Listen to Shakespeare's titular character converse with Mark Antony about Cassius's loyalty

Name: Listen to Shakespeare's titular character converse with Mark Antony about Cassius's loyalty
Uploaded: 2020-02-24T08:00:00
Duration: 36 s
Description: 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 .

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: