but despite uncertainty over the true words this phrase was made famous by William Shakespeare.
A poem that contains the line "My cot alas that dear old shady home / Where oft in youthful sport I played" swaps the third word in this phrase with "Healy;" that is an early James Joyce poem on the death of Charles Parnell. Before this line is spoken, its speaker questions if another character "doth not...bootless kneel?" This line contradicts the account of Plutarch, who says the speaker was silent, and Suetonius, who asserted that these words were instead "Kai su, teknon?" Lhomond's De Viris Illustribus claims that it was instead "tu quoque, fili mi?" but despite uncertainty over the true words this phrase was made famous by William Shakespeare. FTP, name these words supposedly spoken on the Ides of March by Julius Caesar.
A poem that contains the line "My cot alas that dear old shady home
{Et tu, Brute}? (accept {Et tu, Healy?} early) (2) [AH]