note on l. 66, as appears from ll. 281-282 in the
next scene, where it is said that the Tribunes "for pulling
scarfs off Caesar's images, are put to silence."]

[Note 72: /the vulgar:/ the common people. So in _Love's
Labour's Lost_, I, ii, 51; _Henry V_, IV, vii, 80.]

[Note 75: /pitch./ A technical term in falconry, denoting the
height to which a hawk or falcon flies. Cf. _I Henry VI_, II,
iv, 11: "Between two hawks, which flies the higher pitch."]

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SCENE II. _A public place_

_Enter_ CAESAR; ANTONY, _for the course_; CALPURNIA,
PORTIA, DECIUS, CICERO, BRUTUS, CASSIUS, _and_ CASCA; _a
great crowd following, among them a_ Soothsayer.

CAESAR. Calpurnia!

CASCA. Peace, ho! Caesar speaks.

CAESAR. Calpurnia!

CALPURNIA. Here, my lord.

CAESAR. Stand you directly in Antonius' way,
When he doth run his course. Antonius!

ANTONY. Caesar, my lord? 5

CAESAR. Forget not, in your speed, Antonius,
To touch Calpurnia; for our elders say,
The barren, touched in this holy chase,
Shake off their sterile curse.

ANTONY. I shall remember:
When Caesar says 'Do this,' it is perform'd. 10

[Note: SCENE ... _place_ | Ff omit.]

[Note 3: /Antonius'/ Pope | Antonio's Ff.]

[Note 4, 6: /Antonius/ Pope | Antonio Ff (and so elsewhere).]

[Note 3: /Antonius'./ The 'Antonio's' of the Folios is the
Italian form with which both actors and audience would be more
familiar. So in IV, iii, 102, the Folios read "dearer than
Pluto's (i.e. Plutus') mine." Antonius was at this time
Consul, as Caesar himself also was. Each Roman _gens_ had its
own priesthood, and also its peculiar religious rites. The
priests of the Julian gens (so named from Iulus the son of
Aeneas) had lately been advanced to the same rank with those
of the god Lupercus; and Antony was at this time at their
head. It was probably as chief of the Julian Luperci that he
officiated on this occasion, stripped, as the old stage
direction has it, "for the course."]

[Note 8-9: It was an old custom at these festivals for the
priests, naked except for a girdle about the loins, to run
through the streets of the city, waving in the hand a thong of
goat's hide, and striking with it such women as offered
themselves for the blow, in the belief that this would prevent
or avert "the sterile curse." Caesar was a