Open Source Shakespeare

Speeches (Lines) for Second Citizen
in "Julius Caesar"

Total: 18

# Act, Scene, Line
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Speech text

1

III,2,1540

First Citizen. I will hear Brutus speak.

Second Citizen. I will hear Cassius; and compare their reasons,
When severally we hear them rendered.
[Exit CASSIUS, with some of the Citizens. BRUTUS
goes into the pulpit]


2

III,2,1585

First Citizen. Bring him with triumph home unto his house.

Second Citizen. Give him a statue with his ancestors.


3

III,2,1592

Brutus. My countrymen,—

Second Citizen. Peace, silence! Brutus speaks.


4

III,2,1614

Third Citizen. Nay, that's certain:
We are blest that Rome is rid of him.

Second Citizen. Peace! let us hear what Antony can say.


5

III,2,1653

First Citizen. Methinks there is much reason in his sayings.

Second Citizen. If thou consider rightly of the matter,
Caesar has had great wrong.


6

III,2,1660

First Citizen. If it be found so, some will dear abide it.

Second Citizen. Poor soul! his eyes are red as fire with weeping.


7

III,2,1700

All. The will! the testament!

Second Citizen. They were villains, murderers: the will! read the will.


8

III,2,1706

Several Citizens. Come down.

Second Citizen. Descend.


9

III,2,1711

First Citizen. Stand from the hearse, stand from the body.

Second Citizen. Room for Antony, most noble Antony.


10

III,2,1744

First Citizen. O piteous spectacle!

Second Citizen. O noble Caesar!


11

III,2,1748

First Citizen. O most bloody sight!

Second Citizen. We will be revenged.


12

III,2,1753

First Citizen. Peace there! hear the noble Antony.

Second Citizen. We'll hear him, we'll follow him, we'll die with him.


13

III,2,1788

Antony. Here is the will, and under Caesar's seal.
To every Roman citizen he gives,
To every several man, seventy-five drachmas.

Second Citizen. Most noble Caesar! We'll revenge his death.


14

III,2,1802

First Citizen. Never, never. Come, away, away!
We'll burn his body in the holy place,
And with the brands fire the traitors' houses.
Take up the body.

Second Citizen. Go fetch fire.


15

III,3,1828

First Citizen. What is your name?

Second Citizen. Whither are you going?


16

III,3,1831

Fourth Citizen. Are you a married man or a bachelor?

Second Citizen. Answer every man directly.


17

III,3,1839

Cinna the Poet. What is my name? Whither am I going? Where do I
dwell? Am I a married man or a bachelor? Then, to
answer every man directly and briefly, wisely and
truly: wisely I say, I am a bachelor.

Second Citizen. That's as much as to say, they are fools that marry:
you'll bear me a bang for that, I fear. Proceed; directly.


18

III,3,1844

Cinna the Poet. As a friend.

Second Citizen. That matter is answered directly.