[V.77] engender'd | engendred Ff.
[V.78] [Exit Messala] | Ff omit.
[V.79] "By-and-by they knew the horsemen that came towards them, and might see Titinius crowned with a garland of triumph, who came before with great speed unto Cassius. But when he perceived, by the cries and tears of his friends which tormented themselves, the misfortune that had chanced to his captain Cassius by mistaking, he drew out his sword, cursing himself a thousand times that he had tarried so long, and so slew himself presently in the field. Brutus in the meantime came forward still, and understood also that Cassius had been overthrown; but he knew nothing of his death till he came very near to his camp."—Plutarch, Marcus Brutus.
[V.80] Scene VI Pope.
[V.81] Re-enter Messala, with Brutus ... | Enter Brutus, Messala ... Ff.
[V.82] ll. 94-96 Brutus here strikes again, full and strong, the proper keynote of the play. The facts involved are well stated by Froude: "The murderers of Cæsar, and those who had either instigated them secretly or applauded them afterwards, were included in a proscription list, drawn by retributive justice on the model of Sulla's. Such of them as were in Italy were immediately killed. Those in the provinces, as if with the curse of Cain upon their heads, came one by one to miserable ends. In three years the tyrannicides of the Ides of March, with their aiders and abettors, were all dead; some killed in battle, some in prison, some dying by their own hand."
[V.83] where Ff | if Pope | whether Camb Globe | wh'er Capell | whêr Dyce.
[V.84] where: whether. So in [V, iv, 30]. See [note, p. 7, l. 63].
[V.85] The Ff | Thou Rowe.
[V.86] fare | far F1.