1389And this, the bleeding businesse they haue done:

1390Our hearts you see not, they are pittifull:

1391And pitty to the generall wrong of Rome,

1392As fire driues out fire, so pitty, pitty

1393Hath done this deed on Caesar. For your part,

1394To you, our Swords haue leaden points Marke Antony:

1395Our Armes in strength of malice, and our Hearts

1396Of Brothers temper, do receiue you in,

1397With all kinde loue, good thoughts, and reuerence.

1398Cassi. Your voyce shall be as strong as any mans,

1399In the disposing of new Dignities.

1400Bru. Onely be patient, till we haue appeas'd

1401The Multitude, beside themselues with feare,

1402And then, we will deliuer you the cause,

1403Why I, that did loue Caesar when I strooke him,

1404Haue thus proceeded.

1405Ant. I doubt not of your Wisedome:

1406Let each man render me his bloody hand.

1407First Marcus Brutus will I shake with you;

1408Next Caius Cassius do I take your hand;

1409Now Decius Brutus yours; now yours Metellus;

1410Yours Cinna; and my valiant Caska, yours;

1411Though last, not least in loue, yours good Trebonius.

1412Gentlemen all: Alas, what shall I say,

1413My credit now stands on such slippery ground,

1414That one of two bad wayes you must conceit me,

1415Either a Coward, or a Flatterer.

1416That I did loue thee Caesar, O 'tis true:

1417If then thy Spirit looke vpon vs now,

1418Shall it not greeue thee deerer then thy death,

1419To see thy Antony making his peace,

1420Shaking the bloody fingers of thy Foes?

1421Most Noble, in the presence of thy Coarse,

1422Had I as many eyes, as thou hast wounds,

1423Weeping as fast as they streame forth thy blood,

1424It would become me better, then to close

1425In tearmes of Friendship with thine enemies.

1426Pardon me Iulius, heere was't thou bay'd braue Hart,

1427Heere did'st thou fall, and heere thy Hunters stand

1428Sign'd in thy Spoyle, and Crimson'd in thy Lethee.

1429O World! thou wast the Forrest to this Hart,

1430And this indeed, O World, the Hart of thee.

1431How like a Deere, stroken by many Princes,

1432Dost thou heere lye?

1433Cassi. Mark Antony.

1434Ant. Pardon me Caius Cassius:

1435The Enemies of Caesar, shall say this:

1436Then, in a Friend, it is cold Modestie.

1437Cassi. I blame you not for praising Caesar so,

1438But what compact meane you to haue with vs?

1439Will you be prick'd in number of our Friends,

1440Or shall we on, and not depend on you?

1441Ant. Therefore I tooke your hands, but was indeed

1442Sway'd from the point, by looking downe on Caesar.

1443Friends am I with you all, and loue you all,

1444Vpon this hope, that you shall giue me Reasons,

1445Why, and wherein, Caesar was dangerous.

1446Bru. Or else were this a sauage Spectacle:

1447Our Reasons are so full of good regard,

1448That were you Antony, the Sonne of Caesar,

1449You should be satisfied.

1450Ant. That's all I seeke,

1451And am moreouer sutor, that I may

1452Produce his body to the Market-place,

1453And in the Pulpit as becomes a Friend,

1454Speake in the Order of his Funerall.

1455Bru. You shall Marke Antony.

1456Cassi. Brutus, a word with you:

1457You know not what you do; Do not consent

1458That Antony speake in his Funerall:

1459Know you how much the people may be mou'd

1460By that which he will vtter.

1461Bru. By your pardon:

1462I will my selfe into the Pulpit first,

1463And shew the reason of our Caesars death.

1464What Antony shall speake, I will protest

1465He speakes by leaue, and by permission:

1466And that we are contented Caesar shall

1467Haue all true Rites, and lawfull Ceremonies,

1468It shall aduantage more, then do vs wrong.

1469Cassi. I know not what may fall, I like it not.

1470Bru. Mark Antony, heere take you Caesars body:

1471You shall not in your Funerall speech blame vs,

1472But speake all good you can deuise of Caesar,

1473And say you doo't by our permission:

1474Else shall you not haue any hand at all

1475About his Funerall. And you shall speake

1476In the same Pulpit whereto I am going,

1477After my speech is ended.

1478Ant. Be it so:

1479I do desire no more.

1480Bru. Prepare the body then, and follow vs. Exeunt.

1482O pardon me, thou bleeding peece of Earth:

1483That I am meeke and gentle with these Butchers.

1484Thou art the Ruines of the Noblest man

1485That euer liued in the Tide of Times.

1486Woe to the hand that shed this costly Blood.

1487Ouer thy wounds, now do I Prophesie,

1488(Which like dumbe mouthes do ope their Ruby lips,

1489To begge the voyce and vtterance of my Tongue)

1490A Curse shall light vpon the limbes of men;

1491Domesticke Fury, and fierce Ciuill strife,

1492Shall cumber all the parts of Italy:

1493Blood and destruction shall be so in vse,

1494And dreadfull Obiects so familiar,

1495That Mothers shall but smile, when they behold

1496Their Infants quartered with the hands of Warre:

1497All pitty choak'd with custome of fell deeds,

1498And Caesars Spirit ranging for Reuenge,

1499With Ate by his side, come hot from Hell,

1500Shall in these Confines, with a Monarkes voyce,

1501Cry hauocke, and let slip the Dogges of Warre,

1502That this foule deede, shall smell aboue the earth

1503With Carrion men, groaning for Buriall.

1505You serue Octauius Caesar, do you not?

1506Ser. I do Marke Antony.

1507Ant. Caesar did write for him to come to Rome.

1508Ser. He did receiue his Letters, and is comming,

1509And bid me say to you by word of mouth---

1510O Caesar!

1511Ant. Thy heart is bigge: get thee a-part and weepe:

1512Passion I see is catching from mine eyes,

1513Seeing those Beads of sorrow stand in thine,

1514Began to water. Is thy Master comming?

1515Ser. He lies to night within seuen Leagues of Rome.

1516Ant. Post backe with speede,

1517And tell him what hath chanc'd:

1518Heere is a mourning Rome, a dangerous Rome,

1519No Rome of safety for Octauius yet,

1520Hie hence, and tell him so. Yet stay a-while,