going? Where do I dwell? Am I a married man or a bachelor? Then, to answer every man directly and briefly, wisely and truly ;-wisely, I say, I am a bachelor. 2 CIT. That's as much as to say, they are fools that marry:-you'll bear me a bang for that, I fear. Proceed;-directly. CIN. Directly, I am going to Cæsar's funeral. 2 CIT. That matter is answered directly. a and turn him going.] So in "As You Like It," Act III. Sc. 1, poet. 4 CIT. Tear him for his bad verses, tear him for his bad verses! CIN. I am not Cinna the conspirator. 2 CIT. It is no matter, his name's Cinna; pluck but his name out of his heart, and turn him going.a 3 CIT. Tear him, tear him! Come, brands, ho! firebrands! To Brutus', to Cassius'; burn all! Some to Decius' house, and some to Casca's; some to Ligarius'! away! go! [Exeunt. "Do this expediently, and turn him going." Ост. Prick him down, Antony. LEP. Upon condition Publius shall not live, Who is your sister's son," Mark Antony. ANT. He shall not live: look, with a spot I b damn him. But, Lepidus, go you to Cæsar's house; [Exit LEPIDUS. ANT. This is a slight unmeritable man, Meet to be sent on errands: is it fit, a Who is your sister's son, Mark Antony.] This is, historically, an error. The individual meant, Lucius Cæsar, was the brother of Mark Antony's mother. Upton, therefore, concludes that Shakespeare wrote, The three-fold world divided, he should stand Ост. ANT. Octavius, I have seen more days than you: And though we lay these honours on this man, To ease ourselves of divers slanderous loads, He shall but bear them as the ass bears gold, To groan and sweat under the business, Either led or driven, as we point the way; And having brought our treasure where we will, Then take we down his load, and turn him off, Like to the empty ass, to shake his ears, And graze in commons. Nor with such free and friendly conference, As he hath us'd of old. BRU. There are no tricks in plain and simple faith: LUCIL. They mean this night in Sardis to be quarter'd, The greater part: the horse in general, BRU. [March without. Hark! he is arriv'd :— cbe content;] Be continent; be self-restrained. d griefs-] Grievances. So in Act I. Sc. 3, "Be factious for redress of all these griefs." e Lucilius, do you the like; &c.] Mr. Craik reads, with a manifest improvement of the old text, "Lucius, do you the like, and let no man Come to our tent, till we have done our conference. By this change, the prosody of the first line is restored, and we have no longer the anomaly of an officer of rank and a servingboy associated together to watch the door. ruption, And chastisement doth therefore hide his head. BRU. Remember March, the ides of March remember! Did not great Julius bleed for justice' sake? CAS. BRU. Go to; you are not, Cassius. BRU. Hear me, for I will speak! Must I give way and room to your rash choler? Shall I be frighted when a madman stares? CAS. O, ye gods! ye gods! must I endure all this? BRU. All this! ay, more: fret till your proud heart break; Go show your slaves how choleric you are, CAS. Is it come to this? BRU. You say you are a better soldier: Let it appear so; make your vaunting true, And it shall please me well: for mine own part, I shall be glad to learn of noble' men. CAS. You wrong me; every way you wrong me, Brutus ; I said an elder soldier, not a better: I BRU. If f you did, I care not. CAS. When Cæsar liv'd he durst not thus have mov'd me. BRU. Peace, peace! you durst not so have tempted him. CAS. I durst not? BRU. No. There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats; To you for gold to pay my legions, Collier's annotator, and looking to what Cassius had previously said,"I am a soldier, I, Older in practice, abler than yourself," &c. it is a very plausible emendation. Be ready, gods, with all your thunderbolts, Dash him to pieces! CAS. I denied you not. BRU. You did. A friend should bear his friend's infirmities, BRU. As huge as high Olympus. CAS. Come, Antony, and young Octavius, come, Revenge yourselves alone on Cassius, For Cassius is a-weary of the world! Hated by one he loves; brav'd by his brother; Check'd like a bondman; all his faults observ'd, -you are yoked with a lamb,-] "Lamb" can hardly have been the poet's word, and Pope, who saw its unfitness, printed man; but it requires a happier conjecture than this to justify an alteration of the text. b When grief and blood, ill-temper'd, &c.] By ill-tempered is meant badly qualified. "The four humours' in a man, accord Set in a note-book, learn'd, and conn'd by rote, CAS. Iath Cassius liv'd To be but mirth and laughter to his Brutus, When grief and blood, ill-temper'd, vexeth him? (*) Old text, Pluto's. ing to the old physicians, were blood, choler, phlegm, and melancholy. So long as these were duly mixed, all would be well." -TRENCH. |