Antony’s lines from Act III, Scene 2 of Julius Caesar
[1] 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 often interred with their bones;
[5] So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus
Has told you Caesar was ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously has Caesar answered it.
Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest–
[10] For Brutus is an honourable man;
So are they all, all honourable men–
Come I to speak in Caesar’s funeral.
He was my friend, faithful and just to me:
But Brutus says he was ambitious;
[15] And Brutus is an honourable man.
He has brought many captives home to Rome
Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill:
Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?
When the poor have cried, Caesar has wept:
[20] Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.
You all did see that on the Lupercal
I thrice presented him a kingly crown,
[25] Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And, sure, he is an honourable man.
I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke,
But here I am to speak what I do know.
[30] You all did love him once, not without cause:
What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him?
O judgment! you are fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason. Bear with me;
My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,
[35] And I must pause till it come back to me.
Adaptado de: SHAKESPEARE, W. The Life and Death of Julius Caesar. Disponível em: . Acesso em: 12 nov. 2016.
A palavra sure (l. 27), como empregada no texto, manifesta
