2 Pleb. Give him a ftatue with his Ancestors. 3 Pleb. Let him be Cæfar. 4 Pleb. Cafar's better Parts Shall be crown'd in Brutus. 1 Pleb. We'll bring him to his house With fhouts and clamours. Bru. My Countrymen 2 Pleb. Peace! filence! Brutus fpeaks. 1 Pleb. Peace, ho! Bru. Good Countrymen, let me depart alone, Do grace to Cafar's corps, and grace his speech I do intreat you, not a man depart, 1 Plob. Stay, ho, and let us hear Mark Antony. 3 Pleb. Let him go up into the publick Chair, We'll hear him: noble Antony, go up. Ant. For Brutus' fake, I am beholden to you. 4 Pleb. What does he fay of Brutus ? 3 Pleb. He fays, for Brutus' fake He finds himself beholden to us all. [Exit. 4 Pleb. "Twere best he speak no harm of Brutus here. Pleb. This Cafar was a Tyrant. 3 Pleb. Nay, that's certain; We are bleft, that Rome is rid of him. 2 Pleb. Peace; let us hear what Antony can say. Ant. You gentle Romans · All. Peace, ho, let us hear him. Ant. Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Cafar, not to praise him, (For (For Brutus is an honourable man, He was my friend, faithful and just to me; And Brutus is an honourable man. He hath brought many captives home to Rome, Did this in Cæfar feem ambitious? When that the poor have cry'd, Cæfar hath wept ; Yet Brutus fays, he was ambitious; And, fure, he is an honourable man. I fpeak not, to difprove what Brutus fpoke, 1 Pleb. Methinks, there is much reason in his sayings. If thou confider rightly of the matter, Cafar has had great wrong. 3 Pleb. Has he, Mafters? I fear there will a worse come in his place. 4 Pleb. Mark'd ye his words? he would not take the crown; Therefore, 'tis certain he was not ambitious. 1 Pleb. If it be found fo, fome will dear abide it. 2 Pleb. Poor foul! his eyes are red as fire with weeping. 3 Pleb. There's not a nobler man in Rome than Antony, 4 Pleb. Now, mark him, he begins to speak. Ant. But yesterday the word of Cæfar might Ca Have Have ftood against the world; now lies he there, Your hearts and minds to mutiny and rage, Let but the Commons hear this Teftament, And dying, mention it within their Wills, Unto their iffue. 4 Pleb. We'll hear the Will, read it, Mark Antony. All. The Will, the Will; we will hear Cafar's Will. Ant. Have patience, gentle friends, I must not read it; It is not meet you know how Cafar lov'd you. You are not wood, you are not ftones, but men : And, being men, hearing the will of Cæfar, It will inflame you, it will make you mad. 'Tis good you know not, that you are his heirs; For if you fhould O what would come of it? 4 Pleb. Read the Will, we will hear it, Antony; You fhall read us the Will, Cafar's Will. Ant. Will you be patient? will you stay a while? (I have o'er-fhot myself, to tell you of it.) I fear, I the honourable men, wrong 4 2 Pleb. They were villains, murderers; the Will! read the Will! Ant. You will compel me then to read the Will? Then Then make a ring about the corps of Cafar, 2 Pleb. Defcend. 3 [He comes down from the pulpit. Pleb. You fhall have leave. 4 Pleb. A ring; ftand round. 1 Pleb. Stand from the hearse, stand from the body. 2 Pleb. Room for Antony most noble Antony. Ant. Nay, prefs not fo upon me, stand far off. Ant. If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. You all do know this mantle; I remember, The first time ever Cafar put it on, 'Twas on a fummer's evening in his tent, That day he overcame the Nervii Look! in this place, ran Caffius' dagger through; - (Which all the while ran blood,) great Cæfar fell. C 3 1 Pleb. 1 Pleb. O piteous fpectacle! 2 Pleb. O noble Cafar! 3 Pleb. O woful day! 4 Pleb. O traitors, villains! i Pleb. O moft bloody fight! 2 Pleb. We will be reveng'd: revenge: about feek burn fire -kill live. Ant. Stay, Countrymen flay! let not a traitor 1 Pleb. Peace there, hear the noble Antony. 2 Pleb. We'll hear him, we'll follow him, we'll die with him Ant. Good friends, fweet friends, let me not ftir you up To fuch a fudden flood of mutiny: They, that have done this deed, are honourable. I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts; But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man, That love my friend; and that they know full well, And bid them fpeak for me. But were I Brutus, All. We'll mutiny. 1 Pleb. We'll burn the house of Brutus. 3 Pleb. Away then, come, feek the confpirators. Ant. Yet hear me, Countrymen; yet hear me fpeak. All. Peace, ho, hear Antony, most noble Antony. Ant. |