never lacks power to dismiss itself. (I.iii,96-97)

9. Three parts of him Is ours already, and the man entire Upon the next encounter yields him ours. (I.iii,154-156)

10. A line of your choice from Act I.