A TRAGEDY, EDITIONS COLLATED: 2 The Folio's, and Modern Editions. ▲ There appears to have been wo Edition of this Play older than the firft Folien The fo's and R. fpell this name Cafka. c H. calls him Decimus Brutus; Plutarch Dixios"Bpỡros, which in H. Stephens's Latin and in Dacier's French translation is render'd Decius Brutus. d The fo's, R. P. and C. call this name Marellus; which T. first alter'd to MaTullus, upon the authority of Plutarch. S K A ET C H O F THE PL A Y. Sc. I. R АСТ I. OME. A ftreet. Enter Flav. Mar. a Car penter, a Cobler, and certain other Commoners. Flav. and Mar. enquire of the Commoners, why they are got together in their best apparel, and without the figns of their trades, which they ought not, unless on a holiday. They answer, that they make holiday to see Cafar, and to rejoice in his triumph. Flav. and Mar. perfuade them to difperfe, and go home. Exeunt Commoners. Flav. and Mar. agree to difrobe the images they fhall find decked with trophies on Cafar's account. Exeunt. Sc. II. Enter Cafar, Ant. for the Courfe, Calph. Por. Dec. Cic. Bru. Caf. Cafe. a Soothsayer; after them Mar. and Flav. Caf. bids Ant. touch Calph. in the Courfe; it being an opinion that the barren, fo touched, would become fruitful. The Sooth Layer |