Shakespeare, 4th February

I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts:

I am no orator, as Brutus is;

But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man,  .   .   .

For I have neither wit, nor word, nor worth,

Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech,

To stir men's blood: I only speak right on.

Julius Caesar, Act iii., Sc. 2.