Julius Caesar

Caesar refuses the crown each time Antony offers it. The crowd roars its approval.

I saw Mark Antony offer him a crown...he put it by once: but...to my thinking, he would fain have had it. Then he offered it to him again: then he put it by again: but... he was very loath to lay his fingers off it. And then he offered it the third time; he put it the third time by....