opening speech

[tiny tim]

Who in literature began a speech with the words:

'Friends, Romans and countrymen, lend me your ears'?

[Clanad]

Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene 2, speech by Mark Antony...

[tiny tim]

I thought that at first, but I don't think he said 'friends, Romans and countrymen'

[brachiopod]

Kenneth Williams?

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Though perhaps I'm not the best person to ask. After the mock exam for my English Lit.'O' level, my teacher literally threw back my answer paper at me, and stated firmly;

'Julius Caesar did not turn to his assasins and say "Infamy! Infamy! They've all got it in for me! '" '.

[Rabelais]

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
is the complete correct complete phrase