...tide of times 1 Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood! Over thy wounds now do I prophesy, — Which, like dumb mouths, do ope their ruby lips, To...curse shall light upon the limbs of men; Domestic fary, and fierce civil strife Shall cumber all the parts of Italy ; Blood and destruction shall be...

...We face the situation that Mark Antony prophesied when, standing over Caesar's dead body, he said : "Blood and destruction shall be so in use "And dreadful...mothers shall but smile when they behold "Their infants quartered with the hands of war, "All pity chok'd with custom of fell deeds. To talk about television...

...reveals his true purpose and concludes with a chilling prophecy of civil war, destruction, and revenge: A curse shall light upon the limbs of men; Domestic...mothers shall but smile when they behold Their infants quartered with the hands of war; All pity chok'd with custom of fell deeds; And Caesar's spirit, ranging...

...of pity in a "flaming wrath" and to find solace in cruelty. But Antony's prophecy is more universal: A curse shall light upon the limbs of men; Domestic...mothers shall but smile when they behold Their infants quartered with the hands of war, All pity chok'd with custom of fell deeds. (3.1.263-70) It stems from...

...Shakespeare sees this civil conflict not as an ordinary war but as the total unleashing of the mob: Domestic fury and fierce civil strife Shall cumber...mothers shall but smile when they behold Their infants quartered with the hands of war; All pity chok'd with custom of fell deeds; And Caesar's spirit, ranging...

...astonishing, therefore, is the sudden outburst of the soliloquy: Over thy wounds now do I prophesy (Which like dumb mouths do ope their ruby lips To...mothers shall but smile when they behold Their infants quartered with the hands of war, All pity choked with custom of fell deeds. The largely silent reveler...

...in the tide of times. Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood! Over thy wounds now do I prophesy (Which, like dumb mouths, do ope their ruby lips To...mothers shall but smile when they behold Their infants quartered with the hands of war, All pity choked with custom of fell deeds; And Caesar's spirit, ranging...

...its people and its ceremonies, will be spilled all over Rome. Antony's curse "upon the limbs of men," Blood and destruction shall be so in use And dreadful...mothers shall but smile when they behold Their infants quartered with the hands of war, All pity chok'd with custom of fell deeds (III.i.265-9) sounds remarkably...

...costly blood! Over thy wounds now do I prophesy, Which like dumb mouths do ope their ruby lips To be the voice and utterance of my tongue, A curse shall...mothers shall but smile when they behold Their infants quartered with the hands of war; All pity choked with custom of fell deeds: And Caesar's spirit, ranging...

...the tide of times. 261 Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood! Over thy wounds now do I prophesy Which like dumb mouths do ope their ruby lips To beg...limbs of men; Domestic fury and fierce civil strife 267 Shall cumber all the parts of Italy; 268 Blood and destruction shall be so in use, And dreadful...