...— Which, like dumb mouths, do ope their ruby lips, To beg the voice and utterance of my tongue, — ful mother of two goodly sons; And, which was strange,...distinguish'd but by names. That very hour, and in the self-sa 596 And dreadful objects so familiar, That mothers shall but smile when they behold Their infants quarter...

...prophesying a civil war in which the normal significations of laughing and weeping will break down: "Mothers shall but smile when they behold / Their...with the hands of war, / All pity choked with custom ..." (3.1.269-71). And when he finally does start to weep, it is weeping at the sight of his servant...

...prophesy (Which like dumb mouths do ope their ruby lips To beg the voice and utterance of my tongue) A curse shall light upon the limbs of men; Domestic fury and fierce civil strife . . . And Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge . . . Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice...