Reading The Tragedy of Iulius Caesar — William Shakespeare

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Ant.

But yesterday, the word of Cæsar

might

Haue stood against the World: Now lies he there,

And none so poore to do him reuerence.

O Maisters! If I were dispos'd to stirre

Your hearts and mindes to Mutiny and Rage,

I should do Brutus wrong, and Cassius wrong:

Who (you all know) are Honourable men.

I will not do them wrong: I rather choose

To wrong the dead, to wrong my selfe and you,

Then I will wrong such Honourable men.

But heere's a Parchment, with the Seale of Cæsar,

I found it in his Closset, 'tis his Will:

Let but the Commons heare this Testament:

(Which pardon me) I do not meane to reade,

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