Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears. | Blank Verse: from Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare |
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. | Blank Verse: from Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare |
The evil that men do lives after them; | Blank Verse: from Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare |
The good is oft interred with their bones. | Blank Verse: from Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare |
So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus | Blank Verse: from Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare |
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious. | Blank Verse: from Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare |
If it were so, it was a grievous fault, | Blank Verse: from Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare |
And grievously hath Caesar answered it. | Blank Verse: from Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare |
Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest – | Blank Verse: from Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare |
For Brutus is an honorable man, | Blank Verse: from Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare |
So are they all, all honorable men – | Blank Verse: from Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare |
Come I to speak in Caesar’s funeral. | Blank Verse: from Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare |
He was my friend, faithful and just to me. | Blank Verse: from Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare |
But Brutus says he was ambitious, | Blank Verse: from Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare |
And Brutus is an honorable man. | Blank Verse: from Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare |
He hath brought many captives home to Rome, | Blank Verse: from Julius Caesar by William ShakespeareBlank Verse: from Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare |
Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill. | Blank Verse: from Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare |
Did this in Caesar seems ambitious? | Blank Verse: from Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare |
When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept. | Blank Verse: from Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare |
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. | Blank Verse: from Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare |
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious. | Blank Verse: from Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare |
You all did see that on the Lupercal | Blank Verse: from Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare |
I thrice presented him a kingly crown, | Blank Verse: from Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare |
Which he did thrice refuse. Was this ambition? | Blank Verse: from Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare |
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious. | Blank Verse: from Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare |
And sure he us an honorable man. | Blank Verse: from Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare |
I speak not to disapprove what Brutus spoke, | Blank Verse: from Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare |
But here I am to speak what I do know. | Blank Verse: from Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare |
You all did love him once, not without cause. | Blank Verse: from Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare |
What cause withholds you then to mourn for him? | Blank Verse: from Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare |
O judgement, thou art fled to brutish beasts, | Blank Verse: from Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare |
And men have lost their reason! Bear with me. | Blank Verse: from Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare |
My heart is in the coffin there withCaesar, | Blank Verse: from Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare |
And I must pause till it come back to me. | Blank Verse: from Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare |
Blank Verse: from Julius Caesar (III.ii. 70-104)
April 14, 2020