Read the excerpt from act 3, scene 1, of Julius Caesar
[ANTONY] First, Marcus Brutus, will I shake with you-
Next, Caius Cassius, do I take your hand-
Now, Decius Brutus, yours;-now yours, Metellus,-
Yours, Cinna;-and my valiant Casca, yours;-
Though last, not last in love, yours, good Trebonius.
Gentlemen all,-alas, what shall I say?
My credit now stands on such slippery ground
That one of two bad ways you must conceit me:
Either a coward or a flatterer.
That I did love thee, Caesar, O, 'tis true.
If then thy spirit look upon us now,
Shall it not grieve thee dearer than thy death,
To see thy Antony making his peace,
Shaking the bloody fingers of thy foes-
Most noble! In the presence of thy corse?
Mark this and return
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what are the central ideas of this soliloquy?
