Note 11 — Chapter Three THE STAGE
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Julius Caesar
Brutus. How many times shall Caesar bleed in sport, That now on Pompey’s basis lies along No worthier than the dust! (III, i, 114-116) Antony. Then burst his mighty heart; And in his mantle muffling up his face, Even at the base of Pompey’s statue, (Which all the while ran blood) great Caesar fell. (III, ii, 191-194)
Plutarch, Julius Caesar in Shakespeare’s Plutarch, I, p. 102. “But when [Caesar] saw Brutus with his sword drawn in his hand, then he pulled his gown over his head, and made no more resistance and was driven either casually or purposedly by the counsel of the conspirators against the base whereupon Pompey’s image stood, which ran all of a gore-blood till he was slain.”