Countrymen!
Brutus is going to speak
Hear me for my cause...
and be silent...Brutus speaks
Romans
Countrymen, be patient til alas, hear me for my cause
and be silent that you may hear,
Believe me for thine honour, and have respect to mine honour that you may believe
censure me in your wisdom,
and awake your senses, that you may the better judge
Caesar!! Caesar!!
If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's...
to him I say, that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his
if then that friend demand
why Brutus rose against Caesar, this is my answer...
not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.
had you rather Caesar were living and die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead
to live all free men? NO!!
As Caesar loved me, I weep for him;
As he was fortunate, I rejoice in it;
as he was valiant, I honour him: but as he was ambitious, I slew him.
as tears for his love; joy for his fortune
and honour for his valour...and death for his ambition
who is here so base that would be a bondman?
If any, speak; for him I have offended
Who is here so rude that would not be a Roman?
If any speak, for him have I offended
Who is here so vile that will not love his country?
If any, speak; for him have I offended... I pause for a reply
None, Brutus, none!
Then none have I offended.
I have done no more to Caesar than you shall do to Brutus
the question of his death is enrolled in the capitol
his glory not extenuated wherein he was worthy
nor his offenses enforced for which he suffered death.
(woman screams)
Here comes his body,
mourned by Mark Antony,
who, though he had no hand in his death- shall receive the benefit in his dying.
a place in the Commonwealth--as which of you shall not?
With this I depart:
that as I slew Caesar for the good of Rome,
I have the same dagger for myself
when it shall please my country to need my death.
Live Brutus, live! (crowd cheering)
Bring him with triumph, home unto his house!
Give him a statue with his ancestors!
Let him be Caesar!
Caesar's better parts
Shall be crowned in Brutus!
Good countrymen, silence, Brutus speaks
good countrymen let me depart alone. And for my sake
stay here with Antony...do grace to Caesar's corpse
and grace his speech tending to Caesar's glories,
which Mark Antony by our permission is allowed to make
I do entreat you, not a man depart, Save I alone, til Antony have spoke.
(crowd murmurs)