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; 105
My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,
And I must pause till it come back to me.

[Note 74: /bury./ A characteristic anachronism. Cf. 'coffin'
in l. 106.]

[Note 104: /art/ F2 F3 F4 | are F1.]

[Note 75-76: So in _Henry VIII_, IV, ii, 45: "Men's evil
manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water."]

[Note 89: Caesar's campaigns in Gaul put vast sums of money
into his hands, a large part of which he kept to his own use,
as he might have kept it all; but he did also, in fact, make
over much of it to the public treasury. This was a very
popular act, as it lightened the taxation of the city.]

[Note 95: /on the Lupercal:/ at the festival of the Lupercal.]

[Note 99: These repetitions of 'honourable man' are intensely
ironical; and for that very reason the irony should be
studiously kept out of the voice in pronouncing them. Speakers
and readers utterly spoil the effect of the speech by
specially emphasizing the irony. For, from the extreme
delicacy of his position, Antony is obliged to proceed with
the utmost caution, until he gets the audience thoroughly in
his power. The consummate adroitness which he uses to this end
is one of the greatest charms of this oration.]

[Note 103: /to mourn:/ from mourning. The gerundive use of the
infinitive.]

[Note 104: 'Brutish' is by no means tautological here, the
antithetic sense of human brutes being most artfully implied.]

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1 CITIZEN. Methinks there is much reason in his sayings.

2 CITIZEN. If thou consider rightly of the matter,
Caesar has had great wrong.

3 CITIZEN. Has he, masters? 110
I fear there will a worse come in his place.

[Note 110: /Has he/, | Ha's hee F1.]

[Note 110: It was here, as the first words of the reply of the
Third Citizen, that Pope would have inserted the quotation
preserved in Jonson's _Discoveries_, discussed in note, p. 83,
ll. 47-48. Pope's note is:

"Caesar has had great wrong.

3 PLEB. Caesar had never wrong, but with just cause.

If ever there was such a line written by Shakespeare, I should
fancy it might have its place here, and very humorously in the
character of a Plebeian." Craik inserted 'not' after 'Has
he.']

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