he answers,
I wish we may: but yet I have a mind
That fears him much; and my misgiving still
Falls shrewdly to the purpose.
(III. i. 144.)
Brutus seeks to win Antony with general considerations of right and justice, Cassius employs a more effective argument:
Your voice shall be as strong as any man’s
In the disposing of new dignities.
(III. i. 177.)
He altogether disapproves of the permission granted to Antony to pronounce the funeral oration. He grasps the situation when the civil war breaks out much better than Brutus: