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FLAVIUS. Hence! home, you idle creatures, get you home!

Is this a holiday? What, know you not,

(Being mechanical) you ought not walk

Upon a labouring day, without the sign

Of your profession? Speak, what trade art thou?

–The Tragedy of Julius Caesar,
William Shakespeare

Why are the workers out in the streets?

What happens as a result of Flavius seeing the workers?

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They’re not working but celebrating — it’s a public festival (and the people are cheering Caesar’s return/victory), so the “mechanical” (working) folk are out in the streets instead of at their trades.

When Flavius sees them he angrily rebukes and disperses them (orders them home). He and Marullus then proceed to break up the celebration further by removing the decorations and garlands from Caesar’s statues to shame the crowd and lessen Caesar’s public honors.