97. checked like a bondman: chidden as if he were a slave, 102. Plutus: the god of riches. 109. dishonor shall be humor: insult shall be attributed to ill temper. 112. much enforced: struck hard. 125. grudge: ill feeling. 137. jigging: rhyming; ballad-writing. 156. swallowed fire: "Took hot burning coals and cast them into her mouth, and kept her mouth so close that she choked herself."- PLUTARCH. 165. call in question: discuss. 170. Bending their expedition: directing their march. 194. in art theoretically. 196. alive that concerns the living. 220. Omitted: neglected; not employed. 228. niggard supply sparingly. : 241. o'er watched worn out with watching. 274. Where I left reading: "Brutus was a careful man, and slept very little, both for that his Diet was moderate, as also because he was continually occupied. He never slept in the day time, and in the night no longer than the time he was driven to be alone, and when every body else took their rest. But now whilst he was in War, and his head over-busily occupied to think of his affairs, and what would happen, after he had slumbered a little after supper, he spent all the rest of the night in dispatching of his weightiest Causes; and after he had taken order for them, if he had any leasure left him, he would read some Book till the third Watch of the night, at what time the Captains, petty Captains and Colonels, did use to come to him. So, being ready to go into EUROPE, one night very late (when all the Camp took quiet rest) as he was in his Tent with a little light, thinking of weighty matters, he thought he heard one come in to him, and casting his eye towards the door of his Tent, that he saw a wonderfull strange and monstrous shape of a body coming towards him, and said never a word. So Brutus boldly asked what he was, a God or a man, and what cause brought him thither. The Spirit answered him, I am thy evill Spirit, Brutus: and thou shalt see me by the City of PHILIPPES. Brutus being no otherwise afraid, replied again unto it: Well, then I shall see thee again. The Spirit presently vanished away: and Brutus called his men unto him, who told him that they heard no noise, nor saw any thing at all." 307. commend me: greet from me. ACT V SCENE I 4. battles troops; battalions. 5. warn challenge; summon to battle. 14. bloody sign of battle: "the signal of battle was an arming scarlet coat." 19. exigent: exigency; time of urgent need. 24. answer on their charge: meet them when they attack. 34. Hybla bees: Hybla in Sicily was noted for excellent honey. 53. three and thirty wounds: the number given by Plutarch is twenty-three, but poetry must not be held to mathematical accuracy. 54. another Cæsar: Octavius had assumed the name, Caius Julius Cæsar Octavianus. 59. strain: race. 60. more honorable: in a more honorable manner. 66. stomachs: appetites; inclination or courage. 77. Epicurus: a Greek philosopher who maintained that the gods did not concern themselves with the affairs of this world. 80. former: foremost. 83. consorted: accompanied. 92. very constantly: with firmness, or resolution. 97. reason with the worst that may befall: consider what evils may come to us. There Cassius began to speak first, and said: "The gods grant us O Brutus, that this day we may win the Field, and ever after to live all the rest of our life quietly one with another. But sith the gods have so ordained it, that the greatest and chiefest things amongst men are most uncertain, and that if the Battell fall out otherwise to day than we wish or look for, we shall hardly meet again, what art thou then determined to do, to flie, or die? Brutus answered him, being yet but a young man, and not over greatly experienced in the world, I trust (I know not how) a certain rule of Philosophy, by the which I did greatly blame and reprove Cato for killing himself, as being no lawfull nor godly act, touching the gods: nor concerning men, valiant ; not to give place and yeeld to divine Providence, and not constantly and patiently to take whatsoever it pleaseth him to send us, but to draw back and flie: but being now in the midst of the danger, I am of a contrary mind. For, if it be not the will of God that this Battell fall out fortunate for us, I will look no more for hope, but will rid me of this miserable world, and content me with my fortune."- PLUTARCH, Life of Brutus. 105. fall: happen. prevent: anticipate. 106. The time of life: the natural close of life. 109. contented: willing. 1. bills: written orders. 3. set on attack. SCENE II 4. cold demeanor: no evident desire to fight. SCENE III This scene follows Plutarch's account very closely. : "First of all he (Cassius) was marvellous angry to see how Brutus' men ran to give charge upon their enemies, and tarried not for the word of the Battell, nor commandment to give charge and it grieved him beside, that after he had overcome them, his men fell straight to spoil, and were not carefull to compass in the rest of the Enemies behind: but with tarrying too long also, more than through the valiantness or foresight of the Captains his Enemies, Cassius found himself compassed in with the right wing of his Enemies Army. Whereupon his horsemen brake immediately, and fled for life towards the Sea. Furthermore, perceiving his Footmen to give ground, he did what he could to keep them from flying, and took an Ensign from one of the Ensign-Bearers that fled, and stuck it fast at his feet: although with much ado he could scant keep his own Guard together. So Cassius himself was at length compelled to flie, with a few about him, unto a little Hill, from whence they might easily see what was done in all the plain: howbeit Cassius himself saw nothing, for his sight was very bad, saving that he saw (and yet with much ado) how the Enemies spoiled his Camp before his eyes. He saw also a great Troop of Horsemen, whom Brutus sent to aid him, and thought that they were his Enemies that followed him: but yet he sent Titinnius, one of them that was with him, to go and know what they were. Brutus horsemen saw him coming afar off, whom when they knew that he was one of Cassius chiefest friends, they shouted out for joy, and they that were familiarly acquainted with him, lighted from their Horses, and went and embraced him. The rest compassed him in round about on horse-back, with Songs of Victory, and great rushing of their Harness, so that they made all the Field ring again for joy. But this marred all. For Cassius thinking indeed that Titinnius was taken of the Enemies, he then spake these words: Desiring too much to live, I have lived to see one of my best friends taken, for my sake, before my face. After that, he got into a Tent where nobody was, and took Pindarus with him, one of his Bondmen whom he reserved ever for such a pitch, since the cursed battle of the PARTHIANS Where Crassus was slain, though he notwithstanding scaped from that overthrow but then casting his cloak over his head, and holding out his bare neck unto Pindarus, he gave him his head to be stricken off. So the head was found |