Pugsley
TheBrownDog
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I come to bury Dumbarse, 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 . The noble Ant Bear
Hath told you Dumbarse was ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Dumbarse answer’d it.
Here, under leave of Ant Bear and the rest–
For Ant Bear is an honourable man;
So are they all, all honourable men–
Come I to speak in Dumbarse’s funeral.
He was my friend, faithful and just to me:
But Ant Bear says he was ambitious;
And Ant Bear is an honourable man.
He hath brought many captives home to Rome
Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill:
Did this in Dumbarse seem ambitious?
When that the poor have cried, Dumbarse hath wept:
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:
Yet Ant Bear says he was ambitious;
And Ant Bear is an honourable man.
You all did see that on the Lupercal
I thrice presented him a kingly crown,
Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?
Yet Ant Bear says he was ambitious;
And, sure, he is an honourable man.
I speak not to disprove what Ant Bear spoke,
But here I am to speak what I do know.
You all did love him once, not without cause:
What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him?
O judgement! thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason. Bear with me;
My heart is in the coffin there with Dumbarse,
And I must pause till it come back to me.
I am glad you approve ND
I come to bury Dumbarse, 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 . The noble Ant Bear
Hath told you Dumbarse was ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Dumbarse answer’d it.
Here, under leave of Ant Bear and the rest–
For Ant Bear is an honourable man;
So are they all, all honourable men–
Come I to speak in Dumbarse’s funeral.
He was my friend, faithful and just to me:
But Ant Bear says he was ambitious;
And Ant Bear is an honourable man.
He hath brought many captives home to Rome
Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill:
Did this in Dumbarse seem ambitious?
When that the poor have cried, Dumbarse hath wept:
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:
Yet Ant Bear says he was ambitious;
And Ant Bear is an honourable man.
You all did see that on the Lupercal
I thrice presented him a kingly crown,
Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?
Yet Ant Bear says he was ambitious;
And, sure, he is an honourable man.
I speak not to disprove what Ant Bear spoke,
But here I am to speak what I do know.
You all did love him once, not without cause:
What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him?
O judgement! thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason. Bear with me;
My heart is in the coffin there with Dumbarse,
And I must pause till it come back to me.
I am glad you approve ND
