. Golden leaves from the British and American dramatic poets. e degreesBy which he did ascend. . Mark Antonys Apostrophe to CiESARs , pardon me, thou piece of bleeding I am meek and gentle with these butchersThou art the ruins of the noblest ever lived in the tide of to the hand that shed this costly blood !Over thy wounds now do I prophesy,—Which, like dumb mouths, do ope their ruby beg the voice and utterance of my tongue;—A curse shall light upon the limbs of men;Domestic fury, and fierce civil cumber all the parts of Italy :Blood and


. Golden leaves from the British and American dramatic poets. e degreesBy which he did ascend. . Mark Antonys Apostrophe to CiESARs , pardon me, thou piece of bleeding I am meek and gentle with these butchersThou art the ruins of the noblest ever lived in the tide of to the hand that shed this costly blood !Over thy wounds now do I prophesy,—Which, like dumb mouths, do ope their ruby beg the voice and utterance of my tongue;—A curse shall light upon the limbs of men;Domestic fury, and fierce civil cumber all the parts of Italy :Blood and destruction shall be so in use,x-d dreadful objects so mothers shall but smile, when they beholdTheir infants quartered with the hands of war;All pity choked with custom of fell deeds:And Caesars spirit, ranging for Ate by his side, come hot from in these confines, with a monarchs Havoc, and let slip the dogs of war ;That this foul deed shall smell above the eanhWith carrion men, groaning for MARK ANTONY OVER 0^=1 ARS BODY. SHAKSPEARE. 59 The Character of Brutus. This was the noblest Roman of them all;All the conspirators, save only that they did in envy of great Cassar;He, only, in a general honest common good to all, made one of Hfe was gentle; and the elementsSo mixed in him, that Nature might stand say to all the world. This zuas a man ! MERCHANT OF VENICE. The Sluality of Mercy. The quality of mercy is not strained;It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heavenUpon the place beneath : it is twice blessed;r« blesseth him that gives, and him that takes:Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomesThe throned monarch better than his crown;His sceptre shows the force of temporal attribute to awe and doth sit the dread and fear of kings;But mercy is above this sceptred is enthroned in the hearts of is an attribute to God himself;And earthly power


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