Listen to Shakespeare's titular character converse with Mark Antony about Cassius's loyalty
Julius Caesar muses to Mark Antony about Cassius, “Let me have men about me that are fat,” in Act I, scene 2, of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.
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Transcript
CAESAR: Antonius!
ANTONY: Caesar?
CAESAR: Let me have men about me that are fat;
Sleek-headed men and such as sleep o'nights:
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;
He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.
ANTONY: Fear him not, Caesar; he's not dangerous;
He is a noble Roman, and well given.
CAESAR: Would he were fatter! But I fear him not:
ANTONY: Caesar?
CAESAR: Let me have men about me that are fat;
Sleek-headed men and such as sleep o'nights:
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;
He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.
ANTONY: Fear him not, Caesar; he's not dangerous;
He is a noble Roman, and well given.
CAESAR: Would he were fatter! But I fear him not:
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