Would think upon you for your voices, and Sic. Tying him to aught; so, putting him to rage, You should have ta'en the advantage of his choler, And pass'd him unelected. Bru. Did you perceive, He did solicit you in free contempt, When he did need your loves; and do you think, That his contempt shall not be bruising to you, When he hath power to crush? Why, had your bodies No heart among you? Or had you tongues, to cry Against the rectorship of judgment? Sic. Have you, Ere now, deny'd the asker? and, now again, 3 Cit. He's not confirm'd, we may deny him yet. 2 Cit. And will deny him: I'll have five hundred voices of that sound. 1 Cit. I twice five hundred, and their friends to piece 'em. Bru. Get you hence instantly; and tell those friends, They have chose a consul, that will from them take Sic. Let them assemble; Bru. Sic. Say, you chose him More after our commandment, than as guided Bru. Ay, spare us not. Say, we read lectures to you, How youngly he began to serve his country, came That Ancus Marcius, Numa's daughter's son, Who, after great Hostilius, here was king; Of the same house Publius and Quintus were, That our best water brought by conduits hither; And nobly nam'd so, being censor twice, Sic. Bru. Say, you ne'er had done't, (Harp on that still,) but by our putting on: And presently, when you have drawn your number, Repair to the Capitol. Cit. We will so: almost all [several speak. Repent in their election. Bru. [Exeunt Citizens. Let them go on; This mutiny were better put in hazard, If, as his nature is, he fall in rage With their refusal, both observe and answer The vantage of his anger. Sic. To the Capitol: Come; we'll be there before the stream o' the peo ple; And this shall seem, as partly 'tis, their own, Which we have goaded onward. [Exeunt. Cornets. Enter Coriolanus, Menenius, Cominius, Titus Lartius, Senators, and Patricians. Cor. Tullus Aufidius then had made new head? Tit. He had, my lord; and that it was, which caus'd Our swifter composition. Cor. So then the Volces stand but as at first; Ready, when time shall prompt them, to make road Upon's again. Com. They are worn, lord consul, so, That we shall hardly in our ages see Their banners wave again. Cor. Saw you Aufidius? Tit. On safe-guard he came to me; and did curse Against the Volces, for they had so vilely Yielded the town: he is retir'd to Antium. Tit. Cor. He did, my lord. How? what? Tit. How often he had met you, sword to sword: That, of all things upon the earth, he hated Your person most: that he would pawn his fortunes To hopeless restitution, so he might Be call'd your vanquisher. Το Cor. Tit. At Antium. At Antium lives he? Cor. I wish I had a cause to seek him there, oppose his hatred fully.-Welcome home. [To Titus. Enter Sicinius and Brutus. Behold! these are the tribunes of the people, them; For they do prank them in authority, Against all noble sufferance. Com. Hath he not pass'd the nobles, and the commons? Bru. Cominius, no. Cor. Have I had children's voices? 1 Sen. Tribunes, give way; he shall to the mar Must these have voices, that can yield them now, And straight disclaim their tongues? What are your offices? |