The New Hudson Shakespeare · William Shakespeare
SCENE IV. _Another part of the same street, before the house of_ BRUTUS
_Enter_ PORTIA _and_ LUCIUS PORTIA. I prithee, boy, run to the senate-house; Stay not to answer me, but get thee gone. Why dost thou stay? [Note: SCENE III Rowe | Scene VII Pope.--_A street_ ... Ff omit.] [Note: _reading a paper_ Rowe | Ff omit.] [Note: SCENE IV Capell.--_Another part_ ... Capell | Ff omit.] [Note: _Enter_ ARTEMIDORUS ... In Plutarch, _Julius Cæsar_, Artemidorus is thus introduced: "And one Artemidorus also, born in the isle of Gnidos, a doctor of rhetoric in the Greek tongue, who by means of his profession was very familiar with certain of Brutus' confederates, and therefore knew the most part of all their practices against Cæsar, came and brought him a little bill, written with his own hand, of all that he meant to tell him. He, marking how Cæsar received all the supplications that were offered him, and that he gave them straight to his men that were about him, pressed nearer to him, and said: 'Cæsar, read this memorial to yourself, and that quickly, for they be matters of great weight, and touch you nearly.'"] [Note 6-7: /security gives way to:/ false confidence opens a way for.] [Note 8: /lover:/ friend. See note, p. 100, l. 13.] [Note 12: /emulation:/ envious rivalry. So in _Troilus and Cressida_, I, iii, 134: "an envious fever Of pale and bloodless emulation."]
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