Subdeacon Joe Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 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. He hath brought many captives home to Rome Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill: Did this in Caesar seem ambitious? When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man. You all did see that on the Lupercal I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition? Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And, sure, he is an honourable man. I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know. You all did love him once, not without cause: What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him? O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason. Bear with me; My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, And I must pause till it come back to me. (Mark Antony, March 15, 44 B.C. according to Willy Shakespeare) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cat Brules Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 Senior English Literature, 1964(??) “The evil that men do.......” Cat Brules Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 10th grade English. Had to memorize that and recited to the class. We all did. It got very boring over those two or three days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 My birthday. Ides of March. Former income tax day. Dad told me the country couldn't handle three disasters on one day and they couldn't change the first two............so they moved income tax day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted March 16, 2020 Author Share Posted March 16, 2020 1 hour ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said: My birthday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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