"First Citizen :
This Caesar was a tyrant.
Third Citizen :
Nay, that's certain:
We are blest that Rome is rid of him.
Second Citizen:
Peace! let us hear what Antony can say.
ANTONY:
You gentle Romans,--
Citizens:
Peace, ho! let us hear him.
ANTONY:
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."
- Shakespeare, Julius Ceasar
Last edited by marichiko; 06-06-2004 at 04:05 PM.
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