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The Forum.
[Enter BRUTUS and CASSIUS, and a throng of Citizens]
CITIZENS
We will be satisfied: let us be satisfied.
BRUTUS
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Then fol|low me,| and give | me au|dience
friends.
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Cassius | go you | into | the oth|er street,
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And part | the num|bers: \\
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Those that will | hear me speak,| let 'em / stay here;
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Those that | will fol|low Cas|sius, go | with him;
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And pub|lic reas|ons shall | be rendered
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Of Cae|sar's death.
FIRST CITIZEN
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I will | hear Brut|us speak.
SECOND CITIZEN
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I will hear | Cassius,| and com/pare their
| reasons,
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When seve|rally | we hear | them rend|ered.
[CASSIUS, with some of the Citizens. BRUTUS goes into the pulpit]
THIRD CITIZEN
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The nob|le Brutus | is as|cended:| silence.
BRUTUS
Be patient till the last.
Romans, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my
cause, and be silent, that you may hear. Believe me for mine honor, and have
respect to mine honor, that you may believe. Censure me in your wisdom, and
awake your senses, that you may the better judge. If there be any in this
assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say, that Brutus' love to
Caesar, was no less than his. If then, that friend demand, why Brutus rose
against Caesar, this is my answer: Not that I loved Caesar less, but that
I loved Rome more. Had you rather Caesar were living, and die all slaves;
than that Caesar were dead, to live all free men? As Caesar loved me, I weep
for him; as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it; as he was valiant, I honor
him: but, as he was ambitious, I slew him. There is tears, for his love: joy,
for his fortune: honor, for his valor: and death, for his ambition. Who is
here so base, that would be a bondman? If any, speak, for him have I
offended. Who is here so rude, that would not be a Roman? If any, speak, for
him have I offended. Who is here so vile, that will not love his country? If
any, speak, for him have I offended. I pause for a reply.
ALL
None Brutus, none.
BRUTUS
Then none have I offended. I have done no more to Caesar, than you shall do
to Brutus. The question of his death, is enrolled in the Capitol: his glory
not extenuated, wherein he was worthy, nor his offenses enforced, for which
he suffered death.
[enter MARK ANTONY, with CAESAR'S body]
Here comes his body, mourned by Mark Antony, who
though he had no hand in his death, shall receive the benefit of his dying,
a place in the commonwealth, as which of you shall not. With this I
depart, that as I slew my best lover for the good of Rome, I have the same
dagger for myself, when it shall please my country to need my death.
ALL
Live Brutus, live, live.
FIRST CITIZEN
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Bring him | with tri|umph home | unto | his house.
SECOND CITIZEN
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Give him | a sta|tue with | his an|cestors.
THIRD CITIZEN
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Let him be | Caesar. \\
FOURTH CITIZEN
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Caesar's | better | parts,
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Shall be | crowned in |
Brutus.
FIRST CITIZEN
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We'll bring | him to | his house,
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With shouts | and clam||ors.
BRUTUS
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My | countrymen. \\
SECOND CITIZEN
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Peace,| silence,| Brutus | speaks.
FIRST CITIZEN
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Peace ho.
BRUTUS
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Good count|rymen,| let me | depart | alone,
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And (for / my sake)| stay* here | with Ant|ony:
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Do grace | to Cae|sar's corpse,| and grace | his speech
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Tending to | Caesar's | glories,| which Mark
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(By our | permis|sion) is | allowed | to make.
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I do | entreat | you, not | a man | depart,
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Save^I | alone,| till Ant|ony | have spoke.
[Exit]
FIRST CITIZEN
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Stay* ho,| and let | us hear | Mark^Ant|ony.
THIRD CITIZEN
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Let him | go up | into | the pub|lic chair,
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We'll hear | him: nob|le Ant|ony | go up.
ANTONY
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For Brut|us' sake,| I am be|holding | to you.
[Goes into the pulpit]
FOURTH CITIZEN
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What does he | say of | Brutus?
THIRD CITIZEN
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He says,| for Brut|us' sake (tri with prev)
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He finds | himself | behold|ing to | us all.
FOURTH CITIZEN
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'Twere best | he speak | no harm | of Brut|us
here?
