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,