Cor. Moft fweet voices Better it is to die, better to starve, Than crave the hire, which firft we do deserve. Rather than fool it fo, Let the high Office and the Honour go To one that would do thus.I am half through; Three Citizens more. Here come more voices. Your voices for your voices I have fought, Watch'd for your voices; for your voices, bear Of wounds two dozen and odd: battels thrice fix I've seen, and heard of: for your voices, have Done many things, fome lefs, fome more : voices : Indeed, I would be Conful. -your 1 Cit. He has done nobly, and cannot go without any honeft man's voice. 2 Cit. Therefore let him be Conful, the Gods give him joy, and make him a good friend to the People. All Amen, amen. God fave thee, noble Conful. Cor. Worthy voices! [Exeunt. Enter Menenius, with Brutus and Sicinius. Men. You've food your limitation: and the Tri bunes Endue you with the people's voice. Remains, That in th' official marks invested, you Anon do meet the Senate. Cor. Is this done? Sic. The Cuftom of Requeft you have difcharg'd: The The people do admit you, and are fummon'd Cor. May I change these garments ? Cor. That I'll ftraight do: and, knowing my felf again, Repair to th' Senate-house. Men. I'll keep you company. Will you along? Sic. Fare you well. [Exeunt Coriol. and Men He has it now, and by his looks, methinks, "Tis warm at's heart. Bru. With a proud heart he wore His humble Weeds: will you difmifs the people? Enter Plebeians. Sic. How now, my mafters, have you chofe this man ? 1 Cit. He has our voices, Sir. Bru. We pray the Gods, he loves! may deferve your 2 Cit. Amen, Sir: to my poor unworthy notice, He mock'd us, when he begg'd our voices. 3 Cit. Certainly, he flouted us down-right. i Cit. No, 'tis his kind of speech, he did not mock us. 2 Cit. Not one amongst us, fave your felf, but fays, He us'd us fcornfully: he should have shew'd us His marks of merit, wounds receiv'd for's Country. All. No, no man faw 'em. 3 Cit. He faid, he'd wounds, which he could fhew And with his cap, thus waving it in fcorn, Here I thank you for your 'voices Here was you Your moft fweet voices voices, thank now you have left your I have nothing further with you. Wa'n't this mockery? To yield your voices? Bru. Could you not have told him, As you were leffon'd; when he had no Power, Sic. Thus to have faid, As you were fore-advis'd, had touch'd his fpirit, Tying him to aught; fo, putting him to rage, Bru. Did you perceive, He did follicit you in free contempt, When he did need your loves? and do you think, When he hath power to crush? why, had your bo dies No heart among you? or had you tongues, to cry Against Against the rectorship of judgment? Sic. Have you, Ere now, deny'd the asker? and, now again Your fu'd-for tongues? 3 Cit. He's not confirm'd, we may deny him yet. I'll have five hundred voices of that found. 1 Cit. I, twice five hundred, and their friends to piece 'em. Bru. Get you hence inftantly, and tell those friends, Sic. Let them affemble; Your ignorant election: enforce his Pride, Bru. Nay, lay a fault on us, your Tribunes, that But that you must caft your election on him. Sic. Say, you chose him, more after our commandment, Than guided by your own affections; And that your minds, pre-occupied with what Bru. Ay, fpare us not: .fay, we read lectures to you, How youngly he began to ferve his Country, That That Ancus Marcius, Numa's daughter's fon, (And nobly nam'd fo for twice being Cenfor) Sic. One thus defcended, That hath befide well in his perfon wrought Bru. Say, you ne'er had don't, (Harp on that ftill) but by our putting on; All. We will fo; almost all repent in their election. Bru. Let them go on : [Exeunt Plebeians. This mutiny were better put in hazard, Than ftay paft doubt for greater: If, as his nature is, he fall in rage With their refufal, both obferve and answer The vantage of his anger. Sic. To th' Capitol, come; We will be there before the stream o'th' people : And this fhall feem, as partly 'tis, their own, [Exeunt. ACT |