SparkNotes: Complete Text of Julius Caesar: Act II, Scene iii

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Act II, Scene iii:
A street near the Capitol.

[Enter Artemidorus, reading paper.]

ARTEMIDORUS:

"Caesar, beware of Brutus; take heed of Cassius; come

not near Casca; have an eye to Cinna; trust not Trebonius; mark

well Metellus Cimber; Decius Brutus loves thee not; thou hast

wrong'd Caius Ligarius. There is but one mind in all these men,

and it is bent against Caesar. If thou be'st not immortal, look

about you: security gives way to conspiracy. The mighty gods

defend thee!

Thy lover, Artemidorus."

Here will I stand till Caesar pass along,

And as a suitor will I give him this.

My heart laments that virtue cannot live

Out of the teeth of emulation.—

If thou read this, O Caesar, thou mayest live;

If not, the Fates with traitors do contrive.

[Exit.]

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