This page contains the original text of Act 1 of Julius Caesar.
Shakespeare’s original Julius Caesar text is extremely long, so
we’ve split the text into one Act per page. All Acts are listed
on the Julius Caesar text page, or linked to from the bottom of
this page.  ACT 1, SCENE 1. Rome. A street.  Enter FLAVIUS,
MARULLUS, and certain Commoners Hence! home, you idle creatures
get you home: Is this a holiday? what! know you not, Being
mechanical, you ought not walk Upon a labouring day without the
sign Of your profession? Speak, what trade art thou?  First
Commoner Why, sir, a carpenter.  Where is thy leather apron and
thy rule? What dost thou with thy best apparel on? You, sir,
what trade are you?  Second Commoner as you would say, a
cobbler.  But what trade art thou? answer me directly.  Second
Commoner   Second Commoner if you be out, sir, I can mend you.
Second Commoner Why, sir, cobble you.  Thou art a cobbler, art
thou?  Second Commoner meddle with no tradesman’s matters, nor
women’s to old shoes; whe