Post by mousemaylikecheese on Jan 22, 2009 16:43:13 GMT -5
ANTONY: Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears!
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil men do lives after them
The good is oft interred with their bones
So let it be with Caesar. The noble Antony
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious
If it were so, it was a grievous fault
And grievously hath Caesar answered 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 at 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 ambitous?
When the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious
And Brutus is an honest man
You all did see that on the Lupercal
I thrice presented him a crown
Which he did thrice refuse. Was this ambition?
Yet Brutus says he was ambitous
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 judgement, thou art fled to brutish beast
And men have lost their reason! Bear with me
For my heart lies in the coffin there with Caesar
And I must pause here till it come back to me.
(the smiley means that I'm not sure about the wording of this line, and I may have paraphrased it. I'm memorizing this to surprise Hamlet)
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil men do lives after them
The good is oft interred with their bones
So let it be with Caesar. The noble Antony
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious
If it were so, it was a grievous fault
And grievously hath Caesar answered 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 at 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 ambitous?
When the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious
And Brutus is an honest man
You all did see that on the Lupercal
I thrice presented him a crown
Which he did thrice refuse. Was this ambition?
Yet Brutus says he was ambitous
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 judgement, thou art fled to brutish beast
And men have lost their reason! Bear with me
For my heart lies in the coffin there with Caesar
And I must pause here till it come back to me.
(the smiley means that I'm not sure about the wording of this line, and I may have paraphrased it. I'm memorizing this to surprise Hamlet)
