And, in his mantle muffling up his face,
Even at the base of Pompey's statue,
Which all the while ran blood, great Caesar fell.
O, what a fall was there, my countrymen!]
[Warburton suggested transposing the second and third of these lines]
The image seems to be, that the blood of Caesar flew upon the statue,
and trickled down it. And the exclamation,
_O what a fall was there--_
follows better after
_-great Caesar fell,_
than with a line interposed, (see 1765, VII, 64, 3)
III.ii.226 (70,4) For I have neither writ] The old copy reads instead of
_wit_,
_For I have neither_ writ, _nor words,--_
which may mean, I have no _penned_ and premeditated oration.