I.i.20 (4,2) _Mar._ What meanest thou by that?] [Theobald gave this
speech to Flavius] I have replaced _Marullus_, who might properly enough
reply to a saucy sentence directed to his colleague, and to whom the
speech was probably given, that he might not stand too long unemployed
upon the stage.
I.ii.25 (7,5) [_Sennet. Exeunt Caesar and Train_] I have here inserted
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. _Sennet_ appears to be a particular tune or
mode of martial musick.
I.ii.35 (8,6) You bear too stubborn and too strange a hand] _Strange_,
is alien, unfamiliar, such as might become a stranger.
I.ii.39 (8,7) Vexed I am,/Of late, with passions of some difference]
With a fluctation of discordant opinions and desires.
I.ii.73 (9,9) To stale with ordinary oaths my love/To every new
protester] To invite _every new protestor_ to my affection by the
_stale_ or allurement of _customary_ oaths.
I.ii.87 (10,1) And I will look on both indifferently] Dr. Warburton has
a long note on this occasion, which is very trifling. When _Brutus_
first names _honour_ and _death_, he calmly declares them indifferent;
but as the image kindles in his mind, he sets _honour_ above _life_. Is
not this natural?
I.ii.160 (12,6) eternal devil] I should think that our author wrote
rather, _infernal devil_.
I.ii.171 (13,7) chew upon this] Consider this at leisure; _ruminate_ on
this.
I.ii.186 (13,8) Looks with such ferret, and such fiery eyes] A ferret
has red eyes.
I.ii.268 (16,2) a man of any occupation] Had I been a mechanick, one of
the Plebeians to whom he offered his threat.
I.ii.313 (17,3) Thy honourable metal may be wrought/From what it is
dispos'd] The best _metal_ or _temper_ may be worked into qualities
contrary to its original constitution.
I.ii.318 (17,4) If I were Brutus now, and he were Cassius,/He should not
humour me] The meaning, I think, is this, _Caesar loves Brutus, but if
Brutus and I were to change places, his love should not humour me_,
should not take hold of my affection, so as to make me forget my
principles.
I.iii.1 (18,5) brought you Caesar home?] Did you attend Caesar home?
I.iii.3 (18,6) sway of earth] The whole weight or _momentum_ of this
globe.
I.iii.21 (19,7) Who glar'd upon me] The first edition reads,
_Who_ glaz'd _upon me_,--
Perhaps, _Who_ gaz'd _upon me_.
I.iii.64 (20,8) Why birds, and beasts, from quality and kind] That is,
Why they _deviate_ from quality and nature. This line might perhaps be
more properly placed after the next line.
_Why birds, and beasts, from quality and kind;
Why all these things change from their ordinance._
I.iii.65 (20,9) and children calculate] [Shakespeare, with his usual
liberty, employs the _species_ [calculate] for the _genus_ foretel].
WARB.] Shakespeare found the liberty established. _To calculate a
nativity_, is the technical term.
I.iii.l14 (22,2) My answer must be made] I shall be called to account,
and must _answer_ as for seditious words.
I.iii.117 (22,3) Hold my hand] Is the same as, _Here's my hand_.
I.iii.118 (22,4) Be factious for redress] _Factious_ seems here to mean
_active_.
I.iii.129 (23,5) It favours, like the work] The old edition reads,