OMG I just hit another major milestone in my adaptation of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar for the FFXIV universe: Julỹs Kaĩsar by Liam Meri'a Morvelet.
It's Marq Ant'wyns' famous speech:
Friends, Allagans, countrymen, lend me your ears.
I come to bury Kaĩsar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interrèd with their bones.
So let it be with Kaĩsar. The noble Brwtus
Hath told you Kaĩsar was ambitious.
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Kaĩsar answered it.
Here, under leave of Brwtus and the rest
(For Brwtus is an honorable man;
So are they all, all honorable men),
Come I to speak in Kaĩsar's funeral.
He was my friend, faithful and just to me,
But Brwtus says he was ambitious,
And Brwtus is an honorable man.
He hath brought many captives home to Allag,
Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill.
Did this in Kaĩsar seem ambitious?
When that the poor have cried, Kaĩsar hath wept;
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
Yet Brwtus says he was ambitious,
And Brwtus is an honorable man.
You all did see that on the Drunken Feast
I thrice presented him epaulets,
Which he did thrice refuse. Was this ambition?
Yet Brwtus says he was ambitious,
And sure he is an honorable man.
I speak not to disprove what Brwtus spoke,
But here I am to speak what I do know.
You all did love him once, not without cause.
What cause withholds you, then, to mourn for him?—
O judgment, thou art fled to vile beastkin,
And men have lost their reason!—Bear with me;
My heart is in the coffin there with Kaĩsar,
And I must pause till it come back to me.
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Ellis C. A. Arcwolf (Author)