FIRST CITIZEN
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This Cae|sar was | a tyr|ant.
THIRD CITIZEN
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Nay | that's cert||ain:
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We | are blest | that Rome | is rid | of him.
SECOND CITIZEN
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Peace, let | us hear | what Ant|ony | can say.
ANTONY
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You gent|le Rom|ans.
CITIZENS
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Peace | ho, let us | hear him.
ANTONY
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Friends,| Romans,| countrymen,| lend me | your ears:
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I come | to bur|y Cae|sar, not | to praise him:
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The ev|il that / men do,| lives^aft|er them,
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The good | is oft | inter|red with | their bones,
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So let it | be with | Caesar.| The nob|le
Brutus,
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Hath told | you Cae|sar was | ambi|tious:
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If it | were so,| it was | a griev|ous fault,
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And griev|ously | hath Cae|sar ans|wered it.
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Here, und|er leave | of Brut|us, and | the rest
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(For Brut|us is | an hon|ora|ble man,
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So are | they all;| all hon/ora|ble men)
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Come^I | to speak | in Cae|sar's fun|eral.
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He was | my friend,| faithful,| and just | to me;
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But Brut|us says | he was | ambi|tious,
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And Brut|us is | an hon|ora|ble man.
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He hath / brought ma|ny cap|tives home | to Rome,
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Whose^rans|oms, did | the gene|ral cof|fers fill:
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Did this | in Cae|sar seem | ambi|tious?
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When that | the poor | have cried,| Caesar | hath
wept:
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Ambi|tion should | be made | of stern|er stuff,
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Yet Brut|us says,| he was | ambi|tious:
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And Brut|us is | an hon|ora|ble man.
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You all | did see,| that on | the Lup|ercal,
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I thrice | present|ed him | a king|ly crown,
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Which he | did thrice | refuse.| Was this |
ambi||tion?
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Yet | Brutus | says, he | was am|bitious:
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And sure | he is | an hon|ora|ble man.
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I speak | not to | disprove | what Brut|us spoke,
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But here | I am,| to speak | what I | do know;
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You all | did love | him once,| not with|out
cause,
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What cause | withholds | you then,| to mourn |
for him?
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O judg|ment! Thou | art fled | to brut|ish beasts,
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And men | have lost | their reas|on. Bear | with
me,
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My heart | is in | the coffin | there with |
Caesar,
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And I | must pause,| till it | come^back | to me.
FIRST CITIZEN
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Methinks | there is much | reason | in his |
sayings.
SECOND CITIZEN
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If thou | consid|er right|ly of | the matter,
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Caesar has | had great wrong.
THIRD CITIZEN
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Has he | masters?|| I fear | there will | a worse | come in | his
place.
FOURTH CITIZEN
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Marked ye | his words?| He would | not take | the
crown,
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Therefore |'tis cert|ain, he | was not | ambi||tious.
FIRST CITIZEN
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If | it be found | so, some | will dear | abide
it.
SECOND CITIZEN
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Poor* soul,| his eyes | are red | as fire | with
weep|ing.
THIRD CITIZEN
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There's not | a nob|ler man | in Rome | than
Ant|ony. (hex with prev)
FOURTH CITIZEN
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Now mark | him, he | begins | again | to speak.
ANTONY
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But yest|erday,| the word | of Cae|sar might
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Have stood | against | the world:| now lies | he
there,
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And none | so poor | to do | him rev|erence.
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O mast|ers! If | I were | disposed | to stir
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Your hearts | and minds | to mut|iny | and rage,
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I should | do Brut|us wrong,| and Cas|sius wrong:
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Who (you all | know) are | honora|ble men.
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I will | not do | them wrong:| I rath|er choose
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To wrong | the dead,| to wrong | myself | and
you,
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Than I | will wrong | such^hon|ora|ble men
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But^here's | a parch|ment, with the | seal of
| Caesar,
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I found | it in | his clos|et, 'tis | his will:
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Let but | the com|mons hear | this test|ament:
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(Which pard|on me)| I do | not mean | to read,
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And they would | go and | kiss dead Cae|sar's
wounds,
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And dip | their nap|kins in | his sac|red
blood;
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Yea, beg a hair | of him | for mem|ory,
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And dy|ing, men|tion it | within | their wills,
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Bequea|thing it | as a / rich leg|acy
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Unto | their is|sue. \\
FOURTH CITIZEN
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We'll hear | the will,| read it | Mark^Ant|ony.
