uffling up his face,
Even at the base of Pompey's statue,
Which all the while ran blood, great Caesar fell.
O, what a fall was there, my countrymen!
Then I, and you, and all of us fell down, 190
Whilst bloody treason flourish'd over us.
O, now you weep; and I perceive you feel
The dint of pity: these are gracious drops.
Kind souls, what, weep you when you but behold
Our Caesar's vesture wounded? Look you here, 195
Here is himself, marr'd, as you see, with traitors.

[Note 187: /statue/ Ff | statua Steevens Globe | statue Camb.]

[Note 174: /envious:/ malicious. See note on 'envy,' p. 54, l.
164.]

[Note 178: /resolv'd:/ informed, assured. See note, p. 90, l.
132.]

[Note 172: This is the artfullest and most telling stroke in
Antony's speech. The Romans prided themselves most of all upon
their military virtue and renown: Caesar was their greatest
military hero; and his victory over the Nervii was his most
noted military exploit. It occurred during his second campaign
in Gaul, in the summer of the year B.C. 57, and is narrated
with surpassing vividness in the second book of his _Gallic
War_. Plutarch, in his _Julius Caesar_, gives graphic details
of this famous victory and the effect upon the Roman people of
the news of Caesar's personal prowess, when "flying in amongst
the barbarous people," he "made a lane through them that
fought before him." Of course the matter about the 'mantle' is
purely fictitious: Caesar had on the civic gown, not the
military cloak, when killed; and it was, in fact, the mangled
toga that Antony displayed on this occasion; but the fiction
has the effect of making the allusion to the victory seem
perfectly artless and incidental.]

[Note 180: 'Angel' here seems to mean his counterpart, his
good genius, or a kind of better and dearer self. See note, p.
47, l. 66.]

[Note 193: 'Dint' (Anglo-Saxon _dynt_; cf. provincial 'dunt')
originally means 'blow'; the text has it in the secondary
meaning of 'impression' made by a blow. Shakespeare uses the
word in both senses.]

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1 CITIZEN. O piteous spectacle!

2 CITIZEN. O noble Caesar!

3 CITIZEN. O woful day!

4 CITIZEN. O traitors, villains! 200

1 CITIZEN. O most bloody sight!

2 CITIZEN. We will be reveng'd.

ALL. Revenge! About! Seek! Burn! Fire! Kill! Slay!
Let not a traitor live!

ANTONY. Stay, countrymen.