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SCENE II. CÆSAR'S _house_
_Thunder and lightning._ _Enter_ CÆSAR, _in his night-gown_ CÆSAR. Nor heaven nor earth have been at peace to-night: Thrice hath Calpurnia in her sleep cried out, 'Help, ho! they murder Cæsar!' Who's within? [Note: SCENE II Rowe | Scene IV Pope.] [Note: --CÆSAR'S _house_ | Ff omit.] [Note: _Enter_ CÆSAR ... | Enter Julius Cæsar ... Ff.--_in his night-gown_ Pope omits.] [Note 1: Two lines in Ff.] [Note: This scene, taken with the preceding, affords an interesting study in contrasts: Cæsar and Brutus; Calpurnia the yielding wife, and Portia the heroic.] [Note: _Enter_ CÆSAR _in his night-gown_.' Night-gown' here, as in _Macbeth_, II, ii, 70, V, 1, 5, means 'dressing-robe' or 'dressing-gown.' This is the usual meaning of the word in English from the fifteenth century to the eighteenth. So Addison and Steele use it in _The Spectator_.]
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