Chapter XXIX: Appendix: A

NEAREST PARALLELS BETWEEN GARNIER’S _CORNELIE_, IN THE FRENCH AND ENGLISH VERSIONS, AND _JULIUS CAESAR_

It should be remembered that it is not on these particular equivalents, mostly very loose, that those who uphold the theory of connection between the two plays rely, but on the general drift of the corresponding scenes which in this respect strikingly resemble each other and in no way produce the same impression as the narrative of Plutarch.

_French. English._

_Cassie._ Miserable Cité, tu _Cassius._ Accursed Rome,
armes contre toy that arm’st against thy selfe

La fureur d’un Tyran pour le A Tyrants rage, and mak’st a
faire ton Roy: wretch thy King:

Tu armes tes enfans, injurieuse For one mans pleasure
Romme, (O injurious Rome!)

Encontre tes enfans, pour le Thy chyldren gainst thy
plaisir d’un homme: chyldren arm’d:

Et ne te souvient plus _And thinkst not of the_
_d’avoir faict autrefois_ _riuers of theyr bloode,_

_Tant ruisseler de sang four_ _That earst were shed to_
_n’avoir point de Rois,_ _ saue thy libertie,_

_Pour n’estre point esclave,_ _Because thou euer hatedst_
_et ne porter flechie_ _Monarchie_.[264]...

_Au sendee d’un seul, le joug de_
_Monarchie_.[265] (line 1065.)

[264]
Shall Rome stand under one man’s awe? What, Rome?
My ancestors did from the streets of Rome
The Tarquin drive when he was call’d a King.
(II. i. 51.)

[265]
Shall Rome stand under one man’s awe? What, Rome?
My ancestors did from the streets of Rome
The Tarquin drive when he was call’d a King.
(II. i. 51.)

... Quoy Brute? et nous faut-il But, Brutus, shall wee
trop craignant le danger, dissolutelie sitte

Laisser si laschement sous un And see the tyrant line
Prince ranger? to tyranize?

_Faut-il que tant de gens morts_ Or shall _theyr ghosts,_
_pour nostre franchise_ _that dide to doe us good_,

_Se plaignent aux tombeaux de_ _Plaine in their Tombes of_
_nostre couardise?_ _our base cowardise_....
Et que les _peres vieux voisent_
_disant de nous_,

“_Ceux-là ont mieux aimé, tant_ “_See where they goe that haue_
_ils ont le coeur mous,_ _theyr race forgot!_

_Honteusement servir en_ _And rather chuse, (unarm’d)_
_dementant leur race,_ _to serue with shame,_

_Qu’armez pour le païs mourir_ _Then, (arm’d), to saue their_
_dessus la place._”[266] _freedom and their fame!_”[267]
(line 1101.)

[266]
Age, thou art shamed!
Rome, thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods!
(I. ii. 150.)

Our fathers’ minds are dead
And we are govern’d by our mothers’ spirits,
Our yoke and sufferance show us womanish.
(I. iii. 82.)

[267]
Age, thou art shamed!
Rome, thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods!
(I. ii. 150.)

Our fathers’ minds are dead
And we are govern’d by our mothers’ spirits,
Our yoke and sufferance show us womanish.
(I. iii. 82.)

_Brute._ Je jure par le Ciel, _Brutus._ I swear by heauen,
thrône des Immortels, th’ Immortals highest throne.

Par leurs images saincts, leurs Their temples, Altars, and
temples, leurs autels, theyr Images,

De ne souffrir, vray Brute, To see (for one) that Brutus
aucun maistre entreprendre suffer not

Sur nostre liberte, si je la His ancient liberty to be
puis defendre. represt.

J’ai Cesar en la guerre I freely marcht with Caesar
ardentement suyvi, in hys warrs,

Pour maintenir son droit, Not to be subject, but to ayde
non pour vivre asservi ... his right, ...

... Il verra que Decime But he shall see, that Brutus
a jusques aujourdhuy thys day beares

Porté pour luy l’estoc qu’il The self-same Armes to be
trouvera sur luy. aueng’d on hym....

