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Fates, we will know your pleasures

Brutus
Fates, we will know your pleasures.Personification
That we shall die, we know, 'tis but the time,
And drawing days out, that men stand upon.
Casca
Why, he that cuts off twenty years of life
Cuts off so many years of fearing death.
Brutus
Grant that, and then is death a benefit.
So are we Caesar's friends, that have abridged
His time of fearing death. Stoop, Romans, stoop,
And let us bathe our hands in Caesar's blood
Up to the elbows and besmear our swords.
Then walk we forth, even to the marketplace,
And, waving our red weapons o'er our heads,
Let's all cry “Peace, freedom, and liberty!”
Cassius
Stoop then, and wash.
They smear their hands and swords with Caesar's blood.
How many ages hence
Shall this our lofty scene be acted over
In states unborn and accents yet unknown!
Brutus
How many times shall Caesar bleed in sport,
That now on Pompey's basis lies along
No worthier than the dust!
Cassius
So oft as that shall be,
So often shall the knot of us be called
The men that gave their country liberty.
Decius
What, shall we forth?
Cassius
Ay, every man away.
Brutus shall lead, and we will grace his heels
With the most boldest and best hearts of Rome.

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Act 3
Scene 1
Line 109

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