ish'd to-day our enterprise might thrive.
I fear our purpose is discovered.

BRUTUS. Look, how he makes to Caesar: mark him.

CASSIUS. Casca, be sudden, for we fear prevention.
Brutus, what shall be done? If this be known, 20
Cassius or Caesar never shall turn back,
For I will slay myself.

[Note 13: CAESAR _goes_ ... | Ff omit.]

[Note 14: _Advances_ ... | Ff omit.]

[Note 9: See quotation from Plutarch, _Julius Caesar_, above,
p. 74.]

[Note 12: As already indicated (see note, p. 39, l. 126), the
murder of Caesar did not take place in the Capitol, but
Shakespeare, departing from Plutarch, followed a famous
literary tradition. So in Chaucer, _The Monkes Tale_, ll.
713-720. Cf. the speech of Polonius, _Hamlet_, III, ii,
108-109: "I did enact Julius Caesar; I was kill'd i' the
Capitol; Brutus kill'd me." See Introduction, Sources, p. xv.]

[Note 13: This is mainly Steevens's (1773) stage direction.
Capell's (1768) is interesting: "Artemidorus is push'd back.
Caesar, and the rest, enter the Senate: The Senate rises.
Popilius presses forward to speak to Caesar; and passing
Cassius, says, ..."]

[Note 18: /makes to:/ advances to, presses towards.--/mark./
No necessity to pronounce this as dissyllabic. The pause has
the effect of a syllable.]

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BRUTUS. Cassius, be constant:
Popilius Lena speaks not of our purposes;
For, look, he smiles, and Caesar doth not change.

CASSIUS. Trebonius knows his time; for, look you, Brutus, 25
He draws Mark Antony out of the way.

[_Exeunt_ ANTONY _and_ TREBONIUS]

[Note 26: [_Exeunt_ ANTONY ...] Ff omit.]

[Note 22: /constant:/ firm. So in ll. 60, 72, 73. Cf. II, i,
227, 299; iv, 6.]

[Note 23-26: So in Plutarch, _Marcus Brutus_: "Another senator
called Popilius Laena after he had saluted Brutus and Cassius
more friendly than he was wont to do, he rounded[A] softly in
their ears, and told them, 'I pray the gods you may go through
with that you have taken in hand; but, withal, dispatch, I
read[B] you, for your enterprise is bewrayed.' When he had
said, he presently departed from them, and left them both
afraid that their conspiracy would out.... When Caesar came
out of his litter, Popilius Laena went ... and kept him a long
time with a talk. Caesar gave good ear unto him; wherefore the
conspirators ... conjecturing ... that his talk was none other
but the ver