nto his house.

2 CITIZEN. Give him a statue with his ancestors.

3 CITIZEN. Let him be Caesar.

4 CITIZEN. Caesar's better parts 50
Shall be crown'd in Brutus.

1 CITIZEN. We'll bring him to his house with shouts and
clamours.

BRUTUS. My countrymen,--

2 CITIZEN. Peace! silence! Brutus speaks.

1 CITIZEN. Peace, ho!

[Note 40: _Enter_ ANTONY ... _body_ Malone | Enter Mark Antony
with Caesar's body Ff.]

[Note 47, 72, etc.: ALL Ff | Cit. (Citizens) Capell.]

[Note 48, 49, etc.: CITIZEN | Ff omit.]

[Note 52: Two lines in Ff.]

[Note 43-46: In this speech Shakespeare seems to have aimed at
imitating the manner actually ascribed to Brutus. "In some of
his Epistles, he counterfeited that brief compendious manner
of speech of the Lacedaemonians."--Plutarch, _Marcus Brutus_.
Shakespeare's idea is sustained by the _Dialogus de
Oratoribus_, ascribed to Tacitus, wherein it is said that
Brutus's style of eloquence was censured as _otiosum et
disjunctum_. Verplanck remarks, "the _disjunctum_, the
broken-up style, without oratorical continuity, is precisely
that assumed by the dramatist." Gollancz finds a probable
original of this speech in Belleforest's _Histoires Tragiques_
(_Hamlet_); Dowden thinks Shakespeare received hints from the
English version (1578) of Appian's _Roman Wars_.]

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BRUTUS. Good countrymen, let me depart alone, 55
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, 60
Save I alone, till Antony have spoke. [_Exit_]

1 CITIZEN. Stay, ho! and let us hear Mark Antony.

3 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. 65

4 CITIZEN. What does he say of Brutus?

3 CITIZEN. He says, for Brutus' sake,
He finds himself beholding to us all.

4 CITIZEN. 'Twere best he speak no harm of Brutus here.

1 CITIZEN. This Caesar was a tyrant.

3 CITIZEN. Nay, that's certain:
We are blest that Rome is rid of him. 70

2 CITIZEN. Peace! let us hear what Antony can say.

ANTONY. You gentle Romans,--