Cassius. And why should Cæsar be a tyrant then?

Poor man! I know he would not be a wolf,

105But that he sees the Romans are but sheep:

He were no lion, were not Romans hinds.

Those that with haste will make a mighty fire

Begin it with weak straws:[236] what trash is Rome,

What rubbish and what offal, when it serves

110For the base matter to illuminate

So vile a thing as Cæsar! But, O grief,