[IV.36] [Low ...] in Ff after l. 24.
[IV.37] ll. 34, 35, 36 Soldier |Ff omit.
[IV.38] enlarge your griefs: enlarge upon your grievances. This use of 'grief' is not unusual in sixteenth century English.
[IV.39] Lucilius Ff | Lucius Craik.
[IV.40] Let Lucius Ff |Lucilius Craik.
[IV.41] ll. 50, 52 In previous editions of Hudson's Shakespeare was adopted Craik's suggestion that in these lines, as they stand in the Folios, the names Lucius and Lucilius got shuffled each into the other's place; and then, to cure the metrical defect in the third line, that line was made to begin with 'Let.' Craik speaks of "the absurdity of such an association as Lucius and Titinius for the guarding of the door." In Porter and Clarke's 'First Folio,' Julius Cæsar, the answer to this criticism is: "But a greater absurdity is involved in sending the page with an order to the lieutenant commander of the army, and the extra length of l. 50 pairs with a like extra length in l. 51. Lucilius, having been relieved by Lucius, after giving the order returns and guards the door again."
[IV.42] our Ff | the Rowe.
[IV.43] Scene III Pope | Rowe omits.
[IV.44] Scene III. Dowden points out that this scene was already celebrated in Shakespeare's own day, Leonard Digges recording its popularity, and Beaumont and Fletcher imitating it in The Maid's Tragedy. "I know no part of Shakespeare that more impresses on me the belief of his genius being superhuman than this scene between Brutus and Cassius."—Coleridge.
[IV.45] Brutus's tent Hanmer | Ff omit.