--_the_ lives _of men_.
unless we read,
--these lymms _of men_;
That is, _these bloodhounds_ of men. The uncommonness of the word _lymm_
easily made the change.
III.i.273 (60,5) Cry _Havock_] A learned correspondent has informed me,
that, in the military operations of old times, _havock_ was the word by
which declaration was made, that no quarter should be given.
In a tract intitled, _The Office of the Conestable & Mareschall in the
Tyme of Werre_, contained in the Black Book of the Admiralty, there is
the following chapter:
"The peyne of hym that crieth _havock_ and of them that followeth hym.
etit. v."
"Item Si quis inventus fuerit qui clamorem inceperit qui vecatur
_Havok_."
"Also that no man be so hardy to crye _Havok_ upon peyne that he that is
begynner shal be deede therefore: & the remanent that doo the same or
folow shall lose their horse & harneis: and the persones of such as
foloweth & escrien shal be under arrest of the Conestable & Mareschall
warde unto tyme that they have made fyn; & founde suretie no morr to
offende; & his body in prison at the Kyng wylle.--"
III.ii.116 (66,8) Caesar has had great wrong] [Pope has a rather
ridiculous note on this] I have inserted this note, because it is
Pope's, for it is otherwise of no value. It is strange that he should so
much forget the date of the copy before him, as to think it not printed
in Jonson's time. (see 1765, VII, 81, 1)
III.ii.126 (68,9) And none so poor] The meanest man is now too high to
do reverence to Caesar.