The Textbr br JULIUS CAESERbr br ACT Ibr br SCENE I. Rome. A street.br br Enter FLAVIUS, MARULLUS, and certain Commonersbr FLAVIUSbr Hence! home, you idle creatures get you home:br Is this a holiday? what! know you not,br Being mechanical, you ought not walkbr Upon a labouring day without the signbr Of your profession? Speak, what trade art thou?br First Commonerbr Why, sir, a carpenter.br MARULLUSbr Where is thy leather apron and thy rule?br What dost thou with thy best apparel on?br You, sir, what trade are you?br Second Commonerbr Truly, sir, in respect of a fine workman, I am but,br as you would say, a cobbler.br MARULLUSbr But what trade art thou? answer me directly.br Second Commonerbr A trade, sir, that, I hope, I may use with a safebr conscience; which is, indeed, sir, a mender of bad soles.br br The Scenebr The common people had gathered to welcome Caeser. The common citizens and artisans of Rome have come out in the streets to see Caeser pass and to rejoice his triumphs. Artisans means – common people. The tribunes, Flavius and Marullus, who do have no sympathy for Caeser, rebuke the people most vehemently chase them home. They drive them away from the street, for they do not want Caeser to be shown any mark of honour. The crowd disperses “tongue tied in their guiltiness”. Flavius goes away to disrobe the images of Caeser wherever he finds them “decked with ceremonies”.