Thou
shalt not back till I have borne this corse
Into
the market-place: there shall I try,
In
my oration, how the people take
The
cruel issue of these bloody men;
-Marcus Antonius
Julius Caesar Act III, scene i, line 292
First off, corse is corpse. Secondly, the corpse herein is
Julius Caesar. Mark Antony is not one of the conspirators who killed Caesar;
far from it. Cassius, Brutus, and company have just killed Caesar, and Mark
Antony is going to go eulogize the fallen leader and turn Rome against Cassius,
Brutus and company. Antony’s eulogy is one of the more famous of Will’s
speeches. It’s that Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears
speech.
In this scene Mark Antony is talking to a servant of
Octavius Caesar and asking him for help with the corpse before the servant goes
back to Octavius.
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