The Tragedie of Julius CaesarThis historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ...24. Sooth. Beware the Ides: 'There was a certain soothsayer that had given Caesar warning long time afore, to take heed of the day of the Ides of March (which is the fifteenth of the moneth), for on that day he would be in great danger. Shakespeare puts this a month before, at the Lupercal festival in February. In May, June, July, and October, also, the Ides fell on the fifteenth; in other months on the thirteenth. The derivation is supposed to be Etruscan, from iduo, and of uncertain meaning, but seems to carry a sense of division, the day midmonth being a dividing day, hence, also, a settling day for paying interest, debts, etc. 32. Sonnet: A set of notes played on the cornet, generally, it seems, indicative of a royal procession or one of near honor to that. 36-37. I do lacke.. that quicke Spirit that is in Antony: Brutus, according to his Life in Plutarch, 'framed his manner of life by the rules of vertue and study of philosophy, ' studied to 'follow Cato the philosopher, ' liked the 'Grecian philosophers and above all the rest, loved Plato's sect, ' and even in camp, when not with Pompey, 'did nothing but study all day long.' Antony, on the other hand, as Plutarch says in his Life, was ready 'to jest.. to drink like a good fellow with everybody and given to love.. brought many to love him.. and in his house they did nothing but feast, dance, and mask.' Brutus, like other grave 'noblemen, ' as Plutarch reports Cicero as saying, 'did not only mislike him, but also hate him for his naughty life.' 41. I have not from your eyes, thatgentlenesse: Without explaining their recent cause of quarrel, Shakespeare starts their serious talk from it, in accord with Plutarch's 'Life of Brutus ' 'Cassius.. did first of all speak to Brutus, since they grew... |