[I.246] favour: appearance. So in I, ii, 91. Johnson's emendation, though pleonastic, makes least change upon the text of the Folios.
[I.247] In favour's like Camb | In favour's, like Johnson | Is Favors, like F1F2 | Is Favours, like F3F4 | Is favour'd like Capell | Is feav'rous, like Rowe.
[I.248] bloody, fiery | bloodie, fierie Ff | bloody-fiery Dyce.
[I.249] close: hidden. So in 1 Chronicles, xii, 1: "He yet kept himself close because of Saul the son of Kish."
[I.250] gait Johnson | gate Ff.
[I.251] 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, § 342.
[I.252] l. 137 Two lines in Ff.
[I.253] O, Cassius | Ff print in line 139.
[I.254] the noble Brutus | Ff print in line 140.
[I.255] in the prætor's chair. "But for Brutus, his friends and countrymen, both by divers procurements and sundry rumours of the city, and by many bills[1] 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 Prætor, was full of such bills: 'Brutus, thou art asleep, and art not Brutus indeed.'"—Plutarch, Marcus Brutus.