us Dyce | Enter Poet Theobald |
Ff omit.]

[Note 133: /vilely/ F4 | vildely F1 F2 | vildly F3.--doth Ff |
does Capell.]

[Note 129-133: "One Marcus Phaonius, that ... took upon him to
counterfeit a philosopher, not with wisdom and discretion, but
with a certain bedlam and frantic motion; he would needs come
into the chamber, though the men offered to keep him out. But
it was no boot to let Phaonius, when a mad mood or toy took
him in the head: for he was an hot hasty man, and sudden in
all his doings, and cared for never a senator of them all.
Now, though he used this bold manner of speech after the
profession of the Cynic philosophers, (as who would say,
_Dogs_,) yet his boldness did no hurt many times, because they
did but laugh at him to see him so mad. This Phaonius at that
time, in spite of the door-keepers, came into the chamber, and
with a certain scoffing and mocking gesture, which he
counterfeited of purpose, he rehearsed the verses which old
Nestor said in Homer:

My lords, I pray you hearken both to me,
For I have seen mo years than suchie three.

Cassius fell a-laughing at him; but Brutus thrust him out of
the chamber, and called him dog, and counterfeit Cynic.
Howbeit his coming in brake their strife at that time, and so
they left each other."--Plutarch, _Marcus Brutus_.]

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BRUTUS. Get you hence, sirrah; saucy fellow, hence!

CASSIUS. Bear with him, Brutus; 'tis his fashion. 135

BRUTUS. I'll know his humour, when he knows his time:
What should the wars do with these jigging fools?
Companion, hence!

CASSIUS. Away, away, be gone! [_Exit_ Poet]

BRUTUS. Lucilius and Titinius, bid the commanders
Prepare to lodge their companies to-night. 140

CASSIUS. And come yourselves, and bring Messala with you
Immediately to us. [_Exeunt_ LUCILIUS _and_ TITINIUS]

BRUTUS. Lucius, a bowl of wine! [_Exit_ LUCIUS]

CASSIUS. I did not think you could have been so angry.

BRUTUS. O Cassius, I am sick of many griefs.

CASSIUS. Of your philosophy you make no use, 145
If you give place to accidental evils.

[Note 139: Scene IV Pope.--Enter Lucil. and Titin. Rowe.]

[Note 142: [_Exeunt_ ...] Rowe | Ff omit.--[_Exit_ Lucius]
Capell | Ff omit.]

[Note 137: /jigging:/ moving rhythmically, rhyming. So in the
Prologue to Marlowe's _Tamburlaine the Great_: