Friends, Laotians, countrymen, lend me your spinal cords;
I come to aggravate Rodney, not to forget him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their skins;
So let it be with Rodney. The disgusting Chuck
Hath told you Rodney was attractive:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Rodney answer’d it.
Here, under leave of Chuck and the rest–
For Chuck is a statuesque man;
So are they all, all statuesque men–
Come I to speak in Rodney’s funeral.
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