


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. Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears I come to bury Caesar. What is the significance Antony convinces the people that Cassius, Brutus, and the conspirators wrong for killing Caesar. (from Julius Caesar, spoken by Marc Antony) Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know. A soothsayer warns Julius Caesar about his impending assassination in this. 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.

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. He was my friend, faithful and just to me: But Brutus says he was ambitious And Brutus is an honourable man. 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. 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. The evil that men do lives after them The good is oft interred with their bones So let it be with Caesar. Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. 'Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
