[IV.83] l. 123 Enter a Poet Ff.
[IV.84] ll. 124, 127, 128: [Within] Ff omit.
[IV.85] Enter Poet ... Lucius Camb Globe | Enter Poet, followed by Lucilius and Titinius Dyce | Enter Poet Theobald | Ff omit.
[IV.86] "One Marcus Phaonius, that ... took upon him to counterfeit a philosopher, not with wisdom and discretion, but with a certain bedlam and frantic motion; he would needs come into the chamber, though the men offered to keep him out. But it was no boot to let Phaonius, when a mad mood or toy took him in the head: for he was an hot hasty man, and sudden in all his doings, and cared for never a senator of them all. Now, though he used this bold manner of speech after the profession of the Cynic philosophers, (as who would say, Dogs,) yet his boldness did no hurt many times, because they did but laugh at him to see him so mad. This Phaonius at that time, in spite of the door-keepers, came into the chamber, and with a certain scoffing and mocking gesture, which he counterfeited of purpose, he rehearsed the verses which old Nestor said in Homer:
My lords, I pray you hearken both to me,
For I have seen mo years than suchie three.
Cassius fell a-laughing at him; but Brutus thrust him out of the chamber, and called him dog, and counterfeit Cynic. Howbeit his coming in brake their strife at that time, and so they left each other."—Plutarch, Marcus Brutus.
[IV.87] vilely F4 | vildely F1F2 | vildly F3.
[IV.88] doth Ff | does Capell.
[IV.89] jigging: moving rhythmically, rhyming. So in the Prologue to Marlowe's Tamburlaine the Great: