hough Brutus
stood in the middest amongst them, as though he would have
said something touching this fact--presently ran out of the
house, and, flying, filled all the city with marvellous fear
and tumult. Insomuch as some did shut to the
doors."--Plutarch, _Julius Caesar_.]

[Note 193: /conceit:/ conceive of, think of. So in I, iii,
162.]

[Note 197: /dearer:/ more intensely. This emphatic or
intensive use of 'dear' is very common in Shakespeare, and is
used in the expression of strong emotion, either of pleasure
or of pain.]

[Note 205: /bay'd:/ brought to bay. The expression connotes
being barked at and worried as a deer by hounds. Cf. _A
Midsummer Nights Dream_, IV, i, 118. "Caesar turned him no
where but he was stricken at by some ... and was hackled and
mangled among them, as a wild beast taken of
hunters."--Plutarch, _Julius Caesar_.]

[Note 207: /Sign'd in thy spoil./ This may have reference to
the custom still prevalent in England and Europe of hunters
smearing their hands and faces with the blood of the slain
deer.--/lethe./ This puzzling term is certainly the reading of
the Folios, and may mean either 'violent death' (Lat.
_letum_), as 'lethal' means 'deadly,' or, as White interprets
the passage, 'the stream which bears to oblivion.']

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CASSIUS. Mark Antony,--

ANTONY. Pardon me, Caius Cassius:
The enemies of Caesar shall say this;
Then, in a friend, it is cold modesty.

CASSIUS. I blame you not for praising Caesar so; 215
But what compact mean you to have with us?

[Note 214: /modesty:/ moderation. So in _Henry VIII_, V, iii,
64. This is the original meaning of the word. See illustrative
quotation from Sir T. Elyot's _The Governour_, 1531, in
Century.]

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Will you be prick'd in number of our friends,
Or shall we on, and not depend on you?

ANTONY. Therefore I took your hands, but was indeed
Sway'd from the point by looking down on Caesar. 220
Friends am I with you all, and love you all,
Upon this hope that you shall give me reasons
Why and wherein Caesar was dangerous.

BRUTUS. Or else were this a savage spectacle:
Our reasons are so full of good regard 225
That, were you, Antony, the son of Caesar,
You should be satisfied.

ANTONY. That's all I seek:
And am moreover suitor that I may
Produce his body to the market-place;
And in the pulpit,