| ides of March | 15 March, the day of the assassination |
| schedule | a written paper (Artemidorus's letter) |
| suit | a request, a petition |
| o'erread | read over |
| touches us ourself | concerns me personally (royal "we") |
| enterprise | undertaking, plan (the plot) |
| be sudden | act quickly |
| prevention | being stopped |
| be constant | be firm, keep calm |
| address'd | ready, prepared |
| prefer | present (a petition) |
| amiss | wrong |
| redress | set right |
| puissant | powerful |
| couchings | bowing low |
| fond | foolish |
| spaniel-fawning | flattering like a fawning dog |
| spurn | kick away with contempt |
| cur | a worthless dog |
| repealing | calling back from banishment |
| enfranchisement | restoring of rights and freedom |
| firmament | the sky |
| apprehensive | able to understand (also: fearful) |
| unassailable | that cannot be attacked or shaken |
| Olympus | the mountain home of the Greek gods |
| bootless | uselessly |
| confounded | confused, shocked |
| mutiny | uproar, riot |
| abridged | cut short |
| besmear | smear all over |
| basis | pedestal (of Pompey's statue) |
| prostrate | lying face down |
| vouchsafe | grant, allow |
| resolved | told clearly, satisfied |
| misgiving | doubt, fear |
| rank | swollen, diseased (needing to be "let blood") |
| apt | ready |
| leaden | made of lead; blunt, harmless |
| dignities | high offices, positions of power |
| conceit | judge, think of |
| bay'd | cornered (as a hunted deer) |
| hart | a male deer (pun on "heart") |
| lethe | death; here, life-blood |
| compact | agreement |
| prick'd | marked down on a list |
| pulpit | raised platform for public speaking |
| cumber | burden, trouble |
| quarter'd | cut into pieces |
| fell | cruel, deadly |
| Ate | goddess of discord and revenge |
| havoc | the signal for merciless slaughter |
| carrion | rotting dead bodies |
| seven leagues | about 21 miles (a league is about three miles) |