...March, the Ides of March remember. Did not great Julius bleed for justice' sake? What villain touched his body, that did stab And not for justice? What,...shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes, (1v.2..70-6) This desperate clinging to an illusion, which the play has already exposed as hollow,...

...enterprise, as well as Cassius' particular action: "Did not great Julius bleed for justice' sake?" (19) and: shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes,...honours For so much trash as may be grasped thus? (23-26) For Cassius the attack is personal, and he descends to direct insult. He is, he says, an "older"...

...March, the ides of March remember: Did not great Julius bleed for justice' sake? What villain toucht canst thou have to-night? ROMEO. Th'exchange of thy...were to give again. ROMEO. Wouldst thou withdraw it? bay the moon, Than such a Roman. CASSIUS. Brutus, bay not me, — I'll not endure it: you forget yourself,...

...tainted money at two removes which he would refuse on principle to collect himself directly: . . . What, shall one of us, That struck the foremost man...shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes? (rv.iii. 21-4) In so far as he is willing to accept the money so vilely raised, the answer has to be...

...remember. Did not great Julius bleed for justice sake? What villain touched his body that did strike, And not for justice? What, shall one of us That struck...as may be grasped thus? I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman. CASSIUS Brutus, bait me not, I'll not endure it. You forget yourself,...

...ever most at home with his ethical abstractions. He treasures to his heart the 'justice' of his cause: Remember March, the Ides of March remember: Did not...as may be grasped thus? I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman. (iv. iii. 18) The quarrel is exquisitely human and pathetic. As their...

...March, the ides of March remember: Did not great Julius bleed for justice' sake? What villain toucht l bear in triumph to the king, Leaving thy trunk for...his army of Irish, with drum and colours. DUKE OF bay the moon, Than such a Roman. CASSIUS. Brutus, bay not me, — I'll not endure it: you forget yourself,...

...the ides of March, remember. / Did not great Julius bleed for justice' sake? / What villain touched his body, that did stab, / And not for justice? What...we now / Contaminate our fingers with base bribes?" (70— 76). Three different emotions and thoughts are mixed in Brutus's angry appeal. He feels now,...

...remember. Did not great Julius bleed for justice' sake? What villain touched his body, that did stab, 20 And not for justice? What, shall one of us, That struck...bribes, And sell the mighty space of our large honours 25 For so much trash as may be grasped thus? I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman....

...have been condemned. The pathetic irony of Brutus' self-deception breaks forth in all its vehemence: Remember March, the ides of March remember: Did not...as may be grasped thus ? I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman. (IV.iii.i8-28) Through these lines comes the vain effort of a man...