The folio reads 'Iudean,' and there has been great controversy on the subject. In any case the allusion is unknown. * * * * * "Their medicinal gum." The reading of the 4to; the folio has 'medicinable.' Mr. Dyce doubts if at that time 'medicinal,' with the accent on the penult, was in use; but this place might seem to prove it, and it may be so pronounced also in W. Tale, ii. 3. (See my note on Milton's Sam. Ag. 627.) In it the French and not the Latin accentuation was followed. * * * * * "Where a malignant and a turban'd Turk." Perhaps here, as elsewhere, 'Where' has taken the place of _When_. JULIUS CÆSAR. ACT I. SC. 1. "But if you _should_ be out, sir, I can mend you." For a similar omission, also injurious to the metre, see on Twelfth Night, ii. 5. * * * * * SC. 2. "That her wide walls encompass'd but one man." The folio has _walks_; the obvious correction is from Collier's folio. * * * * * "What you would work me to I have some aim _of_." * * * * * "From that it is disposed _to_; therefore 'tis meet." * * * * * SC. 3. "In favour's like the work we have in hand." 'In' is the necessary correction of _Is_ of the folio. See on K. John, iv. 2. ACT II. SC. 1. "Is not to-morrow, boy, the first of March?" The correction of Theobald, _Ides_, has been universally and properly adopted; for 'first' _must_ have been a printer's error. * * * * * "Brutus, thou sleepest: awake! Such instigations Have been often dropped where I took them up." * * * * * "_Speak, strike, redress!_--Am I entreated _then_?" * * * * * "Sir, March is wasted fifteen days." Theobald read _fourteen_, which was the exact number; but the error was the poet's. * * * * * "No, not an oath. If not the face of men." Warburton read _fate_, which Singer justifies; Mason _faith_. * * * * * "When Cæsar's head is off.--Yet I _do_ fear him." * * * * * SC. 2. "Fierce fiery warriors _did_ fight upon the clouds." * * * * * "Horses do neigh, and dying men did groan." The context demands the past tense here also. The 2nd folio properly therefore read _did_ for 'do.' See on Mer. of Ven. ii. 3. * * * * * "We were two lions, litter'd in one day." 'Were' is Theobald's correction of _hear_ of the original. Upton read equally well, _are_. * * * * * "For tinctures, stains, relics, and cognizances." I am rather dubious of 'stains'; as the meaning is not clear. * * * * *