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FOURTH PLEBEIAN Read the will. We’ll hear it, Antony.
You shall read us the will, Caesar’s will.
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FOURTH PLEBEIAN Read the will. We want to hear it, Antony. You have to read us the
will, Caesar’s will.
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ANTONY Will you be patient? Will you stay awhile?
I have o'ershot myself to tell you of it.
150I fear I wrong the honorable men
Whose daggers have stabbed Caesar. I do fear it.
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ANTONY Will you be patient? Will you wait awhile? I’ve said too
much in telling you of it. I’m afraid that I wrong the
honorable men whose daggers have stabbed Caesar.
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FOURTH PLEBEIAN They were traitors! “Honorable
men”!
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FOURTH PLEBEIAN They were traitors. “Honorable
men!”
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ALL The will! The testament!
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ALL The will! The testament!
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SECOND PLEBEIAN They were villains, murderers. The will! Read the will!
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SECOND PLEBEIAN They were villains, murderers. The will! Read the will!
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ANTONY
155You will compel me, then, to read the will?
Then make a ring about the corpse of Caesar,
And let me show you him that made the will.
Shall I descend? And will you give me leave?
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ANTONY You force me to read the will, then? Then make a circle around
Caesar’s corpse, and let me show you the man who made this
will. Shall I come down? Will you let me?
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ALL Come down.
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ALL Come down.
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SECOND PLEBEIAN Descend.
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SECOND PLEBEIAN Descend.
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THIRD PLEBEIAN You shall have
leave.
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THIRD PLEBEIAN We’ll let you.
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ANTONY descends from the pulpit
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ANTONY descends from the
pulpit.
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FOURTH PLEBEIAN A
ring!
160Stand round.
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FOURTH PLEBEIAN Make a circle; stand around him.
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FIRST PLEBEIAN Stand from the hearse.
Stand from the body.
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FIRST PLEBEIAN Stand away from the hearse. Stand away from the body.
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SECOND PLEBEIAN Room for Antony, most noble Antony!
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SECOND PLEBEIAN Make room for Antony, most noble Antony!
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