_Bru. Go not home_,
_Sic_. MEET on the MARKET-PLACE,--
[--that is where the "idols of the market" are--]
_We"ll attend you there: Where_, if you bring not Marcius, we"ll proceed In our _first way_.
_Men_. I"ll bring him to you.
Let me desire _your_ company [_To the Senators_] He _must_ come, Or what is worse will follow.
_Sen_. Pray you, let"s to him.
SCENE--THE FORUM.
_Enter Sicinius and Brutus_.
_Bru_. In this _point_ charge him _home_, that he affects TYRANNICAL POWER: if he evade us there, Enforce him with his envy to _the people_; And that the spoil, got on the Antiates, Was _ne"er distributed_.--
_Enter an aedile_.
What, will he come?
_aed_. He"s coming.
_Bru_. How accompanied?
_aed_. _With old Menenius_, and those senators That always favour"d him.
_Sic_. Have you a _catalogue_ Of all the voices that we have procured, _Set down by_ THE POLL?
_aed_. _I have; "tis ready._
_Sic_. Have you collected them BY TRIBES?
_aed_. I _have_.
_Sic_. a.s.semble presently the people hither: And when they hear _me_ say, _it shall be so_ _I_ the RIGHT and STRENGTH o" the COMMONS, be it either For death, for fine, or banishment, then let them, If I say _fine_, cry _fine_; if _death_, cry _death_; Insisting on the OLD _prerogative, And power i" THE TRUTH, o" THE CAUSE.
[There is a great difference in the delivery of the mathematics, which are the most abstracted of knowledges, and policy, which is the most immersed.--_Advancement_ of LEARNING.]
_aed_. I shall inform them.
_Bru_. And when such time they have begun to cry, Let them not cease, but with a din confused Enforce the present execution Of what we chance to sentence.
_aed_. Very well.
_Sic_. Make them _be strong_, and _ready for this hint_.
When we shall _hap_ to give"t them.
_Bru_. Go about it.
[_Exit aedile_.]
Put him to choler straight. He hath been used Ever to conquer, and to have his worth Of contradiction. Being once chafed, he cannot Be rein"d again to temperance; then he speaks What"s in his heart; and _that_ is there, which looks _With me to break his neck_. [Prophecy--inductive.]
Well, here he comes.
_Enter_ CORIOLa.n.u.s, _and his party_.
_Men_. Calmly, I do beseech you.
_Cor_. Ay, as an ostler, that for the poorest piece Will bear the knave by the volume. The honour"d G.o.ds Keep _Rome in safety_, and the CHAIRS of JUSTICE _Supplied_ with WORTHY MEN! _plant_ LOVE _among us_.
Throng OUR LARGE TEMPLES with the _shows_ of PEACE, And _not_ our STREETS with WAR.
_First Sen_. _Amen, Amen! [Hear, Hear_!]
_Men_. A n.o.bLE _wish_.
_Re-enter aedile with Citizens_.
_Sic_. Draw near, ye people.
_Cor_. First hear _me_ speak.
_aedile_. List to your _tribunes_. Audience: _Peace_, I say.
_Both Tri_. Well, say,--Peace, ho.
_Cor_. Shall I be charged no further than this present?
Must all determine here?
_Sic_. I do demand, If you submit you to the _people"s_ voices, Allow their _officers_, and are content To suffer _lawful censure for such faults As shall be proved upon you_?
_Cor_. I am content.
_Men_. Lo, citizens, he says he is content--
_Cor_. What is the matter, That being pa.s.s"d for consul, with full voice, I am so dishonour"d, that the very hour You take it off again?
_Sic_. _Answer to us_.
_Cor_. Say then,"tis true. _I ought so_.
Sic. WE CHARGE YOU, that you have contrived to take From Rome, all seasoned office, and to wind Yourself into a_ POWER TYRANNICAL; _For which_, you are A TRAITOR to the PEOPLE.
_Cor_. How! _Traitor_?
_Men_. Nay, temperately: Your promise.
_Cor_. The fires in the lowest h.e.l.l fold in the people!
Call me _their traitor_!