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The ides

 
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Who is it in the press that calls on me?
I hear a tongue, shriller than all the music,
Cry ‘Caesar!’ Speak; Caesar is turn’d to hear.

Soothsayer
Beware the ides of March.

CAESAR
What man is that?

BRUTUS
A soothsayer bids you beware the ides of March.

CAESAR
Set him before me; let me see his face.

CASSIUS
Fellow, come from the throng; look upon Caesar.

CAESAR
What say’st thou to me now? speak once again.

Soothsayer
Beware the ides of March.

CAESAR
He is a dreamer; let us leave him: pass.

Act I, Scene 2
Julius Caesar

William Shakespeare
1564-1616 

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High heights

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Dog winds

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“Republicans spending $42 million on inauguration while troops die in unarmored Humvees”
“Bush extravagance exceeds any reason during tough economic times”
“Fat cats get their $42 million inauguration party, ordinary Americans get the shaft”
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Wilde, Oscar . Salome : A Tragedy in One Act

Pages 11 – 15

THE YOUNG SYRIAN

     Will you be seated, Princess.

THE PAGE OF HERODIAS

     Why do you speak to her? Oh! something terrible will happen. Why do you look at her?
SALOME

     How good to see the moon! She is like a little piece of money, a little silver flower. She is cold and chaste. I am sure she is a virgin. She has the beauty of a virgin. Yes, she is a virgin. She has never defiled herself. She has never abandoned herself to men, like the other goddesses.
THE VOICE OF IOKANAAN

     Behold! the Lord hath come. The Son of Man is at hand. The centaurs have hidden themselves in the rivers, and the nymphs have left the rivers, and are lying beneath the leaves in the forests.
SALOME

     Who was that who cried out?
SECOND SOLDIER

     The prophet, Princess.
SALOME

     Ah, the prophet! He of whom the Tetrarch is afraid?

 

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SECOND SOLDIER

     We know nothing of that, Princess. It was the prophet Iokanaan who cried out.
THE YOUNG SYRIAN

     Is it your pleasure that I bid them bring your litter, Princess? The night is fair in the garden.
SALOME

     He says terrible things about my mother, does he not?
SECOND SOLDIER

     We never understand what he says, Princess.
SALOME

     Yes; he says terrible things about her.

[Enter a Slave.]

THE SLAVE

     Princess, the Tetrarch prays you to return to the feast.
SALOME

     I will not return.
THE YOUNG SYRIAN

     Pardon me, Princess, but if you return not some misfortune may happen.
SALOME

     Is he an old man, this prophet?

 

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THE YOUNG SYRIAN

     Princess, it were better to return. Suffer me to lead you in.
SALOME

     This prophet . . . is he an old man?
FIRST SOLDIER

     No, Princess, he is quite young.
SECOND SOLDIER

     One cannot be sure. There are those who say that he is Elias.
SALOME

     Who is Elias?
SECOND SOLDIER

     A prophet of this country in bygone days, Princess.
THE SLAVE

     What answer may I give the Tetrarch from the Princess?
THE VOICE OF IOKANAAN

     Rejoice not, O land of Palestine, because the rod of him who smote thee is broken. For from the seed of the serpent shall come a basilisk, and that which is born of it shall devour the birds.

 

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SALOME

     What a strange voice! I would speak with him.
FIRST SOLDIER

     I fear it may not be, Princess. The Tetrarch does not suffer any one to speak with him. He has even forbidden the high priest to speak with him.
SALOME

     I desire to speak with him.
FIRST SOLDIER

     It is impossible, Princess.
SALOME

     I will speak with him.
THE YOUNG SYRIAN

     Would it not be better to return to the banquet?
SALOME

     Bring forth this prophet.

[Exit the Slave.]

FIRST SOLDIER

     We dare not, Princess.
SALOME

      [Approaching the cistern and looking down into

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it.]

     How black it is, down there! It must be terrible to be in so black a hole! It is like a tomb . . . . [To the soldiers.]
Did you not hear me? Bring out the prophet. I would look on him.
SECOND SOLDIER

     Princess, I beg you, do not require this of us.
SALOME

     You are making me wait upon your pleasure.
FIRST SOLDIER

     Princess, our lives belong to you, but we cannot do what you have asked of us. And indeed, it is not of us that you should ask this thing.
SALOME

      [Looking at the young Syrian.]

     Ah!
THE PAGE OF HERODIAS

     Oh! what is going to happen? I am sure that something terrible will happen.
SALOME

      [Going up to the young Syrian.]

     Thou wilt do this thing for me, wilt. thou not, Narraboth? Thou wilt do this thing for me. I have ever been kind towards thee. Thou wilt do it for me. I would but look at him, this strange prophet. Men have talked so much of him. Often I have heard the Tetrarch talk of him. I think he is afraid of

 

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him, the Tetrarch. Art thou, even thou, also afraid of him, Narraboth?