Re-enter Dolabella. Dol. How goes it here? Dol. All dead. Cæsar, thy thoughts Touch their effects in this: thyself art coming [Within. 'A way there, a way for Cæsar!' Re-enter Cæsar and his train. Dol. O sir, you are too sure an augurer; Cæs. Dol. Bravest at the last, 340 Who was last with them? I do not see them bleed. I found her trimming up the diadem On her dead mistress; tremblingly she stood, Cæs. O noble weakness! 350 Dol. In her strong toil of grace. Here, on her breast, There is a vent of blood, and something blown: First Guard. This is an aspic's trail: and these figleaves Have slime upon them, such as the aspic leaves Cæs. Most probable 360 No grave upon the earth shall clip in it 356. "caves"; so Ff. 2, 3, 4; F. 1, "caues"; Barry conj. "canes"; Anon. conj. “caves"; Perring conj. "course."—I. G. 358. To pursue conclusions is to try experiments. Plutarch gives the following account of these experiments: "Cleopatra was very carefull in gathering all sorts of poisons together, to destroy men. Now, to make proofe of those poisons which made men die with least paine, she tried it upon condemned men in prison. She afterwards went about to prove the stinging of snakes and adders, and made some to be applyed unto men in her sight. So, when she had daily made diverse and sundry proofes, she found none of them all so fit as the biting of an aspicke; the which causeth only a heavinesse of the head, without swouning or complaining, and bringeth also a great desire to sleepe, with a sweate in the face; and so by litle and litle taketh away the senses and vitall powers, no living creature perceiving that the patients feele any paine. For they are so sorie when any body awaketh them and taketh them up, as those that be taken out of a sound sleepe.”— H. N. H. Brought them to be lamented. Our army shall And then to Rome. Come, Dolabella, see High order in this great solemnity. [Exeunt. GLOSSARY By ISRAEL GOLLANCZ, M.A. ABHORRING, abomination; V. ii. 60. ABODE, staying; I. ii. 189. ABSTRACT; "the a. of all faults," "a microcosm of sinfulness"; I. iv. 9. ABUSED, ill-used; III. vi. 86. ABYSM, abyss; III. xiii. 147. ADMITTED, acknowledged; registered; (Theobald, “omitted”); V. ii. 140. AFEARD, afraid; II. v. 81. AFFECT'ST, pleases; (F. 1, "affects"); I. iii. 71. AID; "pray in a.", seek assistance, call in help from another; V. ii. 27. ALCIDES, Hercules; IV. xii. 44. ALIKE; "having a. your cause," "being engaged in the same cause with you" (Malone); II. ii. 51. ALL-OBEYING, obeyed by all; III. xiii. 77. ALMS-DRINK, "leavings"; (according to Warburton a phrase amongst good fellows to signify that liquor of another's share which his companion drinks to ease him); II. vii. 5. ANGLE, angling-line, fishing-line; II. v. 10. ANSWER, render account; III. xiii. 27. ANTONIAD, the name of the flagship of Cleopatra; III. x. 2. APACE, fast; IV. vii. 6. APPEAL, impeachment; III. v. 12. APPROOF; "and as my farthest band shall pass on thy a.", i. e. "such as when tried will prove to be beyond anything that I can promise" (Schmidt); III. ii. 27. APPROVES, proves; I. i. 60. ARABIAN BIRD, i. e. the Phoenix; III. ii. 12. ARGUMENT, proof; III. xii. 3. ARM-GAUNT, (vide Note); I. v. 48. ARMORER, one who has care of the armor of his master; IV. iv. 7. As, as if; I. ii. 105. AS LOW AS, lower than; III. iii. 37. ASPIC, asp, a venomous snake; V. ii. 296. -'s, (Ff. 2, 3, 4, "Aspects"); V. ii. 354. As 'T, as if it; IV. viii. 6. await; III. x. 32. AUGURER, diviner, foreteller; V. ii. 337. AUGURING, prophesying; II. i. 10. AVOID, begone, withdraw; V. ii. 242. BAND, bond; II. vi. 132; III. ii. 26. BANQUET, dessert; I. ii. 12. BARK'D, peeled; IV. xii. 23. BATTERY; "b. from my heart," i. e. the battery proceeding from the beating of, my heart; IV. xiv. 39. BATTLE, army; III. ix. 2. BEREAVE, deprive; V. ii. 130. BLOWN, Swollen; V. ii. 352. BOGGLER, inconstant woman; III. xiii. 110. BOLTS UP, fetters; V. ii. 6. BOOT; "make b.”, take advantage; BOOT THEE WITH, give thee to boot, give thee in addition; II. v. 71. BOY MY GREATNESS, alluding to the fact of boys or youths playing female parts on the stage in the time of Shake speare; V. ii. 220. BRANDED, stigmatized; IV. xiv. 77. BRAVE, defy; IV. iv. 5. BREAK, communicate; I. ii. 191. BREATHER, one who lives; III. iii. 24. BREATHING, utterance; I. iii. 14. BRING ME, i. e. bring me word; BROOCH'D, adorned as with a brooch; (Wray conj. "brook'd"); IV. xv. 25. BURGONET, a close-fitting helmet; I. v. 24. BUT, if not; V. ii. 103. But being, except, unless we are; IV. xi. 1. BUT IT IS, except it be, if it be not; V. i. 27. By, according to; III. iii. 43. CALL ON HIM, call him to account; (?) “visit,” (Schmidt); I. iv. 28. CANTLE, piece; III. x. 6. CARBUNCLED, set with carbuncles; IV. viii. 28. CARRIAGE; "the c. of his chafe", the bearing of his passion, i. e. his angry bearing; I. iii. 85. CARRIES BEYOND, surpasses; III. vii. 76. CAST, cast up, calculate; III. ii. 17. CHANCE; "Wounded ch.", broken fortunes; III. x. 36. fortune; V. ii. 174. -, occur; III. iv. 13. CHARE, task; V. ii. 231. CHARES, drudgery; IV. xv. 75. CIRCLE, Crown; III. xii. 18. |