Antony speech
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 line 1 | Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears |
| line 2 | I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. |
| line 3 | The evil that men do lives after them, |
| line 4 | The good is oft interred with their bones; |
| line 5 | So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus |
| line 6 | Hath told you Caesar was ambitious; |
| line 7 | If it were so, it was a grievous fault, |
| line 8 | And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it. |
| line 9 | Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest- |
| line 10 | For Brutus is an honorable man; |
| line 11 | So are they all, all honorable men- |
| line 12 | Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral. |
| line 13 | He was my friend, faithful and just to me; |
| line 14 | But Brutus says he was ambitious, |
| line 15 | And Brutus is an honorable man. |
| line 16 | He hath brought many captives home to Rome, |
| line 17 | Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill. |
| line 18 | Did this in Caesar seem ambitious? |
| line 19 | When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept; |
| line 20 | Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: |
| line 21 | Yet Brutus says he was ambitious, |
| line 22 | And Brutus is an honorable man. |
| line 23 | You all did see that on the Lupercal |
| line 24 | I thrice presented him a kingly crown, |
| line 25 | Which he did thrice refuse. Was this ambition? |
| line 26 | Yet Brutus says he was ambitious |
| line 27 | And sure he is an honorable man. |
| line 28 | I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, |
| line 29 | But here I am to speak what I do know. |
| line 30 | You all did love him once, not without cause; |
| line 31 | What cause withholds you then to mourn for him? |
| line 32 | O judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts, |
| line 33 | And men have lost their reason. Bear with me; |
| line 34 | My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, |
| line 35 | And I must pause till it come back to me. |
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