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Julius Caesar: Scene I. Rome. A Street.

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From: Great Works of Literature
Date: 19920101
Author:Shakespeare, William

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Scene I. Rome. A Street.

Enter Flavius, Marullus, and certain Commoners.

Flav. Hence! home, you idle creatures, get you home: Is this a holiday! What! know you not, Being mechanical, you ought not walk Upon a labouring day without the sign Of your profession! Speak, what trade art thou? First Com. Why, sir, a carpenter. Mar. Where is thy leather apron, and thy rule? What dost thou with thy best apparel on? You, sir, what trade are you?

Second Com. Truly, sir, in respect of a fine workman, I am but, as you would say, a cobbler. ...

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