The St. Louis Republic., 1900-11-18
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Friends, Romans. Countrymen

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Friends, Romans. Countrvmen.
FRIENDS, Romans. countrymen. lend me
your ears:
] came TO bury Caesar. not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them,
The good is oft inferred with their bones:
So let 1t he with Caesar The noble Brutus
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:
II 1t We're so, IS was a grtevous fault.
And grievousy hath Caesar answered 1t.
Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest.
tFor Brutus is an honorable man,
So are they all. all honorable mem.
Come i to speak In Caesars funeral.
He was my friend. faithful and just to me:
But Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honorable man.
He hath brought many captives home to
Rome.
Whose ransonls did the generous Golfers fi
Dis 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;
Ard Brutus is an honorable man.
You all did see that on the Lupercal
l thrice presented him Il kingly crown,
Which he did thrice refuse. Was this am
bition?
Yet BrutuS says he was ambitious;
And, sure. he IS an honorable man.
l speak not to disprove what BrutuS spoke
But here l am to speak what do know.
You all did love him once, not without
cause:
What cause witiiholds YOU then to mourn
for him?
o Judgment thou are fled to british beasts.
And men have lost their reason. Bear with
me:
My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar
And l must pause till it come back to me-
But yesterday the word OF Caesar might
Have stood against the world; now lies he
there.
And none SO poor to do him reverence
masters! IL ! We're disposed to stir
Your hearts and minds to mutiny and ra re
should do Brutus wrong and CassIus
wrong,
Who, You all know. are honorable men.
L will not do them wrong: l rather choose
TO wrong the dead, to wrong myself. and
you,
Than 1 will wrong such honorable men.
But here's 4 parchment with the will of
Caesar;
found it in his closet, It's his will:
Let but the commons hear this testament
(Which. pardon me, do not mean to reatl
And they would SO and kiss dead Caesars
wounds,
And dip their napkins in his sacred blood !.
Yea, beg hair of him for memory,
And, dying, mention 1t within their wills
Eequeathir:: it, as a rich legacy
Unto their issue
Have patience, gentle friends; must not
read it:
1t is not meet you know how Caesar ,ov,d
you.
You are not wood, you are not stones but
men.
Ard, being men, hearing the will of Caesar
IT. will infiame you. it will make you mad
lis good you know not that you are his
heirs, ''''
For If you should. O. what would come of
1t? ~ ="
II you have tears prepare to shed them now
You all do know this mantle: 1 remember
The first time ever Caesar put it on:
Twas on Il summers evening. in his tent.
That day he overcame the Nervii
Look! in this place ran Cassius's dagger
through;
See what rent the envious Casca made:
Through this the weli-beloved Brutus
stabb'd;
And as he pucked the cursed steel away.
Mark how the blood of Caesar folowtd il.
As rushing out of doors, TO be resolv'd
If Brutus so unkindly knocked or no.
For Erutus. as you know, was Caesars
angel.
Judge. - you gods. how dearly Caesar Iov.d
him.
This was the most unkindest cut of all.
For when the noble Caesar saw him stab