Collier MS., adopted by Craik, 'loins of men'; Bulloch, 'limbs of Rome,' etc.

III. ii. 254. On this side Tiber'; Theobald proposed 'that' for 'this'; Cæsar's gardens were on the left bank of the river, Shakespeare followed North's Plutarch, and North merely translated the words in Amyot.

IV. i. 37. abjects, orts'; Staunton's reading; Theobald, ' abject orts'; Ff., ' Obiects, Arts'; Becket conj. ‘abject arts'; Gould conj. ' objects, orts,'

IV. i. 44. 'our means stretch'd'; F. 1, 'our meanes stretcht'; Ff. 2, 3, 4, and our best meanes stretcht out'; Johnson, 'our best means stretcht'; Malone, 'our means stretch'd to the utmost'.

IV. ii. 50, 52. Craik's suggestion that ' Lucilius' and 'Lucius' have been transposed in these lines has been accepted by many Editors. The Cambridge editors are of opinion that the error is due to the author and not to a transcriber, and have, therefore, not tampered with the text.

IV. iii. 129. Cp. "This Phaonius

came into the chamber,

and with a certain scoffing and mocking gesture, which he counterfeited of purpose, he rehearsed the verses which old Nestor said in Homer"

:

"My lords I pray you hearken both to me,

For I have seen more years than suchie three."

(North's Plutarch).

IV. iii. 133. vilely'; so F. 4; Ff. 1, 2, 'wildely'; F. 3,' vildly'. V. i. 20. 'I will do so,' i.e. ' I will do as you wish, and keep on the left'; according to some Editors, the words may mean I will not wrangle, but will have my way'.

V. i. 53. three and thirty'; Theobald, 'three and twenty', (the number given in Plutarch).

V. iii. 99. The last'; Rowe unnecessarily suggested, Thou last'; but ep. North's Plutarch, "he (Brutus) lamented the death of Cassius, calling him the last of all the Romans".

V. v. 33. 'Farewell to thee too, Strato. Countrymen'; Theobald's emendation of Ff., Farewell to thee, to Strato, Countrymen'.

V. v. 71. 'in a general honest thought And'; Collier MS., adopted by Craik, reads ' in a generous honest thought Of3.

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