BRUTE GREEN-SHIELD, the successor of Ebranc king of Britain. The mythical line is: (1) Brute, great-great-grandson of Æneas; (2) Locrin, his son; (3) Guendolen, the widow of Locrin; (4) Ebranc; (5) Brute Green-Shield. Then follow in order Leil, Hudibras, Bladud, Leir [Shakespeare's "Lear"], etc. ... of her courageous kings, Brute Green-Shield, to whose name we providence impute Divinely to revive the land's first conqueror, Brute. Drayton, _Polyolbion_, viii. (1612). BRUTUS (_Lucius Junius_), first consul of Rome, who condemned his own two sons to death for joining a conspiracy to restore Tarquin to the throne, from which he had been banished. This subject has been dramatized by N. Lee (1679) and John H. Payne, under the title of _Brutus, or the_ _Fall of Tarquin_ (1820). Alfieri has an Italian tragedy on the same subject. In French we have the tragedies of Arnault (1792) and Ponsard (1843). (See LUCRETIA.) The elder Kean on one occasion consented to appear at the Glasgow theatre for his son's benefit. The play chosen was Payne's _Brutus_, in which the father took the part of "Brutus" and Charles Kean that of "Titus." The audience sat suffused in tears during the pathetic interview, till "Brutus" falls on the neck of "Titus," exclaiming in a burst of agony, "Embrace thy wretched father!" when the whole house broke forth into peals of approbation. Edmund Kean then whispered in his son's ear, "Charlie, we are doing the trick."--W. C. Russell, _Representative Actors_, p. 476. _Junius Brutus_. So James Lynch Fitz-Stephen has been called, because (like the first consul of Rome) he condemned his own son to death for murder, and to prevent a rescue caused him to be executed from the window of his own house in Galway (1493). _The Spanish Brutus_, Alfonso Perez de Gruzman, governor of Tarifa in 1293. Here he was besieged by the infant don Juan, who had revolted against his brother, king Sancho IV., and having Guzman's son in his power threatened to kill him unless Tarifa was given up to him. Guzman replied, "Sooner than be guilty of such treason I will lend Juan a dagger to slay my son;" and so saying tossed his dagger over the wall. Sad to say, Juan took the dagger, and assassinated the young man there and then (1258-1309). _Brutus (Marcus)_, said to be the son of Julius Cæsar by Servilia. Brutus' bastard hand Stabb'd Julius Cæsar. Shakespeare, 2 _Henry VI_. act iv. sc. 1 (1591). This Brutus is introduced by Shakespeare in his tragedy of _Julius Cæsar_, and the poet endows him with every quality of a true patriot. He loved Cæsar much, but he loved Rome more. _Brutus. Et tu, Brute_. Shakespeare, on the authority of Suetonius, puts these words into the mouth of Cæsar when Brutus stabbed him. Shakespeare's drama was written in 1607, and probably he had seen _The True Tragedy of Richard duke of York_ (1600), where these words occur; but even before that date H. Stephens had said: