Wednesday, May 1, 2019

What if Julius Caesar Survived?

As Antony stated:

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.

Just think a bit, a little bit.