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Antony, Lines 191-211
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Act 3,
Scene 1
Lines 191-211

Antony performs a speech from Act 3, Scene 1 of myShakespeare's Julius Caesar. 

Antony

Gentlemen all. Alas, what shall I say?
My credit now stands on such slippery ground
That one of two bad ways you must conceit me —
Either a coward or a flatterer.
[To Caesar's body] That I did love thee, Caesar, O, 'tis true!
If then thy spirit look upon us now,
Shall it not grieve thee dearer than thy death
To see thy Anthony making his peace,
Shaking the bloody fingers of thy foes — 
Most noble! — in the presence of thy corse?
Had I as many eyes as thou hast wounds,
Weeping as fast as they stream forth thy blood,
It would become me better than to close
In terms of friendship with thine enemies.
Pardon me, Julius! Here wast thou bayed, brave hart;
Here didst thou fall; and here thy hunters stand,
Signed in thy spoil, and crimsoned in thy Lethe.
O world, thou wast the forest to this hart,
And this indeed, O world, the heart of thee!
How like a deer, strucken by many princes,
Dost thou here lie!