I kill'd not thee with half so good a will. [Dies. Alarum. Retreat. Enter Octavius, Antony, Messala, Lucilius, and the army. Oct. What man is that? Mes. My master's man. ter? Strato, where is thy mas Stra. Free from the bondage you are in, Messala: And no man else hath honor by his death. Brutus, I thank thee, That thou hast proved Lucilius' saying true. Oct. All that served Brutus, I will entertain them. Fellow, wilt thou bestow thy time with me? 61 Stra. Aye, if Messala will prefer me to you. Oct. Do so, good Messala. Mes. How died my master, Strato? Stra. I held the sword, and he did run on it. envy Did that they did in of great Cæsar; And common good to all, made one of them. So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up 70 71. "in a general honest thought And"; Collier MS., adopted by Craik, reads "in a generous honest thought Of."-I. G. Ib.; out of honest regard for the common good.-C. H. H. Oct. According to his virtue let us use him, With all respect and rites of burial. 80 So call the field to rest, and let's away, GLOSSARY By ISRAEL GOLLANCZ, M.A. ABIDE, answer for, suffer for; III. i. 94; III. ii. 123. ABJECTS, things cast away; IV. i. 37. ABOUT, go about; I. i. 75. -!, set to work; III. ii. 212. ABROAD, about in; III. ii. 258. ACROSS, crossed, folded; II. i. 240. ADDRESS'D, ready; III. i. 29. ADVANTAGE, profit us; III. i. 242. AFTER, afterwards; I. ii. 76. AGAINST, over against, near; I. iii. 20. ALL OVER, one after the other; ALONE, only; IV. iii. 94. ANCHISES, the father of Æneas; ANSWER'D, paid for, atoned for; APT, suitable, likely; II. ii. 97. APT, ready, fit; III. i. 160. impressionable; V. iii. 68. ARRIVE, reach; I. ii. 110. ASTONISH, stun with terror; I. iii. 56. ATE, the goddess of Mischief and Revenge; III. i. 271. AT HAND, in hand; IV. ii. 23. AUGHT, anything; I. ii. 85. AUGURERS, professional interpreters of omens, (originally, diviners by the flight and cries of birds); II. i. 200. BAIT, hunt, chase (Theobald, BATTLES, forces; V. i. 4. BEAR ME, bear from me, receive gaze into, affording their pursuers an opportunity of taking a surer aim; II. i. 205. BEAT, beaten; V. v. 23. BEHAVIORS, Conduct; I. ii. 42. BEHOLDING, beholden; III. ii. 74. BELIKE, perhaps; III. ii. 277. BEND, look; I. ii. 123. BENDING, directing, pressing on; IV. iii. 170. BEST; "you were b.", it were best for you; III. iii. 13. BESTOW, spend; V. v. 61. BETIMES, in good time, early; II. i. 116. BILLS, billets, written documents; V. ii. 1. BIRD OF NIGHT, i. e. the owl; I. iii. 26. BLOOD; "Pompey's b." (prob ably) offspring; Gnæus, Pompey's son, had been killed at Munda, and Cæsar's triumph was in honor of the victory; I. i. 57. BLOODS; "young b.", young people; IV. iii. 262. BONDMAN, used with a play upon "bond," i. e. document ("to cancel a bond"); I. iii. 101. BONES, body, corpse; V. v. 78. BOOTLESS, without avail, to no purpose; III. i. 75. Bosoms; "in their b.", in their confidence; V. i. 7. BREAK WITH, broach the subject to; II. i. 150. BRING, take; III. ii. 278. BROTHER, i. e. brother-in-law, (Cassius having married a sister of Brutus); II. i. 70. BROUGHT, accompanied; I. iii. 1. BRUTUS; "old B.", i. e. Lucius Junius Brutus, who expelled the Tarquins; I. iii. 146; (op. I. ii. 159). BRUTUS; "Decius B.", i. e. Deci mus B., (the error being due to a misprint in Amyot's French translation of Plutarch, copied by North, and hence in Shakespeare); Decimus B. was placed next after Octavius in Cæsar's will; he had served under Cæsar in Gaul, and was made governor of Cisalpine Gaul; I. iii. 148. BUDGE, give way; IV. iii. 44. BUSTLING RUMOR, noise of tumult; II. iv. 18. BY, near, close to; III. i. 162. CALCULATE, speculate upon future events; I. iii. 65. CALPURNIA, Cæsar's fourth wife, (F. 1, "Calphurnia"); I. ii. 1. CARRIONS, Worthless beings (a term of contempt); II. i. 130. CAST; "c. yourself in wonder," i. e. throw yourself into wonder; (?) "dress hastily"; (Jervis conj. "Case," i. e. "encase, clothe yourself”); I. iii. 60. CAUTELOUS, crafty; II. i. 129. CENSURE, judge; III. ii. 17. CEREMONIES, festal ornaments; I. i. 71. -, religious observances; II. i. 197. omens; II. ii. 13. CHAFING WITH, fretting against; CHANCE, happen; II. iv. 31. ; "in his own c.", by some change of disposition towards me; (Warburton, “charge”); IV. ii. 7. -, change countenance; III. i. 24. CHARACTERY, writing; II. i. 308. CHARGE, burden, weigh upon; CHARGES, troops; IV. ii. 48. come to terms; III. i. 202. CLOSET, room; III. ii. 138. COBBLER, botcher, (used quibblingly); I. i. 11. COGNIZANCE, badges of honors; II. ii. 89. COLOSSUS, a gigantic statue said to have stood astride at the entrance of the harbor at Rhodes; I. ii. 136. COLOR, pretext; II. i. 29. COME BY, get possession; II. i. 259. COMPANION, fellow; (used contemptuously); IV. iii. 138. COMPARE, let us compare, we will compare; III. ii. 9. COMPASS, circle, course; V. iii. 25. COMPLEXION, appearance; I. iii. 128. CONCEIT, think of; III. i. 192. CONSTANCY, firmness; II. iv. 6. CONSTRUE, explain; II. i. 307. CONTENT, easy; I. iii. 142. -, calm; IV. ii. 41. glad; V. i. 8. CONTRIVE, conspire, plot; II. iii. 17. CONTRIVER, Schemer, plotter; II. i. 158. CONTROVERSY; "hearts of c.", spirits eager for resistance; I. ii. 109. CORSE, Corpse; III. i. 199. COUCHINGS, stoopings; III. i. 36. COUNTERS, round pieces of metal used in calculations; IV. iii. 80. COURSE; "run his c.", alluding to the course of the Luperci round the city wall; "that day there are diverse noble men's sons, young men, and some of them magistrates themselves, that govern them, which run naked through the city, striking in sport them they meet in their way with leathern thongs" (made of the skins of goats which had been sacrificed.)— North's Plutarch; I. ii. 4. COURTESIES, bowings, bendings of the knee; III. i. 36. CROSS LIGHTNING, forked lightning; I. iii. 50. CULL OUT, pick out; I. i. 55. DAMN, condemn; IV. i. 6. DIRECTLY, Straight; I. ii. 3; IV. i. 32. |