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Most high, most mighty, and most puissant Caesar

Metellus, kneeling
Most high, most mighty, and most puissant Caesar,Anaphora
Metellus Cimber throws before thy seat
An humble heart.Synecdoche
Caesar
I must prevent thee, Cimber.
These couchings and these lowly courtesies
Might fire the blood of ordinary menSynecdoche
And turn preordinance and first decree
Into the law of children. Be not fond
To think that Caesar bears such rebel blood
That will be thawed from the true quality
With that which melteth fools—I mean sweet words,
Low-crookèd curtsies, and base spaniel fawning.Synecdoche & Metaphor

But I am constant as the northern star,
Of whose true-fix'd and resting quality
There is no fellow in the firmament

Thy brother by decree is banishèd.
If thou dost bend and pray and fawn for him,
I spurn thee like a cur out of my way.Simile
Know: Caesar doth not wrong, nor without cause
Will he be satisfied.
Metellus
Is there no voice more worthy than my own
To sound more sweetly in great Caesar’s earSynecdoche

For the repealing of my banished brother?
Brutus, kneeling
I kiss thy hand, but not in flattery, Caesar,
Desiring thee that Publius Cimber may
Have an immediate freedom of repeal.
Caesar
What, Brutus?
Cassius, kneeling
Pardon, Caesar; Caesar, pardon!Chiasmus
As low as to thy foot doth Cassius fall
To beg enfranchisement for Publius Cimber.
Caesar
I could be well mov'd, if I were as you;
If I could pray to move, prayers would move me;
But I am constant as the northern star,
Of whose true-fix'd and resting quality
There is no fellow in the firmament.Simile & Alliteration

The skies are painted with unnumb'red sparks,
They are all fire, and every one doth shine;
But there's but one in all doth hold his place.
So in the world: 'tis furnish'd well with men,
And men are flesh and blood, and apprehensive;
Yet in the number I do know but one
That unassailable holds on his rank,
Unshak'd of motion; and that I am he,
Let me a little show it, even in this—Analogy

That I was constant Cimber should be banish'd,
And constant do remain to keep him so.