te 6: unless.]

This literary and popular tradition is followed in _Hamlet_, III, ii,
107-111:

HAMLET. What did you enact?

POLONIUS. I did enact Julius Caesar: I was kill'd i' the Capitol:
Brutus kill'd me.

HAMLET. It was a brute part of him to kill so capital a calf there.

So also in _Antony and Cleopatra:_

Since Julius Caesar,
Who at Philippi the good Brutus ghosted,
There saw you labouring for him. What was 't
That mov'd pale Cassius to conspire; and what
Made the all-honour'd, honest Roman, Brutus,
With the arm'd rest, courtiers of beauteous freedom,
To drench the Capitol; but that they would
Have one man but a man? [II, vi, 12-19.]

We have the same popular tradition in the first scene of the last act of
Fletcher's _The Noble Gentleman_. So, too, in the Prologue to Beaumont
and Fletcher's, or Fletcher and Massinger's, _The False One_, a tragedy
dealing with Caesar and Cleopatra:

To tell
Of Caesar's amorous heats, and how he fell
I' the Capitol.

Here the reference is to Shakespeare's play.

"ET TU, BRUTE"

Dyce and other researchers have made clear that in Shakespeare's day
"_Et tu, Brute_" was a familiar phrase which had special reference to a
wound from a supposed friend. It probably owed its popularity to having
been used in the earlier plays on the subject of Julius Caesar. In _The
True Tragedie of Richard Duke of York_ (1595), upon which Shakespeare's
_3 Henry VI_ is based, occurs the line,

_Et tu, Brute?_ wilt thou stab Caesar too?

This line is repeated in S. Nicholson's poem, _Acolastus, his
Afterwitte_ (1600). In Ben Jonson's _Every Man out of His Humour_
(1599), Buffone uses "_Et tu, Brute_" in speaking to Macilente (V, iv).
In the _Myrroure for Magistrates_ (1587) we find,

And Brutus thou, my sonne, quoth I, whom erst I loved best.

The Latin form of the phrase possibly originated, as Malone suggested,
in the Latin play referred to above (Earlier Plays) which was acted at
Oxford in 1582. It is easy to see how the Elizabethan tendency to
word-quibble and equivoque would help to give currency to the Latin
form. Cf. Hamlet's joke on 'brute' quoted above.

BRUTUS'S SPEECH, III, ii

In view of the close connection between _Julius Caesar_ and _Hamlet_ as
regards date of composition and the characterization of Brutus and
Hamlet, interest attaches to Professor Gollancz's theory (_Julius
Caesar_,