ffect on the people; and when it is done we
feel that Caesar's bleeding wounds are mightier than ever his genius and
fortune were. The quarrel of Brutus and Cassius is deservedly
celebrated. Dr. Johnson thought it "somewhat cold and unaffecting."
Coleridge thought otherwise. See note, p. 123. But there is nothing in
the play that is more divinely touched than the brief scene, already
noticed, of Brutus and his boy Lucius--so gentle, so dutiful, so loving,
so thoughtful and careful for his master, and yet himself no more
conscious of his virtue than a flower of its fragrance. There is no more
exquisite passage in all Shakespeare than that which tells of the boy's
falling asleep in the midst of his song and exclaiming on being aroused,
"The strings, my lord, are false."

AUTHORITIES

(With the more important abbreviations used in the notes)

F1 = First Folio, 1623.
F2 = Second Folio, 1632.
F3 = Third Folio, 1664.
F4 = Fourth Folio, 1685.
Ff = all the seventeenth century Folios.
Rowe = Rowe's editions, 1709, 1714.
Pope = Pope's editions, 1723, 1728.
Theobald = Theobald's editions, 1733, 1740.
Johnson = Johnson's edition, 1765.
Capell = Capell's edition, 1768.
Malone = Malone's edition, 1790.
Steevens = Steevens's edition, 1793.
Globe = Globe edition (Clark and Wright), 1864.
Clar = Clarendon Press edition (W. A. Wright), 1869.
Dyce = Dyce's (third) edition, 1875.
Delius = Delius's (fifth) edition, 1882.
Camb = Cambridge (third) edition (W. A. Wright), 1891.
Abbott = E. A. Abbott's _A Shakespearian Grammar_.
Schmidt = Schmidt's _Shakespeare Lexicon_.
Skeat = Skeat's _An Etymological Dictionary_.
Murray = _A New English Dictionary_ (_The Oxford Dictionary_).
Century = _The Century Dictionary_.
Plutarch = North's _Plutarch_, 1579.

CHRONOLOGICAL CHART

Except in the case of Shakespeare's plays (see note) the literature
dates refer to first publication

-----+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
| SHAKESPEARE |
YEAR |--------------------+-----------------------------------------------|
| BIOGRAPHY: POEMS | PLAYS |
-----+--------------------+-----------------------------------------------+
1564 |Birth. Baptism, | |
| April 26,