That I am meek and gentle with these butchers
Thou art the ruins of the noblest man
That ever lived in the tide of times.
Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood!
Over thy wounds now do I prophesy
(which like dumb mouths do ope their ruby lips,
To beg the voice and utterance of my tongue),
A curse shall light upon the limbs of men;
Domestic fury and fierce civil strife
Shall cumber all the parts of Italy;
Blood and destruction shall be so in use
And dreadful objects so familiar,
That mothers shall but smile when they behold
Their infants quartered with the hands of w
All pity chok'd with custom of fell deeds;
And Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge,
With ate by his side come hot from hell,
Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice
Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war,
That this foul deeds shall smell above the earth
With carrison men groaning for burial."
Mark Anthony, Act 3, scene 1, line 263-275
In this passage, shows Anthony's fierce and deep loyalty he has to Caesar, and that he is capable of deep thought, unlike how he is thought to be by others, such as Brutus. For example, Brutus says that Anthony is nothing but a limb to Caesar, meaning that Anthony wouldn't be able to do anything After Caesar is dead. Brutus, however thought that the only thing Anthony could do is to kill himself for the sake of Julius Caesar, but Brutus finds even that unlikely, because Anthony is used to Company, games, and Parties. This is proved completely wrong, in this passage, as he grieves Caesar's death, and makes a soliloquy about what he is going to do to avenge Caesar's death.
