utarch, _Marcus Brutus_.]

[Note 254: /fire./ Cf. III, i, 172. Monosyllables ending in
'r' or 're,' preceded by a long vowel or diphthong, are often
pronounced as dissyllabic.]

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2 CITIZEN. Go fetch fire.

3 CITIZEN. Pluck down benches.

4 CITIZEN. Pluck down forms, windows, any thing.

[_Exeunt_ CITIZENS _with the body_]

ANTONY. Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot,
Take thou what course thou wilt!

_Enter a_ Servant

How now, fellow! 260

SERVANT. Sir, Octavius is already come to Rome.

ANTONY. Where is he?

SERVANT. He and Lepidus are at Caesar's house.

ANTONY. And thither will I straight to visit him:
He comes upon a wish. Fortune is merry, 265
And in this mood will give us any thing.

SERVANT. I heard him say, Brutus and Cassius
Are rid like madmen through the gates of Rome.

ANTONY. Belike they had some notice of the people 269
How I had mov'd them. Bring me to Octavius. [_Exeunt_]

[Note 258: [_Exeunt_ Citizens...] | Exit Plebeians Ff.]

[Note 258: /forms:/ benches. The word used in preceding
quotation from Plutarch. The Old Fr. _forme_, mediaeval Lat.
_forma_, was sometimes applied to choir-stalls, with back, and
book-rest. "For the origin of this use of the word, cf. Old
French _s'asseoir en forme_, to sit in a row or in fixed
order."--Murray. Nowhere in literature is there a more
realistic study and interpretation of the temper of a mob (a
word that has come into use since Shakespeare's time) than in
this scene and the short one which follows. Here is the true
mob-spirit, fickle, inflammable, to be worked on by any
demagogue with promises in his mouth.]

[Note 265: /upon a wish:/ as soon as wished for. Cf. I, ii,
104.]

[Note 268: /rid:/ ridden. So 'writ' for 'written,' IV, iii,
183.]

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SCENE III. _A street_

_Enter_ CINNA _the poet_

CINNA. I dreamt to-night that I did feast with Caesar,
And things unluckily charge my fantasy:
I have no will to wander forth of doors,
Yet something leads me forth.

_Enter_ CITIZENS

1 CITIZEN. What is your name?

2 CITIZEN. Whither are you going?

3 CITIZEN. Where do you dwell?

4 CITIZEN. Are you a married man or a bachelor?

2 CITIZEN. Answer every man directly.

[Note: SCENE III | Scene VII Pope.]

[Note: _Enter_ ... | Ff add _and after him