From Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar”:
| First Citizen | Stay, ho! and let us hear Mark Antony. | ||
| Third Citizen | Let him go up into the public chair; | ||
| We’ll hear him. Noble Antony, go up. | |||
| ANTONY | For Brutus’ sake, I am beholding to you. | 65 | |
| Goes into the pulpit | |||
| Fourth Citizen | What does he say of Brutus? | ||
| Third Citizen | He says, for Brutus’ sake, | ||
| He finds himself beholding to us all. | |||
| Fourth Citizen | ‘Twere best he speak no harm of Brutus here. | ||
| First Citizen | This Caesar was a tyrant. | ||
| Third Citizen | Nay, that’s certain: | ||
| We are blest that Rome is rid of him. | 70 | ||
| Second Citizen | Peace! let us hear what Antony can say. | ||
| ANTONY | You gentle Romans,– | ||
| Citizens | Peace, ho! let us hear him. | ||
| ANTONY | Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; | ||
| I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. | |||
| The evil that men do lives after them; | 75 | ||
| The good is oft interred with their bones; | |||
| So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus | |||
| Hath told you Caesar was ambitious: | |||
| If it were so, it was a grievous fault, | |||
| And grievously hath Caesar answer’d it. | 80 | ||
| Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest– | |||
| For Brutus is an honourable man; | |||
| So are they all, all honourable men– | |||
| Come I to speak in Caesar’s funeral. | |||
| He was my friend, faithful and just to me: | 85 | ||
| But Brutus says he was ambitious; | |||
| And Brutus is an honourable man. | |||
| He hath brought many captives home to Rome | |||
| Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill: | |||
| Did this in Caesar seem ambitious? | 90 | ||
| When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: | |||
| Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: | |||
| Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; | |||
| And Brutus is an honourable man. | |||
| You all did see that on the Lupercal | 95 | ||
| I thrice presented him a kingly crown, | |||
| Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition? | |||
| Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; | |||
| And, sure, he is an honourable man. | |||
| I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, | 100 | ||
| But here I am to speak what I do know. | |||
| You all did love him once, not without cause: | |||
| What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him? | |||
| O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts, | |||
| And men have lost their reason. Bear with me; | 105 | ||
| My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, | |||
| And I must pause till it come back to me. | |||
| First Citizen | Methinks there is much reason in his sayings. | ||
| Second Citizen | If thou consider rightly of the matter, | ||
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