...And bid them speak jar me : but were I tif utas, And Brutus Antony, there were an Antony Would rnffie up your spirits, and put a tongue In every wound of...should move The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny. Hamlet, Ш. 4, Look you, how pale he glares ! His form and cause conjoin'd, preaching to stones, Would...

...yourselves do know — Show you sweet Cesar's wounds, poor, poor, dumb mouths, And bid them speak for rre. But, were I Brutus, And Brutus Antony, there were...ruffle up your spirits, and put a tongue In every wound of,Cesar, that should move The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny. XXII. — Fahtaffs Soliloquy on Honour....

...läßt. Die Wirkung dieses Bildes wird durch Wiederholungen auf der Wort- und Lautebene verstärkt: "I tell you that which you yourselves do know; / Show...poor poor dumb mouths, / And bid them speak for me." (III.ii.226-228)39 Die intensive Bildlichkeit und Musikalität dieser Verse zielt auf die Affektbewegung....

...tears. Then, having earlier suggested that the Romans "kiss dead Caesar's wounds," Antony offers to "put a tongue / In every wound of Caesar that should move / The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny" (JC 3.2.134, 230-32). He means of course that he will interpret the wounds in such a way as to move...

...honourable. (211-213) He is no orator like Brutus; he is just "a plain blunt man" (219) who loves his friend: But were I Brutus, And Brutus Antony, there were an...should move The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny. (227-231) This is enough for the crowd, but as they set off to kill the conspirators, Antony calls...

...of him For I have neither writ, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech To stir men's blood. I only speak right on. I tell you that which you yourselves do know, 47 mouths, And bid them speak for me. But were I Brutus, And Brutus Antony, there were an Antony Would...

...him: For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, nd I'll swear I kill'd him. Cesar's wounds, poor poor dumb mouths, And bid them speak for me: but were I Brutus, And Brutus Antony,...

...mutiny. For I have neither writ, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech To stir men's blood; I only speak right on. I tell...should move The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny. CROWD: We'll mutiny! We'll burn the house of Brutus. Away then! Come, seek the conspirators. If there...

...him. For I have neither writ, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech To stir men's blood; I only speak right on. I tell...should move The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny. (m. ii. 217-30) This classic version of what Curtius calls the 'protestation of incapacity'6 means,...

...speech included the following lines of Mark Antony's peroration (Julius Caesar, Hl.ii. 11. 221-25): But were I Brutus And Brutus Antony, there were an...should move The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny. 14. See n. 16, ch. 5 and Appendix, "Recitation Pieces." 15. Gilbert, in impersonating the dying soldier,...