julius_caesar_ssml.xml

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<speak>

    <p>
        <s>
            <emphasis>Friends, Romans, countrymen,</emphasis>
            lend me your ears.
        </s>
    </p>
    <break time="1000ms"/>

    <p>
        <s>
            I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
        </s>
    </p>
    <break time="2000ms"/>

    <p>
        <s>
            The evil that men do, lives after them,
            <break time="200ms"/>
            the good is oft interrèd with their bones.
        </s>
    </p>
    <break time="1500ms"/>

    <p>
        <s>
            So let it be with Caesar.
        </s>
    </p>
    <break time="4000ms"/>

    <p>
        <s>
            The noble Brutus hath told you: "Caesar was ambitious."
        </s>
        <s>
            If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
            and grievously hath Caesar answered it.
        </s>
    </p>
    <break time="1000ms"/>

    <p>
        <s>
            Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest,
            <break time="500ms"/>
            for Brutus is an honorable man,
            <break time="200ms"/>
            so are they all,
            <break time="150ms"/>
            all honorable men,
            <break time="500ms"/>
            come I to speak in Caesar’s funeral.
        </s>
    </p>
    <break time="1500ms"/>

    <p>
        <s>
            He was my friend,
            <break time="200ms"/>
            faithful,
            <break time="200ms"/>
            and just to me.
        </s>
    </p>
    <break time="2000ms"/>

    <p>
        <s>
            But Brutus says he was ambitious,
            <break time="500ms"/>
            and Brutus is an honorable man.
        </s>
    </p>
    <break time="1500ms"/>

    <p>
        <s>
            He hath brought many captives home to Rome,
            whose ransoms did the general coffers fill.
        <s>
        </s>
            Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?
        </s>
    </p>
    <break time="2000ms"/>

    <p>
        <s>
            When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept.
            <break time="500ms"/>
        </s>
        <s>
            Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
        </s>
    </p>
    <break time="2300ms"/>

    <p>
        <s>
            Yet Brutus says he was ambitious,
            and Brutus is an honorable man.
        </s>
    </p>
    <break time="1000ms"/>

    <p>
        <s>
            You all did see that on the Lupercal,
            I thrice presented him a kingly crown,
            which he did thrice refuse. Was this ambition?
        </s>
    </p>
    <break time="1500ms"/>

    <p>
        <s>
            Yet Brutus says he was ambitious,
            and, sure, he is an honorable man.
        </s>
    </p>
    <break time="1000ms"/>

    <p>
        <s>
            I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke,
            but here I am to speak what I do know.
        </s>
    </p>
    <break time="1000ms"/>

    <p>
        <s>
            You all did love him once, not without cause.
        </s>
        <s>
            What cause withholds you then to mourn for him?
        </s>
    </p>
    <break time="2000ms"/>

    <p>
        <s>
            O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
            and men have lost their reason.
        </s>
        <s>
            Bear with me.
        </s>
    </p>
    <break time="2000ms"/>

    <p>
        <s>
            My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,
            <break time="2000ms"/>
            and I must pause,
            <break time="800ms"/>
            till it come back to me.
        </s>
    </p>

</speak>