... _Je l’aime cherement_, _I loue, I loue him deerely._
_je l’aime, mais le droit_ But the loue

_Qu’on doit à son païs_, _That men theyr Country and_
_qu’à sa naissance on doit,_ _theyr birth-right beare,_

_Tout autre amour surmonte._[268]... _Exceeds all loues._[269]...
(line 1109.)

_Cassie._ Tandisque Cassie aura _Cassius_.... Know, while
goutte de sang Cassius hath one drop of blood

En son corps animeux, il voudra To feede this worthles body
vivre franc, that you see,

_Il fuira le servage ostant_ What reck I death, to doe so
_la tyrannie,_ many good?

[268]
If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of
Caesar’s, to him I say, that Brutus’ love to Caesar was
no less than his. If then that friend demand why Brutus
rose against Caesar, this is my answer:—Not that I
loved Caesar less but that I loved Rome more.
(III. ii. 19.)

[269]
If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of
Caesar’s, to him I say, that Brutus’ love to Caesar was
no less than his. If then that friend demand why Brutus
rose against Caesar, this is my answer:—Not that I
loved Caesar less but that I loved Rome more.
(III. ii. 19.)

_Ou l’ame de son corps il_ _In spite of Caesar_,
_chassera bannie._[270] _Cassius will be free._[271]

_Brute._ Toute ame genereuse _Brutus._ A generous or
indocile a servir true enobled spirit

Deteste les Tyrans. Detests to learne what tasts
of seruitude.

_Cassie._ Je ne puis m’asservir, _Cassius._ Brutus, I cannot
serue nor see Rome yok’d:

Ny voir que Rome serve, et plustost No, let me rather die a
la mort dure thousand deaths....

M’enferre mille fois, que vivant
je l’endure....

O chose trop indigne! O base indignitie!
_Un homme effeminé_ ... _A beardles youth_[272] ...

_Commande a l’Univers, la terre_ _Commaunds the world, and_
_tient en bride_,[273] _brideleth all the earth_,[274]

Et maistre donne loy au And like a prince controls
peuple Romulide, the Romulists;

Aux enfants du dieu Mars.... Braue Roman Souldiers,
sterne-borne sons of Mars....

O Brute, O Servilie, O Brutus, speake!
Qu’ores vous nous laissez O say, Servilius!
une race avilie! Why cry you aime,[275]
and see us used thus?

Brute est vivant, il sçait, But Brutus liues, and sees,
il voit, il est present, and knowes, and feeles,

Que sa chere patrie on va That there is one that curbs
tyrannisant: their Countries weale.

Et comme s’il n’estoit Yet (as he were the semblance,
qu’une vaine semblance not the sonne,
De Brut son ayeul, non Of noble Brutus, his
sa vraye semence, great Grandfather);

S’il n’avoit bras ny mains, As if he wanted hands,
sens ny coeur, pour oser, sence, sight or hart,

Simulacre inutile, aux Tyrans He doth, deuiseth, sees,
s’opposer: nor dareth ought,

Il ne fait rien de Brute, et That may extirpe or raze
et d’heure en heure augmente these tyrannies:

Par trop de lascheté la force Nor ought doth Brutus that to
violente. (line 1201.) Brute belongs, But still
increaseth by his negligence
His owne disgrace and
Caesars violence.

[270]
Cassius from bondage will deliver Cassius ...
Life being weary of these worldly bars
Never lacks power to dismiss itself.
(I. iii. 90.)

[271]
Cassius from bondage will deliver Cassius ...
Life being weary of these worldly bars
Never lacks power to dismiss itself.
(I. iii. 90.)

[272] Notice the inept rendering.

[273]
It doth amaze me,
A man of such a feeble temper should
So get the start of the majestic world,
And bear the palm alone.
(I. ii. 128.)

[274]
It doth amaze me,
A man of such a feeble temper should
So get the start of the majestic world,
And bear the palm alone.
(I. ii. 128.)

[275] Approve or agree.