CASCA:Three or four
wenches where I stood cried “Alas, good soul!” and
forgave him with all their hearts. But there’s no
heed to be taken of them; if Caesar had stabbed
their mothers, they would have done no less.

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English dramatist and poet

Julius Caesar, Act 1, sc. 2, l. 282ff (1.2.282–286) (1599)
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