Senators, Citizens, Guards, Attendants, &c.

SCENE: Rome; the neighborhood of Sardis; the neighborhood of Philippi.]

THE TRAGEDIE OF

JULIUS CESAR

Actus Primus.

Scœna Prima.

[Rome. A street.]

Enter Flavius, Murellus, and certaine Commoners over the Stage.

Flavius.

HENCE: home you idle Creatures, get you home:

Is this a Holiday? What, know you not

(Being Mechanicall) you ought not walke
Upon a labouring day, without the signe
Of your Profession? Speake, what Trade art thou?
Car. [First Com.] Why Sir, a Carpenter.
Mur. Where is thy Leather Apron, and thy Rule?
What dost thou with thy best Apparrell on?
You sir, what Trade are you?

Cobl. [Sec. Com.] Truely Sir, in respect of a fine Workman, I am | but as you would say, a Cobler.

Mur. But what Trade art thou? Answer me directly. Cob. A Trade Sir, that I hope I may use, with a safe

2. Murellus: Marullus, and so throughout-THEOBALD.