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<\/a><\/div>\nBe fearful of exalted rank, o soul.
And if you are unable to subdue
your aspirations \u2014 doubtingly pursue them
and with precautions. And the more you rise,
the more examining, the warier be.<\/p>\n
And when you are arrived at the supreme
height of your glory \u2014 a Caesar, as it were:
when you are become a man so widely famed:
then specially be wary \u2014 at such time
as you come out into the thoroughfares,
a noted ruler with great following:
if peradventure, from the multitude,
some friendly person, an Artemidorus,
bringing a paper, should press near to you
and rap out sharp \u201cRead this without delay;
herein are weighty matters touching you\u201d,
fail not to tarry; fail not to postpone
all talk or business; fail not to turn off
the different hangers-on who bow and scrape,
(you will attend to them in time); let even
the Senate wait; \u2014 leave all, and learn at once
the grave things written by Artemidorus.<\/p>\n
and, at no extra charge, Shakespeare\u2019s version of an event that echoes down to our day\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n