IUS | Bru. Rowe | Ff omit.]

[Note 9-11: Ff give to LUC. (Lucilius).]

[Note 2: /What bastard doth not:/ who is so base-born as not
to do so?]

[Note 7-8: The Folios omit the speaker's name. Rowe gave the
lines to Brutus, but they are utterly uncharacteristic of him.
Plutarch (see quotation below, l. 29) says that Lucilius
impersonated Brutus, and Shakespeare follows this, as l. 14
indicates. The Folios have no 'Exit' or stage direction after
l. 8. Professor Michael Macmillan says: "It seems probable
that the printers of the Folio by mistake put the heading
'Luc.' two lines too low down."]

[Note 11: "There was the son of Marcus Cato slain ... telling
aloud his name, and also his father's name."--Plutarch,
_Marcus Brutus_.]

[Page 161]

LUCILIUS. Only I yield to die:
There is so much that thou wilt kill me straight;
[_Offering money_]
Kill Brutus, and be honour'd in his death.

1 SOLDIER. We must not. A noble prisoner! 15

2 SOLDIER. Room, ho! Tell Antony, Brutus is ta'en.

1 SOLDIER. I'll tell the news. Here comes the general.

_Enter_ ANTONY

Brutus is ta'en, Brutus is ta'en, my lord.

ANTONY. Where is he?

LUCILIUS. Safe, Antony; Brutus is safe enough: 20
I dare assure thee that no enemy
Shall ever take alive the noble Brutus:
The gods defend him from so great a shame!
When you do find him, or alive or dead,
He will be found like Brutus, like himself 25

ANTONY. This is not Brutus, friend; but, I assure you,
A prize no less in worth: keep this man safe,
Give him all kindness: I had rather have
Such men my friends than enemies. Go on,
And see where Brutus be alive or dead; 30
And bring us word unto Octavius' tent
How every thing is chanc'd. [_Exeunt_]

[Note 13: [_Offering money_] | Ff omit.]

[Note 15: 1 SOLDIER | Sold. Ff.]

[Note 17: /the news/ Pope (ed. 1728) | thee newes Ff.]

[Note 18: _Enter_ ANTONY | in Ff after l. 15.]

[Note 26: /Brutus, friend/ F4 | Brutus friend | F1 F2 F3.]

[Note 30: /where/ Ff | whether Camb Globe | wh'er Capell.]

[Note 29: "There was one of Brutus' friends called Lucilius,
who seeing a troop of barbarous men making no reckoning of all
men else they met in their way, but going all together right
against Brutus, he determined to