From the blog of Alister Cockburn
I come to bury Agile, not to praise him;
The evil that men do lives after them,
The good is oft interred with their bones,
So let it be with Agile … The noble Waterfall
Hath told you Agile was ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Agile answered it …
Here, under leave of Waterfall and the rest,
(For Waterfall is an honourable thing;
So are they all; all honourable things)
Come I to speak in Agile’s funeral …
He was my friend, faithful and just to me:
But Waterfall says he was ambitious;
And Waterfall is an honourable thing….
He hath brought many projects home to Rome,
Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill:
Did this in Agile seem ambitious?
When that the poor have cried, Agile hath wept:
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:
Yet Waterfall says he was ambitious;
And Waterfall is an honourable man.
I speak not to disprove what Waterfall spoke,
But here I am to speak what I do know.
You all did love him once, not without cause:
What cause withholds you then to mourn for him?
O judgement! thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason…. Bear with me;
My heart is in the coffin there with Agile,
And I must pause till it come back to me.
(Julius Caesar, Act 3 Scene 2)
