Welcome back to the Daily Poem here on the Close Reeds Podcast Network.

Today's poem is another example of something I like to turn to occasionally here on this podcast,

and that is a passage from Shakespeare.

I have read, for example, the Agincourt speech from Henry V.

And today's poem is a series of lines from Act 3, Scene 2 of Julius Caesar.

Here on the Close Reeds Podcast Network, we have been going through Julius Caesar over on our podcast,

The Play's The Thing.

Heidi White, Matt Bianco, and Brian Phillips have been going through that one act at a time.

And today, actually, we're going to put up our conversation, or their conversation, rather, on

Act 3.

And Act 3 includes one of Shakespeare's most famous speeches.

And so I thought that I would read lines 70 through 104 of this famous speech.

This is from Mark Antony, of course.

You'll recognize it.

It goes like this.

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.

I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.

The evil that men do lives after them.

The good is oft interred with their bones.

So let it be with Caesar.

The noble Brutus hath told you Caesar was ambitious.

If it were so, it was a grievous fault, and grievously hath Caesar answered it.

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