ALL
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The will,| the will;| we will | hear Cae|sar's
will.
ANTONY
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Have pa|tience gent|le friends,| I must not |
read it.
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It is not | meet you | know how | Caesar | loved
you:
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You are | not wood,| you are / not stones,| but
men:
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And be|ing men,| hearing the | will of | Caesar,
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It will | inflame | you, it | will make | you
mad;
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'Tis good | you know | not that | you are | his
heirs,
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For if | you should,| O what | would come | of
it?
FOURTH CITIZEN
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Read the | will, we'll hear | it Ant|ony:
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You shall | read us | the will,| Caesar's | will.
ANTONY
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Will you | be pa|tient? Will | you stay | awhile?
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I have ore|shot my|self to | tell you | of it,
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I fear | I wrong | the hon|ora|ble men,
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Whose dag|gers have stabbed | Caesar:| I do fear
it.
FOURTH CITIZEN
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They were | traitors:| hono|rable | men?
ALL
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The will,| the tes|tament.
SECOND CITIZEN
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They were | villains,|| murde|rers: the | will, read the will.|
ANTONY
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You will | compel | me then | to read | the will:
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Then make | a ring | about | the corpse | of Cae||sar,
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And let | me show | you him | that made | the
will:
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Shall I | descend?| And will | you give | me
leave?
Several CITIZENS
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Come^down.
SECOND CITIZEN
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Descend.
THIRD CITIZEN
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You shall / have leave.
FOURTH CITIZEN
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A ring,|| stand round.
FIRST CITIZEN
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Stand | from the hearse,| stand from the | body.
SECOND CITIZEN
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Room for | Anto|ny, most^|noble | Antony.
ANTONY
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Nay* press | not so | upon | me, stand | far off.
SEVERAL CITIZENS
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Stand back: room,| bear | back.|
ANTONY
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If you | have tears,| prepare | to shed | them
now.
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You all | do know | this mant|le, I | remem||ber
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The / first time | ever | Caesar | put it on,
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'Twas on | a sum|mer's eve|ning in | his tent,
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That day | he ov|ercame | the Ner|vii.
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Look, in this place | ran Cas|sius' dag|ger
through:
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See what | a rent | the env|ious Cas|ca made:
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Through this,| the well-|belov|ed Brut|us
stabbed,
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And as | he plucked | his curs|ed steel | away:
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Mark how | the blood | of Cae|sar fol|lowed it,
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As rush|ing out | of doors,| to be | resolved
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If Brut|us so | unkind|ly knocked,| or no:
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For Brut|us, as | you know,| was Cae|sar's
an||gel.
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Judge,| O you gods,| how dear|ly Cae|sar loved him.
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This was | the most | unkind|est cut | of all.
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For when | the nob|le Cae|sar saw | him stab,
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Ingrat|itude,| more* strong | than trait|ors' arms,
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Quite van/quished him:| then burst | his migh|ty
heart,
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And in | his mant|le, muf|fling up | his face,
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Even | at the | base of | Pompey's | statue
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(Which all | the while ran blood)|
great^Cae|sar fell.
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O what | a fall | was there,| my count|rymen?
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Then I,| and you,| and all | of us | fell^down,
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Whilst blood|y treas|on flour|ished ov|er us.
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O now | you weep,| and I | perceive | you feel
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The dint | of pi|ty: these | are gra|cious drops.
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Kind souls, what | weep you,| when you but | behold
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Our Cae|sar's ves|ture wound|ed? Look | you here,
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Here is | himself,| marred as you | see with |
traitors.
FIRST CITIZEN
O piteous spectacle!
SECOND CITIZEN
O noble Caesar!
THIRD CITIZEN
O woeful day!
FOURTH CITIZEN
O traitors, villains!
FIRST CITIZEN
O most bloody sight!
SECOND CITIZEN
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We will | be re|venged: Re|venge ????
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About,| seek, burn, fire,| kill,|
slay,
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Let not | a trait|or live.
