...Caesar; holding out hope for all of Rome, he proclaims: here's a parchment with the seal of Caesar, I found it in his closet, 'tis his will. Let but the...wills, Bequeathing it as a rich legacy Unto their issue (Julius Caesar, 3.2.128-37). He puts it aside, only to pull it out again: Here is the will, and under...

...remains in the minds of the plebeians, as Antony intends, Let but the commons hear this testament . . . And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds, And...Bequeathing it as a rich legacy Unto their issue. (Caesar 3.2.131, 133-8) but the monument he makes of Caesar's body speeds a violent descent into civil...

...hands is merely the blood of murder: "Let but the commons hear [Caesar's] testament," he predicts, "And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds,...sacred blood, /Yea, beg a hair of him for memory" (3. 2. 134-38). 92 The exact nature of the sacredness Antony attributes to Caesar is somewhat confused...

...and you, Than I will wrong such honourable men. But here's a parchment with the seal of Caesar, — I found it in his closet, — 'tis his will: Let but...commons hear this testament, — Which, pardon me, 1 do not mean to read, — And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds, And dip their napkins in...