![]() ![]() 'And, gentle friends, let's kill him boldly, but not wrathfully Let's carve him as a dish fit for the gods, Not hew him as a carcass fit for hounds. 'Cry 'Havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war, That this foul deed shall smell above the earth With carrion men, groaning for burial.' 'Our course will seem too bloody, Caius Cassius, To cut the head off and then hack the limbs, Like wrath in death and envy afterwards For Antony is but a limb of Caesar.' 'But I am constant as the Northern Star, Of whose true-fixed and resting quality there is no fellow in the firmament.' 'O pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!' ![]() Then walk we forth, even to the market place, and waving our red weapo 'Stoop, Romans, Stoop, And let us bathe our hands in Caesar's blood Up to the elbows, and besmear our swords. 'It must be by his death and for my part, I know no personal cause to spurn at him, But for the general.' All the conspirators, save only he, Did that they did in envy of great Caesar He, only in a general honest thought And common good to all, 'Bread and circuses' (or bread and games from Latin: panem et circenses) is a metonymic phrase referring to superficial appeasement.It is attributed to Juvenal (Satires, Satire X), a Roman poet active in the late first and early second century AD, and is used commonly in cultural, particularly political, contexts. 'Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world like a Colossus, and we petty men Walk under his huge legs and peep about To find ourselves dishonorable graves.'' Between the acting of a dreadful thing and the first motion, all the interim is like a phantasma, or a hideous dr 'Since Cassius first did whet me against Caesar, I have not slept. The evil that men do lives after them, the good is oft interred with their bones. 'Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. ![]()
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