...grace in captive bonds his chariot- wheels ? You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things! O, you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome, Knew you...walls and battlements, To towers and windows, yea, to chimney-tops, Your infants in your arms, and there have sat The live-long day, with patient expectation,...

...revisionist history that is lamented by Marullus when he learns that the crowd has gathered to praise Caesar: "O you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome, / Knew you not Pompey? Many a time and oft / Have you climbed up to walls and battlements . . . / To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome" (1.2.37-39...

...grace in captive bonds his chariot wheels? You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things! O you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome, Knew you not Pompey? Many a time and oft Have you climbed up to walls and battlements, To towers and windows, yea, to chimney-tops, Your infants in your...

...grace in captive bonds his chariot-wheels? You blocks, you stones; you worse than senseless things! О ysic? SIMPLE. Marry, sir, the pittie-ward, the park-ward, chimney-tops, Your infants in your arms, and there have sat The live-long day, with patient expectation,...

...deafening response to it. Like most characters in Renaissance plays, Marullus gives his audience an earful. Many a time and oft Have you climb'd up to walls and battlements, To towers and windows, yea, to chimney-tops, Your infants in your arms, and there have sat The livelong day, with patient expectation,...

...grace in captive bonds his chariot wheels ? You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things I O you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome, Knew you not Pompey ? Many a rime and oft Have you climbed up to walls and battlements, To towers and Windows, yea, to chimney-tops,...

...you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome, 37 Knew you not Pompey? Many a time and oft Have you climbed up to walls and battlements, To towers and windows, yea to chimney tops, 1 5 naughty wicked 1 6 out angry 1 7 be out ( 1 ) be angry, (2) have worn-out shoes; mend (with pun...

...grace in captive bonds his chariot-wheels? You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things! О may'd: God and good angels fight on Richmond's side; And Richard falls in height of all his pri chimney-tops, Your infants in your arms, and there have sat The live-long day, with patient expectation,...

...windows filled with ladies as on the solemn day of the Pageant.' (Epilogue to Westward Hoe, 1605.) '. . . Many a time and oft Have you climb'd up to walls and battlements, To towers and windows, yea, to chimney-tops, Your infants in your arms, and there have sat The livelong day, with patient expectation,...

...'Fire' is also to be associated with 'pity' and 'weeping'. In Act I the Tribunes address the crowd: O you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome Knew you not Pompey? (ri 41) The idea of 'hardness' is the reverse of passion's fire. The citizens' 'hearts' will not melt...