Mark Anthonys Funeral Speech from Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
b"Shakespeare read by Classic Poetry Aloud:\\nhttp://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/\\nGiving voice to the poetry of the past.\\n\\n---------------------------------------------\\n\\nMark Anthony\\u2019s Funeral Speech\\nfrom Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare (1564 \\u2013 1616)\\n\\nFriends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;\\nI come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.\\nThe evil that men do lives after them;\\nThe good is oft interred with their bones;\\nSo let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus\\nHath told you Caesar was ambitious:\\nIf it were so, it was a grievous fault,\\nAnd grievously hath Caesar answer'd it.\\nHere, under leave of Brutus and the rest--\\nFor Brutus is an honourable man;\\nSo are they all, all honourable men--\\nCome I to speak in Caesar's funeral.\\nHe was my friend, faithful and just to me:\\nBut Brutus says he was ambitious;\\nAnd Brutus is an honourable man.\\nHe hath brought many captives home to Rome\\nWhose ransoms did the general coffers fill:\\nDid this in Caesar seem ambitious?\\nWhen that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept:\\nAmbition should be made of sterner stuff:\\nYet Brutus says he was ambitious;\\nAnd Brutus is an honourable man.\\nYou all did see that on the Lupercal\\nI thrice presented him a kingly crown,\\nWhich he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?\\nYet Brutus says he was ambitious;\\nAnd, sure, he is an honourable man.\\nI speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke,\\nBut here I am to speak what I do know.\\nYou all did love him once, not without cause:\\nWhat cause withholds you then, to mourn for him?\\nO judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts,\\nAnd men have lost their reason. Bear with me;\\nMy heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,\\nAnd I must pause till it come back to me."