AQUiLA MAGAZINE
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Friends , Romans , countrymen , lend me your ears ; I come to bury Caesar , not to praise him . The evil that men do lives after them ; 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 . 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 : 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 ? 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 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 , 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 ; My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar , And I must pause till it come back to me .
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