he way in which the Elizabethans overdid the use of
'element' in this sense, in _Twelfth Night_, III, i, 65, and
in _2 Henry IV_, IV, iii, 58.]

[Note 129: /favour:/ appearance. So in I, ii, 91. Johnson's
emendation, though pleonastic, makes least change upon the
text of the Folios.]

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_Enter_ CINNA.

CASCA. Stand close awhile, for here comes one in haste.

CASSIUS. 'Tis Cinna; I do know him by his gait;
He is a friend. Cinna, where haste you so?

CINNA. To find out you. Who's that? Metellus Cimber?

CASSIUS. No, it is Casca; one incorporate 135
To our attempts. Am I not stay'd for, Cinna?

[Note 132: /gait/ Johnson | gate Ff.]

[Note 131: /close:/ hidden. So in _1 Chronicles_, xii, 1: "He
yet kept himself close because of Saul the son of Kish."]

[Note 135: /incorporate:/ closely united. Shakespeare uses
this word nine times,--four times as an adjective and five
times as a verb. With regard to the omission of _-ed_ in
participial forms, see Abbott, Sect. 342.]

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CINNA. I'm glad on't. What a fearful night is this!
There's two or three of us have seen strange sights.

CASSIUS. Am I not stay'd for? tell me.

CINNA. Yes, you are.
O, Cassius, if you could 140
But win the noble Brutus to our party--

CASSIUS. Be you content. Good Cinna, take this paper,
And look you lay it in the praetor's chair,
Where Brutus may but find it; and throw this
In at his window; set this up with wax 145
Upon old Brutus' statue: all this done,
Repair to Pompey's porch, where you shall find us.
Is Decius Brutus and Trebonius there?

[Note 137: Two lines in Ff.]

[Note 140: /O, Cassius/ | Ff print in line 139.]

[Note 141: /the noble Brutus/ | Ff print in line 140.]

[Note 143: /in the praetor's chair./ "But for Brutus, his
friends and countrymen, both by divers procurements and sundry
rumours of the city, and by many bills[A] also, did openly
call and procure him to do that he did. For under the image of
his ancestor Junius Brutus, (that drave the kings out of Rome)
they wrote: 'O, that it pleased the gods thou wert now alive,
Brutus!' and again, 'that thou wert here among us now!' His
tribunal or chair, where he gave audience during the time he
was Praetor, was full of such bills: 'Brutus, thou art asleep,
and art not Brutus indeed.'"--Plutarch,