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Quotation from Mark Antony's Funeral Oration ("Friends, Romans, countrymen") by William Shakespeare
“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 Caesar, And I must pause till it come back to me.”
Mark Antony's Funeral Oration ("Friends, Romans, countrymen"), Act 3, Scene 2 (close of the first speech) (Project Gutenberg #1522, modern spelling)
Antony breaks off in apparent grief, giving the crowd time to reach his conclusion themselves.
Citation: "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 Caesar, And I must pause till it come back to me." — William Shakespeare, Mark Antony's Funeral Oration ("Friends, Romans, countrymen"), Act 3, Scene 2 (close of the first speech) (Project Gutenberg #1522, modern spelling). (id friends-romans-countrymen-q4)
Portrait: Marc Antony's Oration at Caesar's Funeral by George Edward Robertson, George Edward Robertson b. 1864, Public domain.
