0 Marc Antony Addresses Death of Julius Caesar ms
[00:16.78] ANTONY
[00:19.93] Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
[00:21.93] I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
[00:25.31] The evil that men do lives after them;
[00:26.17] The good is oft interred with their bones;
[00:29.27] So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus
[00:29.52] Hath told you Caesar was ambitious
[00:30.66] If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
[00:32.93] And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it.
[00:35.46] Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest--
[00:38.89] For Brutus is an honourable man;
[00:39.46] So are they all, all honourable men--
[00:44.02] Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral.
[00:47.16] He was my friend, faithful and just to me
[00:52.02] But Brutus says he was ambitious;
[00:55.16] And Brutus is an honourable man.
[00:59.16] He hath brought many captives home to Rome
[01:02.01] Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill
[01:04.59] Did this in Caesar seem ambitious
[01:07.73] When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept
[01:11.44] Ambition should be made of sterner stuff
[09:28.81] Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
[09:31.66] And Brutus is an honourable man.
[09:31.94] You all did see that on the Lupercal
[09:32.22] I thrice presented him a kingly crown,
[09:32.22] Which he did thrice refuse was this ambition
[09:32.51] Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
[09:32.51] And, sure, he is an honourable man.
[09:32.51] I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke,
[09:32.51] But here I am to speak what I do know.
[09:32.51] You all did love him once, not without cause
[09:32.51] What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him
[09:32.51] O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts,
[09:32.51] And men have lost their reason. Bear with me;
[09:32.51] My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,
[09:32.79] And I must pause till it come back to me.
[09:32.79] First Citizen
[09:32.79] Methinks there is much reason in his sayings.
[09:32.79] Second Citizen
[09:32.79] If thou consider rightly of the matter,
[09:32.79] Caesar has had great wrong.
[09:32.79] Third Citizen
[09:32.79] Has he, masters
[09:33.08] I fear there will a worse come in his place.
[09:33.08] Fourth Citizen
[09:33.08] Mark'd ye his words He would not take the crown;
[09:33.08] Therefore 'tis certain he was not ambitious.
[09:33.08] First Citizen
[09:33.08] If it be found so, some will dear abide it.
[09:33.08] Second Citizen
[09:33.32] Poor soul! his eyes are red as fire with weeping.
[09:33.32] Third Citizen
[09:33.32] There's not a nobler man in Rome than Antony.
[09:33.32] Fourth Citizen
[09:33.32] Now mark him, he begins again to speak.
[09:33.32] ANTONY
[09:33.32] But yesterday the word of Caesar might
[09:33.61] Have stood against the world; now lies he there.
[09:33.61] And none so poor to do him reverence.
[09:33.61] O masters, if I were disposed to stir
[09:33.61] Your hearts and minds to mutiny and rage,
[09:33.61] I should do Brutus wrong, and Cassius wrong,
[09:33.61] Who, you all know, are honourable men
[09:33.61] I will not do them wrong; I rather choose
[09:33.61] To wrong the dead, to wrong myself and you,
[09:33.89] Than I will wrong such honourable men.
[09:33.89] But here's a parchment with the seal of Caesar;
[09:33.89] I found it in his closet, 'tis his will
[09:33.89] Let but the commons hear this testament--
[09:33.89] Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read--
[09:33.89] And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds
[09:33.89] And dip their napkins in his sacred blood,
[09:33.89] Yea, beg a hair of him for memory,
[09:34.14] And, dying, mention it within their wills,
[09:34.14] Bequeathing it as a rich legacy
[09:34.14] Unto their issue.
[09:34.14] Fourth Citizen
[09:34.14] We'll hear the will read it, Mark Antony.
[09:34.14] All
[09:34.14] The will, the will! we will hear Caesar's will.
[09:34.14] ANTONY
[09:34.42] Have patience, gentle friends, I must not read it;
[09:34.42] It is not meet you know how Caesar loved you.
[09:34.42] You are not wood, you are not stones, but men;
[09:34.42] And, being men, bearing the will of Caesar,
[09:34.42] It will inflame you, it will make you mad
[09:34.42] 'Tis good you know not that you are his heirs;
[09:34.42] For, if you should, O, what would come of it!
[09:34.42] Fourth Citizen
[09:34.71] Read the will; we'll hear it, Antony;
[09:34.71] You shall read us the will, Caesar's will.
