Julius Caesar Duet.

Cicero Good evening Casca: brought you Caesar home?
Why are you so breathless? and why stare you so?

Casca Are you not mov'd, when all the sway of earth
Shakes like a thing unfirm? O Cicero,
I have seen tempests, when the scolding winds
Have riv'd the knotty oaks; I have seen
Th' ambitious ocean swell and rage and foam,
To be exalted with the threat'ning clouds:
But never till tonight, never till now,
Did I go through a tempest dropping fire.
Either there is a civil strife in heaven,
Or else the world, too saucy with the gods,
Incenses them to send destruction.

Cicero Why, saw you anything more wonderful?

Casca A common slave, you know him well by sight,
Held up his hand which did flame and burn
Like twenty torches join'd; and yet his hand,
Not sensible of fire, remain'd unscorch'd.
Besides (I ha'not since put up my sword)
Against the Capitol I met a lion,
Who glazed upon me,and went surly by,
Without annoying me. And there were drawn
Upon a heap a hundred ghastly women,
Transformed with their fear, who swore they saw
Men, all in fire, walk up and down the streets.
And yesterday the bird of night did sit,
Even at noonday, upon the market place,
Hooting and shrieking. When these prodigies
Do so conjointly meet, let not men say,
'There are their reasons, they are natural'
For I believe, they are portentous things
Unto the climate that they point upon.

Cicero Indeed, it is a strange-disposed time:
But men may construe things, after their fashion,
Clean from the purpose of the things themselves.
Comes Caesar to the Capitol tommorow?

Casca He doth; for he bid Antonius
Send word to you he would be there tommorow.

Cicero Good night then, Casca: this disturbed sky
Is not to walk in.

Casca Farewell, Cicero
[Exit Cicero]



This passage has been taken from Act one, Scene three, lines 1-40, where Cicero and Casca have met outside during the tempest. I am planning on acting this part out with Kayleigh.
Casca is very afraid of what he has seen, and he thinks that the gods are angry with them all, Cicero is not as worried, and they are discussing what all the bad omens mean. This passage is signifigant, because you see how the romans feel about what is going on around them. You can see that they are afraid of omens, because it means the gods are not happy, and they want to make the gods happy again.