[Note 72: /moe/ Ff | more Rowe.]

[Note 74: /cloaks/ | Cloakes F1 | cloathes F2 | cloaths F3
F4.]

[Note 76: /'em/ F1 F2 F3 | them F4.]

[Note 83: /path, thy/ F2 | path thy F1 F3 F4 | hath thy Quarto
(1691) | march, thy Pope | put thy Dyce (Coleridge conj.).]

[Note 70: /brother./ Cassius was married to Junia, the sister
of Brutus.]

[Note 72: /moe/: more. The old comparative of 'many.' In
Middle English 'moe,' or 'mo,' was used of number and with
collective nouns; 'more' had reference specifically to size.
See Skeat.]

[Note 73: Pope was evidently so disgusted with Shakespeare's
tendency to dress his Romans like Elizabethans, that in his
two editions he omits 'hats' altogether, indicating the
omission by a dash!]

[Note 76: /favour/: countenance. So in I, ii, 91; I, iii,
129.]

[Note 79: /evils/: evil things. So in _Lucrece_, l. 1250, we
have 'cave-keeping evils.' The line in the text means, When
crimes and mischiefs, and evil and mischievous men, are most
free from the restraints of law or of shame. So Hamlet speaks
of night as the time "when hell itself breathes out Contagion
to this world." Cf. l. 265.]

[Note 83: /path:/ take thy way. Drayton employs 'path' as a
verb, both transitively and intransitively, literally and
figuratively, in _England's Heroicall Epistles_ (1597-1598).
The verb seems to have been in use from the fourteenth century
to the close of the seventeenth.]

[Note 84: /Erebus:/ the region of nether darkness between
Earth and Hades. Cf. _The Merchant of Venice_, V, i, 87: "dark
as Erebus."]

[Note 85: /prevention:/ discovery, anticipation. This, the
original sense, would lead to 'prevention,' as the term is
used to-day.]

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_Enter the conspirators_, CASSIUS, CASCA, DECIUS, CINNA,
METELLUS CIMBER, _and_ TREBONIUS.

CASSIUS. I think we are too bold upon your rest:
Good morrow, Brutus; do we trouble you?

BRUTUS. I have been up this hour, awake all night.
Know I these men that come along with you?

CASSIUS. Yes, every man of them; and no man here 90
But honours you; and every one doth wish
You had but that opinion of yourself
Which every noble Roman bears of you.
This is Trebonius.

BRUTUS. He is welcome hither.

CASSIUS. This, Decius Brutus.

BRUTUS. He is welcome too. 95

CASSIUS. This, Casca; this, Cinna; and this, Metellus Cimber.

[Note 86: Scene II Pope.]