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152 Leave this faint puling. Volumnia addresses Virgilia, who is weeping silently.

Whose double bosoms seems to wear one heart. The verbal plural in -s (cf. note on I. iv. 42), perhaps here used with some idea of the apparent unity of the 'double bosoms.'

To take the one the other. Construe with 'plots' in line 19: plots by which the one hopes to get the better of the other.

My birth-place hate I. For 'hate' the Folio misprints 'haue.'

o'er-bear. The Folio has 'o're-beate,' which a few editors defend.

Enter two of the Servingmen. That is, the Servingmen, who have been auditors, now advance. Compare II. i. 223 S. d.

but a greater soldier than he you wot on. The Folio reading is 'but a greater soldier than he, you wot one,' i.e., you know one greater soldier (Aufidius) than he. This can be justified, but Dyce's emendation, as given in the text, seems preferable. In any case the servants are speaking cautiously, drawing each other out.

boiled. Culinary editors, led by Pope, alter to 'broiled,' since that is the proper treatment of a 'carbonado' steak.

tame i' the present peace. Theobald added the preposition. The Folio reads: 'His remedies are tame, the present peace.'

Thrusts forth his horns again. The allusion is to the action of a snail. See next line.

some news is coming. Rowe has been usually followed in altering 'coming' to 'come,' but Shakespeare is fond of the conception of news as gradually unfolded by 'sequent messengers,' whose reports vary and cause uncertainty or suspense.