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Who's Listening?

Listen to conspirator Mark Antony carefully cast suspicion on Brutus and turn it away from himself as he works the crowd in the first part of his funeral oration for Caesar in William Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" (Act III, Scene ii):

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 honorable men--
Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral.