me of honour.

[Note 310: _Re-enter ... with_ Dyce | Enter ... and Ff after
[Exit Portia].]

[Note 313 (and elsewhere): LIGARIUS | Cai. Ff.]

[Note 315: /To wear a kerchief./ It was a common practice in
England for those who were sick to wear a kerchief on their
heads. So in Fuller's _Worthies, Cheshire_, 1662, quoted by
Malone: "If any there be sick, they make him a posset and tye
a kerchief on his head: and if that will not mend him, then
God be merciful to him."]

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BRUTUS. Such an exploit have I in hand, Ligarius,
Had you a healthful ear to hear of it.

LIGARIUS. By all the gods that Romans bow before, 320
I here discard my sickness! Soul of Rome!
Brave son, deriv'd from honourable loins!
Thou, like an exorcist, hast conjur'd up
My mortified spirit. Now bid me run,
And I will strive with things impossible; 325
Yea, get the better of them. What's to do?

BRUTUS. A piece of work that will make sick men whole.

LIGARIUS. But are not some whole that we must make sick?

BRUTUS. That must we also. What it is, my Caius,
I shall unfold to thee, as we are going 330
To whom it must be done.

LIGARIUS. Set on your foot,
And with a heart new-fir'd I follow you,
To do I know not what; but it sufficeth
That Brutus leads me on.

BRUTUS. Follow me, then. [_Exeunt_]

[Note 327: Two lines in Ff.]

[Note 334: _Thunder_ Ff.]

[Note 321: /I here discard my sickness./ Ligarius here pulls
off the kerchief. Cf. Northumberland's speech, _2 Henry IV_,
I, i, 147, "hence, thou sickly quoif! Thou art a guard too
wanton for the head."]

[Note 323: In Shakespeare's time, 'exorcist' and 'conjurer'
were used indifferently. The former has since come to mean
only 'one who drives away spirits'; the latter, 'one who calls
them up.']

[Note 324: /My mortified spirit:/ my spirit that was dead in
me. So 'mortifying groans' in _The Merchant of Venice_, I, i,
82, and 'mortified man' in _Macbeth_, V, ii, 5. Words directly
derived from Latin are often used, by Shakespeare and
sixteenth century writers, in a signification peculiarly close
to the root notion of the word.]

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SCENE II. CAESAR'S _house_

_Thunder and lightning._ _Enter_ CAESAR, _in his night-gown_

CAESAR. Nor heaven nor earth have been at peace to-night:
Thrice hath Calpurnia in her sleep cried o