Antony wrote:
Friends, Kyhmers, countrymen, lend me your ears. I come to bury RMG, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them, the good is oft interréd with their bones; so let it be with RMG…
The noble Imp-Chan hath told you RMG was ambitious: if it were so, it was a grievous fault, And grievously hath RMG answered it… Here, under leave of Imp-Chan and the rest, (for Imp-Chan is an honourable man; so are they all; all honourable men) come I to speak in RMG's funeral….
He was my friend, faithful and just to me: but Imp-Chan says he was ambitious, and Imp-Chan is an honourable man…. He hath brought many captives home to Kyhm, whose ransoms did the general coffers fill: did this in RMG seem ambitious? When that the poor have cried, RMG hath wept. Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. Yet Imp-Chan says he was ambitious, and Imp-Chan is an honourable man. You all did see that in the Midlands I thrice presented him a kingly crown, which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition? Yet Imp-Chan says he was ambitious, and, sure, he is an honourable man.
I speak not to disprove what Imp-Chan 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 brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason…. Bear with me; my heart is in the coffin there with RMG, and I must pause till it come back to me.
Methinks there is much reason in his sayings.