In the shape of progeny, who reap
The benefit of their life insurance.
So let it be with the deceased.
Brutus hath told you that Cæsar was ambitious,
What does Brutus know about it?
It is none of his funeral.
But that it isn’t is no fault of the undersigned.
Here under leave of you I come to
Make a speech at Cæsar’s funeral.
He was my friend, faithful and just to me;