ABSTRACT
I57 not let it slippe, but toke upon him to make Ctzsars funeral sermon, as Consul, of a Consul, friend, of a friend, and kinsman, of a kinsman (for Antony was partly his kinsman) and to use craft againe. And thus he said 1:
I do not thinke it meete (0 Citizens) that the burialJ praise of suche a man, should rather be done by me, than by the whole country. For what you have altogither for the love of hys vertue given him by decree, aswelJ the Senate as the people, I thinke your voice, and not Antonies, oughte to expresse it. This he uttered with sad and heavy cheare, and wyth a framed
voice, declared every thing, chiefly upon the decree, whereby he was made a God, holy and inviolate, father of the country, benefactor and governor, and suche a one, as never in al things they entituled other man to the like. At every of these words Antonic directed his countenance and hands to CfEsars body, and with vehemencie of words opened the fact. At every title he gave an addition, with briefe speach, mixte with pi tie and indignation. And when the decree named him father of the Country, then he saide: This is the testimony of our duety.
