Is This a Dagger Which I See Before Me? by William Shakespeare

Author:William Shakespeare
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780241252208
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2016-01-04T05:00:00+00:00

[III, i, 254–75] After conciliatory words with Caesar’s killers, Mark Antony uses very different language over the body of his murdered friend:

O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth,

That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!

Thou art the ruins of the noblest man

That ever livèd in the tide of times.

Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood!

Over thy wounds now do I prophesy –

Which like dumb mouths do ope their ruby lips

To beg the voice and utterance of my tongue –

A curse shall light upon the limbs of men;

Domestic fury and fierce civil strife

Shall cumber all the parts of Italy;

Blood and destruction shall be so in use,

And dreadful objects so familiar,

That mothers shall but smile when they behold

Their infants quartered with the hands of war,

All pity choked with custom of fell deeds;

And Caesar’s spirit, ranging for revenge,

With Ate by his side come hot from hell,

Shall in these confines with a monarch’s voice

Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war,

That this foul deed shall smell above the earth

With carrion men, groaning for burial.

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