The New Hudson Shakespeare · William Shakespeare
SCENE IV. _Another part of the field._
_Alarum. Enter_ BRUTUS, _young_ CATO, LUCILIUS, _and others_ BRUTUS. Yet, countrymen, O, yet hold up your heads! CATO. What bastard doth not? Who will go with me? I will proclaim my name about the field. I am the son of Marcus Cato, ho! A foe to tyrants, and my country's friend; 5 I am the son of Marcus Cato, ho! _Enter_ Soldiers, _and fight_ LUCILIUS. And I am Brutus, Marcus Brutus, I; Brutus, my country's friend; know me for Brutus! O young and noble Cato, art thou down? Why, now thou diest as bravely as Titinius; 10 And mayst be honour'd, being Cato's son. 1 SOLDIER. Yield, or thou diest. [Note: SCENE IV Capell | Scene VII Pope.--_Another part_ ... Capell | Ff omit.] [Note: _Enter_ BRUTUS ... | Enter Brutus, Messala, Cato, Lucillius and Flauius Ff] [Note 7: LUCILIUS | Bru. Rowe | Ff omit.] [Note 9-11: Ff give to LUC. (Lucilius).] [Note 2: /What bastard doth not:/ who is so base-born as not to do so?] [Note 7-8: The Folios omit the speaker's name. Rowe gave the lines to Brutus, but they are utterly uncharacteristic of him. Plutarch (see quotation below, l. 29) says that Lucilius impersonated Brutus, and Shakespeare follows this, as l. 14 indicates. The Folios have no 'Exit' or stage direction after l. 8. Professor Michael Macmillan says: "It seems probable that the printers of the Folio by mistake put the heading 'Luc.' two lines too low down."]
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