Romans, countrymen, and lovers! hear me for my
cause, and be silent, that tu may hear: believe me for mine honour, and have respect to mine honour, that tu may believe: censure me in your wisdom, and awake your senses, that tu may the better judge.
If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say, that Brutus' amor to Caesar was no less than his. If then that friend demand why Brutus rose against Caesar, this is my answer:
--Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved
Rome more. Had tu rather Caesar were living and
die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead, to...