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First Citizen:
We’ll bring him to his house with shouts and clamours.
Brutus:
My countrymen,—
Second Citizen:
Peace! Silence! Brutus speaks.
First Citizen:
Peace, ho!
Brutus:
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 allow’d to make.
I do entreat you, not a man depart,
Save I alone, till Antony have spoke.
(Exit.)
First Citizen:
Stay, ho! and let us hear Mark Antony.
Third Citizen:
Let him go up into the public chair.
We’ll hear him. Noble Antony, go up.
Antony:
For Brutus’ sake, I am beholding to you.
(Goes up.)
Fourth Citizen:
What does he say of Brutus?
Third Citizen:
He says, for Brutus’ sake
He finds himself beholding to us all.
Fourth Citizen:
’Twere best he speak no harm of Brutus here!
First Citizen:
This Caesar was a tyrant.
Third Citizen:
Nay, that’s certain.
We are blest that Rome is rid of him.
Second Citizen:
Peace! let us hear what Antony can say.
Antony:
You gentle Romans,—
Citizens:
Peace, ho! let us hear him.