Speech: "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears" Poem by William Shakespeare

Speech: "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears"

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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.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Me Poet Yeps Poet 26 December 2015

Julius Caesar was born as per earlier Calendar as LIBRA last calendar eight month was Libra and Librans are still ambitious and mostly genuinely they say liar[y still ego- oists Brutus becomes immortal for killing his friend Caesar on whom July as a loser is named and leos all are victors as was Brutus all Cancerians suffer at the hands of Leos i have for ever known Go see in your own homes even PMs lost their throne post though

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T.Babinaya 10 May 2020

Very nice and usefully

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Shaun Cronick 28 March 2020

One of the Bard's best. Terrific.

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Dr Antony Theodore 01 July 2019

The famous speech of Mark Antony. cear's burial, and Brutus. a well known speech in the world of literature. tony

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Prabir Gayen 06 January 2019

He was my friend, faithful and just to me: But Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man.

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Me Poet Yeps Poet 26 December 2015

Librans are ambitious and mostly genuinely they say liarly still ego- oists Caesar was born in the eighth old month of Libra and as per Brutus was ambitious He wanted to be known as EMPEROR Brutus becomes immortal for killing his friend Caesar on whom July as a loser is named and Leos all are victors as was Brutus all Cancerians suffer at the hands of Leos I have for ever known Go see in your own homes even PMs lost their thrones post though....

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