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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