Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears!

  • ‘Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears! I come to bury Caesar not to praise him.’
  • The phrase is from from William Shakespeares’ Play, Julius Caesar (Act 3, Scene 2). It is the beginning of the speech by Mark Anthony at the funeral of Julius Caesar.

 

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