But what of Cicero? shall we sound him? I think he will stand very strong with us.

O, let us have him, for his silver hairs Will purchase us a good opinion And buy men’s voices to commend our deeds: It shall be said, his judgment ruled our hands; Our youths and wildness shall no whit appear, But all be buried in his gravity.

O, name him not: let us not break with him; For he will never follow anything That other men begin.

Decius, well urged: I think it is not meet, Mark Antony, so well beloved of Caesar, Should outlive Caesar: we shall find of him A shrewd contriver; and, you know, his means, If he improve them, may well stretch so far As to annoy us all: which to prevent, Let Antony and Caesar fall together.

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