...friend, faithful and just to me; But Brutus says he was ambitious, And Brutus is an honourable man. 80 He hath brought many captives home to Rome, Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill: Did this in Caesar seem ambitious? When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept; Ambition...

...friend, faithful and just to me: But Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man. He hath brought many captives home to Rome Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill: Did this in Caesar seem ambitious? When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition...

...ambitious are repeated, each time with greater irony, as the phrase is juxtaposed with Caesar's deeds: “Did this in Caesar seem ambitious? When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept.” Meaning is inverted to be its contrary via sardonic repetition: “Yet Brutus...

...friend, faithful and just to me: But Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honorable man. He hath brought many captives home to Rome, Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill: Did this in Caesar seem ambitious? When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition...

...honourable man. There is a slightly heavier stress on the word 'honourable', but still no hint of irony. He hath brought many captives home to Rome, Whose ransoms, did the general coffers fill: Did this in Caesar seem ambitious? When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept— sheer clap-trap,...

...friend, faithful and just to me. But Brutus says he was ambitious, And Brutus is an honourable man. He hath brought many captives home to Rome, Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill. Did this in Caesar seem ambitious? When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept. Ambition...