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M. W. MacCallum, Shakespeare's Roman Plays and their Background, Julius Caesar, chapter 4 (search)
Brutus: His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him, that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, This was a man. (v. v. 73.) Some critics have endeavoured to minimise this coincidence on the ground that it was a common idea that man was compounded of the four elements. But that would not account for such close identity of phrase. There must be some connection; and that Drayton, not Shakespeare, was the copyist, is rendered probable by the circumstance that Drayton, in 1619, i.e. after Shakespeare's death, makes a still closer approach to Shakespeare's language. He was a man, then, boldly dare to say, In whose rich soul the virtues well did suit; In whom, so mix'd the elements all lay, That none to one could sovereignty impute; As all did govern, yet all did obey: He of a temper was so absolute As that it seem'd, when Nature him began, She meant to show all that might be in man.Collier's Shakespeare. (2) Apart, however, from these apparent adap