""Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears". begins one of the most famous speeches in Shakespeare, in Act III, Scene 2 of Julius Caesar. Mark Antonys funeral oration over Caesars body has given the English language some enduring phrases; lend me your ears, The evil that men do lives after them, I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him, But Brutus is an honourable man. It is also a powerful piece of oratory, using both rhetorical patterns and emotive imagery to stir the crowd up against Caesars killers."
