And do you now ftrew flowers in his way, That comes in triumph over Pompey's blood? Be gone Run to your houfes, fall upon your knees, Flav. Go, go, good countrymen; and for that fault Affemble all the poor men of your fort, Draw them to Tyber's bank, and weep your tears 393 [Exeunt Commoners. See, whe're their bafeit metal be not mov'd; They vanih tongue-ty'd in their guiltinefs. Go you down that way tow'rds the Capitol, This way will I. Difrobe the images, If y you do find them (3) deck'd with ceremonies. Mar. May we do fo You know, it is the feast of Lupercal. Flav. It is no matter. Let no images Who elfe would foar above the view of men, annidrovesham el SCENE II. [Exeunt feverally. Enter Cæfar, Antony. For the courfe, Calphurnia, Porcia, Decius, Cicero, Brutus, Caffius, Cafca, a Soothsayer. Caf. Calphurnia Cafca. Peace, ho! Cafar fpeaks.pd | (3)→→deck'd with ceremonies.] Ceremonies, for religious ornaments. Thus afterwards he explains them by Cæfar's trophies .e. fuch as he had dedicated to the Gods. WARBURTON. Caf. Calphurnia Calp. Here, my Lord. Caf. Stand you directly in Antonius way, When he doth run his Courfe Ant. Cæfar. My Lord. Antonius Caf. Forget not in your fpeed, Antonius, To touch Calphurnia; for our Elders fay, The barren, touched in this holy chafe, Shake off their steril curfe. Ant. I fhall remember. When Cafar fays, do this; it is perform'd. Caf. Ha! who calls? Cafea. Bid every noife be ftill. Peace! Yet again. Caf. Who is it in the Prefs, that calls on me? 60 I hear a tongue, fhriller than all the mufick, Cry, Cafar. Speak; Cæfar is turn'd to hear. Bru. A footh-fayer bids you beware the Ides of March. sauded Cef. Set him before me; let me fee his face.bak Caf. Fellow, come from the throng. Look upón Cæfar. Caf. What fay'st thou to me now? Speak once again. Sooth. Beware the Ides of March. Caf. He is a dreamer; let us leave him. Pafs. [Sennet (4). Exeunt Cæfar and Train. SCENE III. Manent Brutus and Caffius. Caf. Will you go fee the order of the Courfe Caf. I pray you, do. et cooled (4) I have here inferted the word Sennet, from the original edition, that I may have an opportunity of retracting a hasty conjecture in one of the marginal directions in Henry VIII. Sen net appears to be a particular tune or mode of martial mufick. Bru Bru. I am not gamefome; I do lack fome part o Of that quick spirit that is in Antony. Let me not hinder, Caffius, your I'll leave you. defires; Caf. Brutus, I do obferve you now of late; And fhew of love, as I was wont to have. Bru. Caffius, Be not deceiv'd: if I have veil'd my look, Of late, with (6) paffions of fome difference, Which give fome foil, perhaps, to my behaviour; Than that poor Brutus, with himself at war, Caf. Then, Brutus, I have much mistook your paffiony By means whereof, this breaft of mine hath buried Thoughts of great value, worthy cogitations. daby! Tell me, good Brutus, can you fee your face392 Bru. No, Caffius; for the eye fees not itfelf, A (8) But by reflexion from fome other things. Caf. 'Tis juft; And it is very much lamented, Brutus, That you have no fuch mirrors, as will turn excha That you might fee your fhadow. I have heard, (5) frange a hand] Strange, is alien, unfamiliar, fuch as might become a stranger. (6)-paffions of fome difference,] With a fluctuation of discor~ dant opinions and defires. A 4 For For that which is not in me?ning foot Caf. Therefore, good Brutus, be prepar'd to hear; That of yourself, which yet you know not of. To all the rout; then hold me dangerous. [Flourish and fhout. Bru. What means this fhouting? I do fear, the People Chufe Cafar for their King. Caf. Ay, do you fear it; Then muft I think, you would not have it fo. Bra. I would not, Caffius; yet I love him well. Set Honour in one eye, and Death i'th' other, For (7) To ftale with ordinary oaths my love, &c.] To invite every new protestor to my affection by the ftale or allurement of customary oaths: Aven (8) And I will look on both indifferently,] This is a contradic tion to the lines immediately fucceeding. If he lov'd honour, more than be fear'd death, how could they be both indifferent to him? Honour thus is but in equal ballance to death, which is not fpeaking at all like Brutus: for, in a foldier of any ordinary pretenfions, honor fhould always preponderate. We must cer tainly read, And I will look on death indifferently. What occafion'd the corruption, I prefume, was, the tranfcribers imagining, the adverb indifferently must be applied to two things oppos'd. But the ufe of the word does not demand it; nor does Shakespeare always apply it fo. In the prefent paffage it fignifies neglectingly; without fear, or concern: And fo Cafca afterwards, again in this act, employs it. And dangers are to me indifferent. I weigh For, let the Gods fo fpeed me, as I love! As well as I do know your outward favour. Arbok jel S I had as lief not be, asilive to be hist We both have fed as well; and we can both s Leap in with me into this angry flood,gaben 245,724 "And fwim to yonder point ?"Upon the word,127, Accoutred as I was, I plunged in, And bid him follow; fo, indeed, he did. Did from the flames of Troy upon his fhoulder I weigh them not norcam deterr'd on the fcore of danger. x) anada comic num ad got shading an A WARBEATON. This long note is very trifling.o. When Brutus first names bonour and drath, he calmly ideclares them indifferent; but as the image kindles in his mind, he fets honour above life is not this natural?sloo and am hurow on |