99: "They have here propertied me."]

[Note 41: /Listen./ The transitive use is older than the
intransitive.]

[Note 42: /make head:/ raise an armed force. 'Head' has often
the meaning of 'armed force' in Shakespeare. So in sixteenth
century literature and old ballads. It usually connotes
insurrection.]

[Note 44: The reading adopted is that of the later Folios. It
makes a normal blank verse line. Cf. II, i, 158-159.]

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OCTAVIUS. Let us do so: for we are at the stake,
And bay'd about with many enemies;
And some that smile have in their hearts, I fear, 50
Millions of mischiefs. [_Exeunt_]

[Note 48-49: The metaphor is from bear-baiting. Cf. _Macbeth_,
V, vii, 1.]

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SCENE II. _Before_ BRUTUS'S _tent, in the camp near Sardis_

_Drum._ _Enter_ BRUTUS, TITINIUS, LUCIUS, _and_ Soldiers;
LUCILIUS _and_ PINDARUS _meet them_

BRUTUS. Stand, ho!

LUCILIUS. Give the word, ho! and stand.

BRUTUS. What now, Lucilius! is Cassius near?

LUCILIUS. He is at hand; and Pindarus is come
To do you salutation from his master. 5

[PINDARUS _gives a letter to_ BRUTUS]

BRUTUS. He greets me well. Your master, Pindarus,
In his own change, or by ill officers,
Hath given me some worthy cause to wish
Things done undone: but, if he be at hand,
I shall be satisfied.

PINDARUS. I do not doubt 10
But that my noble master will appear
Such as he is, full of regard and honour.

[Note: SCENE II. _Before ... Sardis_ Rowe | Ff omit.]

[Note: _Enter_ BRUTUS ... _meet them_ | Enter Brutus, Lucillius, and
the Army. Titinius and Pindarus meet them Ff.]

[Note 5: [PINDARUS _gives_ ...] | Ff omit.]

[Note 7: /change/ Ff | charge Hanmer.]

[Note: SCENE II. This scene is separated from the foregoing by
about a year. The remaining events take place in the autumn,
B.C. 42.]

[Note 6: /He greets me well./ A dignified return of the
salutation.]

[Note 7: If the Folio reading be retained, 'change' will mean
'altered disposition,' 'change in his own feelings towards
me.' Warburton's suggestion 'charge,' adopted by Hanmer and in
previous editions of Hudson's Shakespeare, would give as the
meaning of the line, Either by his own command, or by
officers, subordinates, who have abused their trust,
prostituting it to the ends of private gain.]

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