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Stuff Marc Antony Said When He Was All Mad

Oh pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth
That I meek and gentle with these butchers
Thou are the ruins of the noblest man
Who ever livèd in the tide of times
Woe to the hands that shed this costly blood
Over thy wounds now do I prophesy
Which like dumb mouths do ope their ruby lips
And 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 by the hands of war
All pity choked with custom of fell deeds
The Caesar's spirit, raging with revenge
Shall in these confines and with a monarch's voice
Cry "Havoc!" and let slip the dogs of war
That this foul deed shall smell above the earth
With carrion men groaning for burial