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    Julius Caesar - Mark Anthony's Funeral Speech

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    Mark Anthony asks to speak at Julius Caesar's funeral after Brutus' speech. Brutus agrees but sets conditions that Anthony cannot blame the conspirators and must admit to speaking with their permission. In his speech, Anthony repeats that Brutus is an "honorable man" while sowing seeds of doubt about the conspirators' justification for killing Caesar, ultimately turning the crowd against Brutus.

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    Julius Caesar - Mark Anthony's Funeral Speech

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    Mark Anthony asks to speak at Julius Caesar's funeral after Brutus' speech. Brutus agrees but sets conditions that Anthony cannot blame the conspirators and must admit to speaking with their permission. In his speech, Anthony repeats that Brutus is an "honorable man" while sowing seeds of doubt about the conspirators' justification for killing Caesar, ultimately turning the crowd against Brutus.

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    Mark Anthony asks to speak at Julius Caesar's funeral after Brutus' speech. Brutus agrees but sets conditions that Anthony cannot blame the conspirators and must admit to speaking with their permission. In his speech, Anthony repeats that Brutus is an "honorable man" while sowing seeds of doubt about the conspirators' justification for killing Caesar, ultimately turning the crowd against Brutus.

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    Julius Caesar - Mark Anthony's Funeral Speech

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    Mark Anthony asks to speak at Julius Caesar's funeral after Brutus' speech. Brutus agrees but sets conditions that Anthony cannot blame the conspirators and must admit to speaking with their permission. In his speech, Anthony repeats that Brutus is an "honorable man" while sowing seeds of doubt about the conspirators' justification for killing Caesar, ultimately turning the crowd against Brutus.

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    Julius Caesar - Mark Anthony's funeral speech

    Julius Caesar was ruling Rome. The conspirators, who included Brutus, were afraid that Caesar was going to become a tyrant, so they killed him. Mark Antony, a friend of Caesar, asked if he could speak at Caesar's public funeral. Brutus said he could on certain conditions. These were: that Brutus would speak first, that Mark Anthony would speak immediately afterwards, that he wouldn't blame the conspirators and that he would admit he spoke with the conspirators' permission. Brutus does speak first to the people of Rome and explains simply why he killed Caesar - "Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more." The crowd approve of his speech. Then Antony starts to speak. Antony: Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones; So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus Hath told you Caesar was ambitious: If it were so, it was a grievous fault, And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it. Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest-For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men-Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral. He was my friend, faithful and just to me: But Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man. He hath brought many captives home to Rome Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill: Did this in Caesar seem ambitious? When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man. You all did see that on the Lupercal I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition? Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And, sure, he is an honourable man. I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke,

    But here I am to speak what I do know. You all did love him once, not without cause: What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him? O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason. Bear with me; My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, And I must pause till it come back to me.

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