uck but his
name out of his heart, and turn him going. 34

3 CITIZEN. Tear him, tear him! Come, brands, ho! firebrands!
to Brutus', to Cassius'; burn all: some to Decius' house,
and some to Casca's; some to Ligarius': away, go! [_Exeunt_]

[Note 12: /you were best/: it were best for you. See Abbott,
Sect. 230.]

[Note 18: /you'll bear me/: I'll give you. For 'me' see note,
p. 26, l. 263.]

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ACT IV

SCENE I. _Rome._ _A room in_ ANTONY'S _house_

ANTONY, OCTAVIUS, _and_ LEPIDUS, _seated at a table_

ANTONY. These many then shall die; their names are prick'd.

OCTAVIUS. Your brother too must die; consent you, Lepidus?

[Note: _Rome._ _A room ... house_ Ff omit.--ANTONY, OCTAVIUS
... _table_ Malone | Enter Antony, Octawius, and Lepidus. Ff.]

[Note: SCENE I. The Folios give no indication of place, but that
Shakespeare intended the scene to be in Rome is clear from ll.
10, 11, where Lepidus is sent to Caesar's house and told that
he will find his confederates "or here, or at the Capitol." In
fact, however, the triumvirs, Octavius, Antonius, and Lepidus,
met in November, B.C. 43, some nineteen months after the
assassination of Caesar, on a small island in the river Rhenus
(now the Reno), near Bononia (Bologna). "All three met
together in an island environed round about with a little
river, and there remained three days together. Now, as
touching all other matters they were easily agreed, and did
divide all the empire of Rome between them, as if it had been
their own inheritance. But yet they could hardly agree whom
they would put to death: for every one of them would kill
their enemies, and save their kinsmen and friends. Yet, at
length, giving place to their greedy desire to be revenged of
their enemies, they spurned all reverence of blood and
holiness of friendship at their feet. For Caesar left Cicero
to Antonius's will; Antonius also forsook Lucius Caesar, who
was his uncle by his mother; and both of them together
suffered Lepidus to kill his own brother Paulus. Yet some
writers affirm that Caesar and Antonius requested Paulus might
be slain, and that Lepidus was contented with it."--Plutarch,
_Marcus Antonius_.]

[Note 1: /prick'd./ So in III, i. 217. See note, p. 95, l.
217.]

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LEPIDUS. I do consent--

OCTAVIUS. Prick him down, Antony.

LEPIDUS. Upon condition Publius shall not live,
Who is your sister