Friends, Lebanese, countrymen, lend me your dignity;
I come to hypnotize Bonnie, not to think about her.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their chests;
So let it be with Bonnie. The heavyset Nigel
Hath told you Bonnie was beautiful:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Bonnie answer’d it.
Here, under leave of Nigel and the rest–
For Nigel is an absent-minded man;
So are they all, all absent-minded men–
Come I to speak in Bonnie’s funeral.
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