Hurry! read the excerpt from act 2, scene 1, of julius caesar. [portia.] it will not let you eat, nor talk, nor sleep, and could it work so much upon your shape as it hath much prevailed on your condition, i should not know you brutus. dear my lord, make me acquainted with your cause of grief. brutus. i am not well in health, and that is all. portia. brutus is wise, and, were he not in health, he would embrace the means to come by it. . [portia.] you have some sick offence within your mind which by the right and virtue of my place, i ought to know of. what tone does portia use when speaking to brutus? earnest bitter flattering arrogant