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Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; |
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I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. |
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The evil that men do lives after them; |
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The good is oft interred with their bones; |
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So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus |
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Hath told you Caesar was ambitious: |
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If it were so, it was a grievous fault, |
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And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it. |
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Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest- |
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For Brutus is an honourable man; |
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So are they all, all honourable men- |
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Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral. |
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He was my friend, faithful and just to me: |
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But Brutus says he was ambitious; |
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And Brutus is an honourable man. |
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He hath brought many captives home to Rome |
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Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill: |
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Did this in Caesar seem ambitious? |
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When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: |
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Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: |
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Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; |
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And Brutus is an honourable man. |
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You all did see that on the Lupercal |
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I thrice presented him a kingly crown, |
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Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition? |
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Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; |
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And, sure, he is an honourable man. |
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I speak not to disprove what Brutus 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 without cause: |
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What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him? |
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O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts, |
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And men have lost their reason. 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.
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