ག Did shake down mellow fruit: You have made fair work! Bru. But is this true, sir? Com. Ay; and you'll look pale Before you find it other. All the regions Do smilingly revolt; and, who resist, And perish constant fools. Who is't can blame him? Men. We are all undone, The noble man have mercy. unless Who shall ask it? Com. Does of the shepherds: for his best friends, if they Men. "Tis true: If he were putting to my house the brand Το say, 'Beseech you, cease. You have made fair You, and Com. hands, your crafts! you have crafted fair! A trembling upon Rome, such as was never So incapable of help. Tri. You have brought Say not, we brought it. Men. How! Was it we? We lov'd him; but, like beasts, And cowardly nobles, gave way to your clusters, 9 Revolt with pleasure. Who did hoot him out o'the city. Com. But, I fear Men. Enter a Troop of Citizens. Here come the clusters. And is Aufidius with him?-You are they That made the air unwholesome, when you cast And not a hair upon a soldier's head, Which will not prove a whip; as many coxcombs, If he could burn us all into one coal, We have deserv'd it. Cit. 'Faith, we hear fearful news. 1 Cit. For mine own part, When I said, banish him, I said, 'twas pity. 2 Cit. And so did I. 3 Cit. And so did I; and, to say the truth, so did very many of us: That we did, we did for the best : and though we willingly consented to his banishment, yet it was against our will. Com. You are goodly things, you voices! Men. You have made Good work, you and your cry!'-Shall us to the Capitol ? Pack; alluding to a pack of hounds. Com. O, ay; what else? [Exeunt Coм. and MEN. Sic. Go, masters, get you home, be not dismay'd; These are a side, that would be glad to have This true, which they so seem to fear. Go home, And show no sign of fear. 1 Cit. The gods be good to us! Come, masters, let's home. I ever said, we were i' the wrong, when we banished him. 2 Cit. So did we all. But come, let's home. Bru. I do not like this news. Sic. Nor I. [Exeunt Citizens. Bru. Let's to the Capitol :-Would, half my wealth Would buy this for a lie! Sic. Pray, let us go. [Exeunt, SCENE VII. A Camp; at a small distance from Rome. Enter AUFIDIUS, and his Lieutenant. Auf. Do they still fly to the Roman ? Lieu. I do not know what witchcraft's in him; but Your soldiers use him as the grace 'fore meat, And you are darken'd in this action, sir, Even by your own. Auf. I cannot help it now; Unless, by using means, I lame the foot Of our design. He bears himself more proudlier When first I did embrace him: Yet his nature Yet I wish, sir, Lieu. Auf. I understand thee well; and be thou sure, When he shall come to his account, he knows not What I can urge against him. Although it seems, And so he thinks, and is no less apparent To the vulgar eye, that he bears all things fairly, Lieu. Sir, I beseech you, think you he'll carry Rome? Auf. All places yield to him ere he sits down; And the nobility of Rome are his : The senators, and patricians, love him too : To expel him thence. I think, he'll be to Rome, By sovereignty of nature. A noble servant to them; First he was but he could not Carry his honours even whether 'twas pride, The happy man; whether defect of judgment, 2 An eagle that preys on fish. To fail in the disposing of those chances From the casque3 to the cushion, but commanding peace Even with the same austerity and garb As he controll'd the war; but, one of these,. For I dare so far free him,) made him fear'd, To extol what it hath done. One fire drives out one fire; one nail, one nail; Rights by rights fouler, strengths by strengths do fail. Come, let's away. When, Caius, Rome is thine, Thou art poor'st of all; then shortly art thou mine. [Exeunt. ACT V. SCENE I. Rome. A publick Place. Enter MENENIUS, COMINIUS, SICINIUS, BRUTUS, and Others. Men. No, I'll not go: you hear, what he hath said, Which was sometime his general ; who lov'd him In a most dear particular. He call'd me, father`: 3 Helmet. 4 The chair of civil authority. 5 Not all in their full extent. |