So soon as that spare Cassius....
. . . . .
I rather tell thee what it is to be fear’d
Than what I fear: for always, I am Caesar.”[[77]]
Yet immediately thereafter he wishes Antony to give him his true opinion of Cassius. What for?
Still, in spite of his outwardly expressed contempt of the omens, Pescetti’s Caesar yields, just as does Shakespeare’s, when the crafty Decimus plays on his vanity. In the presence of the conspirators he soliloquizes:
“Chi da consigli governar si lascia
Delle donne, più d’esse è vano, e stolto;
Tuttavia forza è, ch’oggi condescenda
Al voler della mia, s’aver vuò pace,