_Casca._ I can as well be hang'd as tell the manner of it: it was mere foolery; I did not mark it. I saw Mark Antony[2926] 235 offer him a crown: yet 'twas not a crown neither, 'twas one of these coronets: and, as I told you, he put it by once: but for all that, to my thinking, he would fain have had it. Then he offered it to him again; then he put it by again: but, to my thinking, he was very loath to lay his fingers off it. 240 And then he offered it the third time; he put it the third time by: and still as he refused it, the rabblement hooted[2927] and clapped their chopped hands and threw up their sweaty[2928] night-caps and uttered such a deal of stinking breath because Cæsar refused the crown, that it had almost choked 245 Cæsar; for he swounded and fell down at it: and for mine[2929] own part, I durst not laugh, for fear of opening my lips and receiving the bad air. _Cas._ But, soft, I pray you: what, did Cæsar swound?[2930] _Casca._ He fell down in the market-place and foamed at 250 mouth and was speechless. _Bru._'Tis very like: he hath the falling-sickness.[2931] _Cas._ No, Cæsar hath it not; but you, and I, And honest Casca, we have the falling-sickness. _Casca._ I know not what you mean by that, but I am 255 sure Cæsar fell down. If the tag-rag people did not clap him and hiss him according as he pleased and displeased them, as they use to do the players in the theatre, I am no[2932] true man. _Bru._ What said he when he came unto himself? 260 _Casca._ Marry, before he fell down, when he perceived the common herd was glad he refused the crown, he plucked me ope his doublet and offered them his throat to cut. An[2933] I had been a man of any occupation, if I would not have taken him at a word, I would I might go to hell among the[2934] 265 rogues. And so he fell. When he came to himself again, he said, if he had done or said any thing amiss, he desired their worships to think it was his infirmity. Three or four wenches, where I stood, cried 'Alas, good soul!' and forgave him with all their hearts: but there's no heed to be[2935] 270 taken of them; if Cæsar had stabbed their mothers, they[2936] would have done no less. _Bru._ And after that, he came, thus sad, away?[2937] _Casca._ Ay. _Cas._ Did Cicero say any thing? 275 _Casca._ Ay, he spoke Greek. _Cas._ To what effect?