Read the following passage from William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.

CAESAR
And you are come in very happy time,
To beat my greeting to the senators
And tell them that I will not come today:
Cannot, is false, and that I dare not, falser:
I will not come today: tell them so, Decius.

CALPURNIA
Say he is sick.

CAESAR
Shall Caesar send a lie?
Have I in conquest stretch’d mine arm so far,
To be afraid to tell graybeards the truth?
Decius, go tell them Caesar will not come.

This passage shows

A that Caesar is too sick to go to work.

B that Calpurnia is going to betra

Question

Read the following passage from William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. 

CAESAR
And you are come in very happy time,
To beat my greeting to the senators
And tell them that I will not come today:
Cannot, is false, and that I dare not, falser:
I will not come today: tell them so, Decius.

CALPURNIA
Say he is sick.

CAESAR
Shall Caesar send a lie?
Have I in conquest stretch’d mine arm so far,
To be afraid to tell graybeards the truth?
Decius, go tell them Caesar will not come.

This passage shows 


A that Caesar is too sick to go to work. 

B that Calpurnia is going to betra

anonymous · Answer

what does the last word in B say?

zepp · Answer

What is betra? xD

zepp · Answer

betray Caesar?

anonymous · Answer

Never heard of that. However I've read this play the past year and Calpurnia wanted him to stay home and say that he was sick as an excuse. She had been seeing bad dreams of Caesar dying and the guy who was with him manipulated Caesar into going to the senate, to later die there.

anonymous · Answer

yes and thanks

zepp · Answer

^ very true, Caesar died under the knives of the senators, Caesar isn't really sick.

anonymous · Answer

Hopefully that helps, had to read that for Eng. II this year.

zepp · Answer

He pretends he's sick because he know what's coming.

anonymous · Answer

Yep.