Parody of Mark Antony's funeral oration in JULIUS CAESAR

[menelvagor1939]

As a new member, I wonder if anyone has ever come across the following
parody of Mark Antony's funeral oration in JULIUS CAESAR which begins
as follows:

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I will return them next Saturday.
I come to bury Caesar because the times are hard
And his folks can't afford to hire an undertaker.
The evil that men do lives after them
In the shape of their progeny
Who reap the benefit of their life insurance.

That's all I can remember. It was in an earlly twentieth or late
nineteenth miscellany which also included the following mnemonic for
remembering the order of books in the Bible:

The great Jehovah speaks to us
In Genesis and Exodus,
Leviticus and Numbers see,
Followed by Deuteronomy.
Joshua and Judges
Sway the land.
Ruth gleans a sheaf
With trembling hand.
Samuel and numerous Kings appear
Whose Chronicles we wondering hear.

There is more, of course, but I only remember bits of what follows.

Of course, the book in question has long since disappeared. Has anyone
interested in trivia of this sort ever come across either of these
passages, perhaps in a used bookstore collection?

Any help you can give would be gratefully received.

Thanks!

Menelvagor

[Graham J Weeks]

Google got me

NAMES AND ORDER of the
       BOOKS of the OLD TESTAMENT

         The GREAT JEHOVAH speaks to us,

          In Genesis and Exodus,
         Leviticus and Numbers see,
         Followed by Deuteronomy.

         Joshua and Judges sway the land,
         Ruth gleans a sheaf with trembling hand,
         Samuel and numerous kings appear,
         Whose Chronicles we wondering hear;
         Ezra and Nehemiah now
         Esther the beauteous mourner show;
         Job speaks in sighs, David in Psalms,
         The Proverbs teach to scatter alms.
         Ecclesiastes then comes on,
         And the sweet song of Solomon.
         Isaiah, Jeremiah then
         With Lamentations takes his pen.
         Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea’s lyres
         Swell Joel, Amos, Obadiah’s.
        Next Jonah, Mieah, Nahum come,
         And lofty Habakkuk finds room,
         Rapt Zephaniah, Haggai calls,
         While Zechariah builds the walls;
         And Malachi, with garments rent,
         Concludes the ancient Testament.
                                                                     UNKNOWN,
(sorry).

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menelvagor1939 wrote:
> As a new member, I wonder if anyone has ever come across the following
> parody of Mark Antony's funeral oration in JULIUS CAESAR which begins
> as follows:

<snip>

> Of course, the book in question has long since disappeared. Has anyone
> interested in trivia of this sort ever come across either of these
> passages, perhaps in a used bookstore collection?

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A *used bookstore collection* is Heaven, of course! <s>

...

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are still thinking.
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[menelvagor1939]

Dear Graham,

Thank you very much for finding this! I did do a search but not under
the heading you used. I am grateful to have part of my past restored.

Ben Leonard

[menelvagor1939]

Someone in the Humanities and Shakespeare club located "Mark Antony's
Original Oration" for me. For those interested the URL is as follows:

http://digital.library.pitt.edu/t/text/gifcvtdir/00awk9200m/03300316.tifl.gif

You will find a paragraph devoted to the author Crisswell on this page.
The parody ( with sketch) follows on pp. 316-17.

Ben

[David C Kifer]

Thank you, that was worth reading!
:-)>

It is pleasing to God whenever thou rejoicest or laughest from the bottom of thy
heart.
--Martin Luther (1483-1546)

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(Et brevis pecunia.) [Et breve spatium.]

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