ANTONY
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Stay count/rymen.
FIRST CITIZEN
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Peace there, hear | the nob|le Ant|ony.
SECOND CITIZEN
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We'll hear him,| we'll fol|low him,| we'll die |
with him.
ANTONY
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Good friends,| sweet friends, let | me not stir |
you up
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To such | a sud|den flood | of mut|iny:
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They that | have done | this deed,| are
hon|orable.
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What private griefs they have, alas I know
not, ????
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That made | them do it:| they are wise,| and
hon|orable,
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And will | no doubt | with reas|ons ans|wer you.
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I come | not (friends)| to steal | away |
your hearts,
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I am / no or|ator,| as Brut|us is;
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But (as you | know me | all) a | plain blunt man
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That love | my friend,| and that | they know |
full* well,
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That gave | me pub|lic leave | to speak | of him:
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For I | have neith|er writ | nor words,| nor worth,
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Action,| nor ut|terance, nor | the power | of
speech,
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To stir men's blood.| I on|ly speak |
right^on:
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I tell | you that,| which you | yourselves | do
know,
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Show you sweet* | Caesar's | wounds, poor poor |
dumb^mouths
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And bid | them speak | for me:| but were I | Brutus,
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And Brut|us Ant|ony,| there were an | Antony
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Would ruf|fle up | your spirits,| and put | a
tongue
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In eve|ry wound | of Cae|sar, that | should move
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The stones | of Rome,| to rise | and mut|iny.
ALL
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We'll mut|iny.
FIRST CITIZEN
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We'll burn | the house | of Brutus.
THIRD CITIZEN
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Away | then, come,| seek the | conspir|ators.
ANTONY
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Yet hear | me count|rymen,| yet hear | me speak.
ALL
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Peace^ho,| hear Ant|ony,| most nob|le An||tony.
ANTONY
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Why friends,| you go | to do | you know | not what:
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Wherein | hath Cae|sar thus | deserved | your
loves?
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Alas | you know | not, I | must tell | you then:
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You have | forgot | the will | I told | you of.
ALL
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Most^true,| the will,| let's stay | and hear |
the will.
ANTONY
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Here is | the will,| and und|er Cae|sar's seal:
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To eve|ry Rom|an cit|izen | he gives,
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To every several man, seventy-five drachmas.
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SECOND CITIZEN
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Most^nob|le Cae|sar, we'll | revenge | his death.
THIRD CITIZEN
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O roy|al Cae|sar.
ANTONY
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Hear | me with pa|tience.
ALL
Peace ho.
ANTONY
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Moreov|er, he | hath left | you all | his walks,
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His priv|ate arb|ors, and new-|planted | orchards,
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On this | side^Tib|er, he | hath left | them you,
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And to your | heirs fo|rever:| common | pleasures
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To walk | abroad,| and re|create | yourselves.
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Here was a | Caesar:| when comes^|such a|nother?
FIRST CITIZEN
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Never,| never:| Come,| away,| away:
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We'll burn | his bod|y in | the ho|ly place,
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And with | the brands | fire the | traitors'|
houses.
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Take^up | the bo|dy.
SECOND CITIZEN
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Go | fetch fire.
THIRD CITIZEN
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Pluck || down^ben|ches.
FOURTH CITIZEN
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Pluck | down* forms,| windows,| anything.
[Exeunt Citizens with the body]
ANTONY
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Now let | it work:| mischief | thou art | afoot,
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Take thou | what course | thou wilt.
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How now | fellow?
[Enter a Servant]
SERVANT
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Sir, Oc|tavius | is al|ready come | to Rome.
ANTONY
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Where is he?
SERVANT
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He and | Lepidus | are at Cae|sar's house.
ANTONY
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And thith|er will | I straight,| to vis|it him:
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He comes | upon | a wish.| Fortune is | merry,
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And in | this mood | will give | us an|ything.
SERVANT
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I heard | him say,| Brut|us and | Cassius
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Are rid | like mad|men through | the gates | of
Rome.
ANTONY
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Belike | they had | some not|ice of | the
peo||ple
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How | I had moved | them. Bring | me to Oc|tavius.
[Exeunt]