JULIUS CÆSAR.
ACT I.
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?
Sec. Com. Truly, sir, in respect of a fine workman, I am but, as you would say, a cobbler. 11
Mar. But what trade art thou? answer me directly.
Sec. Com. A trade, sir, that, I hope, I may use with a safe conscience; which is, indeed, sir, a mender of bad soles.
Mar. What trade, thou knave? thou naughty knave, what trade?
Sec. Com. Nay, I beseech you, sir, be not out with me.
yet, if you be out, sir, I can mend you.
Mar. What meanest thou by that? mend me, thou saucy fellow! 21
Sec. Com. Why, sir, cobble you.
Flav. Thou art a cobbler, art thou?
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