[09:34.71] ANTONY
[09:34.71] Will you be patient will you stay awhile
[09:34.71] I have o'ershot myself to tell you of it
[09:34.71] I fear I wrong the honourable men
[09:34.71] Whose daggers have stabb'd Caesar; I do fear it.
[09:34.99] Fourth Citizen
[09:34.99] They were traitors honourable men!
[09:34.99] All
[09:34.99] The will! the testament!
[09:34.99] Second Citizen
[09:34.99] They were villains, murderers the will! read the will.
[09:34.99] ANTONY
[09:34.99] You will compel me, then, to read the will
[09:34.99] Then make a ring about the corpse of Caesar,
[09:35.28] And let me show you him that made the will.
[09:35.28] Shall I descend and will you give me leave
[09:35.28] Several Citizens
[09:35.28] Come down.
[09:35.28] Second Citizen
[09:35.28] Descend.
[09:35.28] Third Citizen
[09:35.28] You shall have leave.
[09:35.56] ANTONY comes down
[09:35.56] Fourth Citizen
[09:35.56] A ring; stand round.
[09:35.56] First Citizen
[09:35.56] Stand from the hearse, stand from the body.
[09:35.56] Second Citizen
[09:35.56] Room for Antony, most noble Antony.
[09:35.56] ANTONY
[09:35.56] Nay, press not so upon me; stand far off.
[09:35.84] Several Citizens
[09:35.84] Stand back; room; bear back.
[09:35.84] ANTONY
[09:35.84] If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.
[09:35.84] You all do know this mantle I remember
[09:35.84] The first time ever Caesar put it on;
[09:36.09] 'Twas on a summer's evening, in his tent,
[09:36.09] That day he overcame the Nervii
[09:36.09] Look, in this place ran Cassius' dagger through
[09:36.09] See what a rent the envious Casca made
[09:36.09] Through this the well-beloved Brutus stabb'd;
[09:36.09] And as he pluck'd his cursed steel away,
[09:36.09] Mark how the blood of Caesar follow'd it,
[09:36.09] As rushing out of doors, to be resolved
[09:36.38] If Brutus so unkindly knock'd, or no;
[09:36.38] For Brutus, as you know, was Caesar's angel
[09:36.38] Judge, O you gods, how dearly Caesar loved him!
[09:36.38] This was the most unkindest cut of all;
[09:36.38] For when the noble Caesar saw him stab,
[09:36.38] Ingratitude, more strong than traitors' arms,
[09:36.38] Quite vanquish'd him then burst his mighty heart;
[09:36.38] And, in his mantle muffling up his face,
[09:36.62] Even at the base of Pompey's statua,
[09:36.62] Which all the while ran blood, great Caesar fell.
[09:36.62] O, what a fall was there, my countrymen!
[09:36.62] Then I, and you, and all of us fell down,
[09:36.62] Whilst bloody treason flourish'd over us.
[09:36.62] O, now you weep; and, I perceive, you feel
[09:36.62] The dint of pity these are gracious drops.
[09:36.62] Kind souls, what, weep you when you but behold
[09:36.90] Our Caesar's vesture wounded Look you here,
[09:36.90] Here is himself, marr'd, as you see, with traitors.
[09:36.90] First Citizen
[09:36.90] O piteous spectacle!
[09:36.90] Second Citizen
[09:36.90] O noble Caesar!
[09:36.90] Third Citizen
[09:37.15] O woful day!
[09:37.15] Fourth Citizen
[09:37.15] O traitors, villains!
[09:37.15] First Citizen
[09:37.15] O most bloody sight!
[09:37.15] Second Citizen
[09:37.15] We will be revenged.
[09:37.15] All
[09:37.44] Revenge! About! Seek! Burn! Fire! Kill! Slay!
[09:37.44] Let not a traitor live!
[09:37.44] ANTONY
[09:37.44] Stay, countrymen.
[09:37.44] First Citizen
[09:37.44] Peace there! hear the noble Antony.
[09:37.44] Second Citizen
[09:37.68] We'll hear him, we'll follow him, we'll die with him.
[09:37.68] ANTONY
[09:37.68] Good friends, sweet friends, let me not stir you up
[09:37.68] To such a sudden flood of mutiny.
[09:37.68] They that have done this deed are honourable
[09:37.68] What private griefs they have, alas, I know not,
[09:37.68] Th
