PORTIA.--Prithee, listen well;

I heard a bustling rumour, like a fray,

And the wind brings it from the Capitol.

Then, after the conversation with the soothsayer:

"I must go in.--Ay me, how weak a thing

The heart of woman is! O Brutus,

The heavens speed thee in thine enterprise!--

Sure, the boy heard me.--Brutus hath a suit,

That Cæsar will not grant--O, I grow faint:--

Run, Lucius, and commend me to my lord;