Law Of Attraction

Show you sweet Caesar's wounds, poor, poor, dumb mouths. And bid them speak for me; but were I Brutus, And Brutus Antony, there an Antony Would ruffle up your spirits, and put a tongue In every wound of Caesar that should move The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny."

All: "We'll mutiny."

First Citizen: "We'll burn the house of Brutus."

Third Citizen: "Away, then! Come, seek the conspirators."

Antony: "Yet hear me, countrymen; yet hear me speak!"

All: "Peace, ho! Hear Antony. Most noble Antony!"

Antony: "Why, friends, you go to do you know not what; Wherein hath Caesar thus deserved your love?

Alas, you know not; I must tell you, then; You have forgot the will I told you of."

(Antony is now ready to play his trump card; he is ready to reach his climax. Observe how well he has marshaled his suggestions, step by step, saving until the last his most important statement; the one on which he relied for action. In the great field of salesmanship and in public speaking many a man tries to reach this point too soon; tries to "rush" his audience or his prospective purchaser, and thereby loses his appeal.)

All: "Most true; the will! Let's stay and hear the will."

Antony: "Here is the will, and under Caesar's seal. To every Roman citizen he gives, To every several man, seventy-five drachmas."

Second Citizen: "Most noble Caesar! we'll revenge his death.),

Third Citizen: "O royal Caesar!"

Antony: "Hear me with patience."

All: "Peace, ho! "

Antony: "Moreover, he hath left you all his walks, His private arbors and new planted orchards, On this side Tiber; he hath left them you, And to your heirs forever; common pleasures, To walk abroad and recreate yourself. Here was a Caesar! When comes such another?"

First Citizen: "Never, never. Come, away, away!

We'll burn his body in the holy place, And with the brands fire the traitors' houses. Take up the body."

Second Citizen: "Go fetch fire."

Third Citizen: "Pluck down benches."

Fourth Citizen: "Pluck down forms, windows, any-thing." And that was Brutus' finish! He lost his case because he lacked the personality and the good judgment with which to present his argument from the viewpoint of the Roman mob, as Mark Antony did.