gods to intermit the plague
That needs must light on this ingratitude.

[Note 39: /Many a time and oft/. This form of emphasis occurs
also in _The Merchant of Venice_, I, iii, 107. Cf. _Timon of
Athens_, III, i, 25.]

[Note 41: /windows/, Rowe | Windowes? Ff.]

[Note 44: /Rome/: Ff | Rome? Rowe.]

[Note 47, 49: /her/ | his Rowe.]

[Note 47: /That/: so that. For the omission of 'so' before
'that,' see Abbott, Sect. 283.--/her/. In Latin usage rivers
are masculine, and 'Father' is a common appellation of
'Tiber.' In Elizabethan literature Drayton generally makes
rivers feminine, while Spenser tends to make them masculine.]

[Note 48: /To hear/: at hearing. A gerundive use of the
infinitive.--/replication/: echo, repetition (Lat.
_replicare_, to roll back).]

[Note 51: Is this a day to pick out for a holiday?]

[Note 53: The reference is to the great battle of Munda, in
Spain, which took place in March of the preceding year, B.C.
45. Caesar was now celebrating his fifth triumph, which was in
honor of his final victory over the Pompeian, or conservative,
faction. Cnaeus and Sextus, the two sons of Pompey the Great,
were leaders in that battle, and Cnaeus perished. "And because
he had plucked up his race by the roots, men did not think it
meet for him to triumph so for the calamities of his
country."--Plutarch, _Julius Caesar_.]

[Note 57: "It is evident from the opening scene, that
Shakespeare, even in dealing with classical subjects, laughed
at the classic fear of putting the ludicrous and sublime into
juxtaposition. After the low and farcical jests of the saucy
cobbler, the eloquence of Marullus 'springs upwards like a
pyramid of fire.'"--Campbell.]

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FLAVIUS. Go, go, good countrymen, and, for this fault,
Assemble all the poor men of your sort;
Draw them to Tiber banks, and weep your tears 60
Into the channel, till the lowest stream
Do kiss the most exalted shores of all.

[_Exeunt all the_ Commoners]

See, where their basest metal be not mov'd!
They vanish tongue-tied in their guiltiness.
Go you down that way towards the Capitol; 65
This way will I: disrobe the images,
If you do find them deck'd with ceremonies.

[Note 62: [_Exeunt_ ... ] Ff | Exeunt Citizens Capell.]

[Note 63: /where/ Ff | whe're Theobald | wher Dyce | whether
Camb.]

[Note 61-62: Till the river rises from the extreme low-water
mark to the extreme hig