The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar

by William Shakespeare

[I.209] to F₁F₂ | up F₃F₄.

[I.210] Scene VII Pope.

[I.211] what: what a. For the omission of the indefinite article, common in Shakespeare, see Abbott, § 86. In the Folios the interrogation mark and the exclamation mark are often interchanged.

[I.212] this! Dyce this? Ff.

[I.213] l. 42 Two lines in Ff.

[I.214] unbraced: unbuttoned, with open doublet. For such anachronisms see [note, p. 26, l. 263]; also p. [48, l. 73].

[I.215] thunder-stone: thunder-bolt. It is still a common belief in Scotland and Ireland that a stone or bolt falls with lightning. Cf. Cymbeline, IV, ii, 271: "Nor the all-dreaded thunder-stone."

[I.216] cross: zigzag. So in King Lear, IV, vii, 33-35:

To stand against the deep, dread-bolted thunder?

In the most terrible and nimble stroke