The Shake-speare tragedy of Julius Cæsar . fered to Caesar, an event not yet reached in the play. **i. e., with scarfs and badges appropriate to the ceremonies of the day. Cf. Sidney: Aeneas . . carrying away his religious cere-monies. Apol. Poetrie (1581). Act I. Scene I. Marullus. May we do so?You know it is the feast of Lupercal.* *A festival in honor of the God Lupercal, whose wifein the guise of a wolf was believed to have acted the partof a nurse to Romulus and Remus. It was held on the ISthof February annually. Flavins. It is no matter; let no imagesBe hung with Csesars trophies. Ill ab
The Shake-speare tragedy of Julius Cæsar . fered to Caesar, an event not yet reached in the play. **i. e., with scarfs and badges appropriate to the ceremonies of the day. Cf. Sidney: Aeneas . . carrying away his religious cere-monies. Apol. Poetrie (1581). Act I. Scene I. Marullus. May we do so?You know it is the feast of Lupercal.* *A festival in honor of the God Lupercal, whose wifein the guise of a wolf was believed to have acted the partof a nurse to Romulus and Remus. It was held on the ISthof February annually. Flavins. It is no matter; let no imagesBe hung with Csesars trophies. Ill about,And drive away the vulgar from the streets;*So do you too, where you perceive them growing feathers pluckd from Csesars wingWill make him fly an ordinary pitch,||Who else would soar above the view of keep us all in servile fearfulness. {Exeunt. *From the Latin Vulgus, common people, used here inthe Latin sense. \\The language of hawking. That is, the plucking of thefeathers will restrain him to an ordinary A Public Place. Enter, in procession with Music, C^SAR; AN-TONY, for the course; CALPURNIA, PORTIA,DECIUS, CICERO, BRUTUS, CASSIUS, andCASCA, a great crowd following, among them aSoothsayer. Ccesar. Calpurnia !* *The name of Caesars wife was properly Calpurnia, butthe dramatist called her Calphurnia in the folio, follow-ing Plutarch. She was his fourth wife, he having beenmarried to her fifteen years at the time of his death. Casca. Peace, ho! Csesar speaks. {Music Calpurnia!Calpurnia. Here, my lord. 6 Julius C^sae. CcBsar. Stand you directly in Antonius wayWhen he doth run his course.—Antonius !* *An allusion to the festivities of the Lupercalia, in thecourse of which the priests of the order ran through the mostfrequented streets of the city, smiting those who came intheir way. On this occasion a special society had been ini-tiated in honor of Caesar, with Marc Antony at its head. Antony. Caesar, my lord! CcEsar. Forget not,
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