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 358 Mason IV, iii, 155: this s.d. appears first in Pope, not in Rowe; Rowe's entirely different arrangement has already been recorded by Mr. Furness in the textual note on IV, iii, 139. IV, iii, 184: " Brutus's " appears in Rowe i and Theob. i, only; it is " Brutus " in Rowe ii and " Brutus' " in Theob. ii. IV, iii, 264: why not supply the modern s.d. here, introduced by Hanmer, Capell, and Var. '73, "[Exit Lucius."? IV, iii, 316: "let me see Pope." should read "let me see, Pope." IV, iii, 332, 333: "vanishest, 111 spirit"; should have been credited to Pope and Hanmer as well as to Rowe. V, i, s.d. : "The Fields of Philippi, with the two Camps." should be credited not to Rowe alone, but to the whole group indicated by "Rowe, -f," except that Var. '73 omits the prepositional phrase. V, i, 118-121: this passage is strangely collated; in the first place, "Pope, +," put a semi-colon, not a period, after "himself," and it is mere caprice to single out "Coll. Hal. Wh. i" as apparently the only modern editors who differ from the Folio punctuation when as a matter of fact all but two or three differ from it and neither are they the only three who put a period after "himself"; in the second place, the sense of the whole passage depends chiefly on the punctuation after "how," yet Mr. Furness does not record this point at all and so implies (what is wildly untrue) that every editor retains the Folio colon unchanged; and in the third place, it is thoroughly misleading to group together that long list of editions as if they all agreed in their pointing of the passage, when the Folios and Rowe really begin the sentence in a different place, while others vary the body of the passage, and yet others end it with a semi-colon, colon, or dash. V, ii, 8: it is difficult to understand the quality of mind and conscience responsible for the note on this line; we are assured that Rowe and all subsequent editions print a closing s.d. here, "Exeunt, Alarums." when as a matter of fact that s.d. appears in none of them; the sole ground for Mr. Furness' astonishing statement seems to be the fact that in Rowe ii, only, on the line below the s.d. " [Exeunt. " appears the catchword " Alarums., " referring to the s.d. at the top of the next page, beginning what is now called Scene III; this coincidence does not occur in Rowe i or in any other edition that I have turned to, while further- more there is a period, not a comma, after "Exeunt," even in Rowe ii, and most editions read "Alarum" or "Alarm," not