1508Their needlesse Vouches: Custome calls me too't.

1509What Custome wills in all things, should we doo't?

1510The Dust on antique Time would lye vnswept,

1511And mountainous Error be too highly heapt,

1512For Truth to o're-peere. Rather then foole it so,

1513Let the high Office and the Honor go

1514To one that would doe thus. I am halfe through,

1515The one part suffered, the other will I doe.

1517Here come moe Voyces.

1518Your Voyces? for your Voyces I haue fought,

1519Watcht for your Voyces: for your Voyces, beare

1520Of Wounds, two dozen odde: Battailes thrice six

1521I haue seene, and heard of: for your Voyces,

1522Haue done many things, some lesse, some more:

1523Your Voyces? Indeed I would be Consull.

15241. Cit. Hee ha's done Nobly, and cannot goe without

1525any honest mans Voyce.

15262. Cit. Therefore let him be Consull: the Gods giue him

1527ioy, and make him good friend to the People.

1528All. Amen, Amen. God saue thee, Noble Consull.

1529Corio. Worthy Voyces.

1531Mene. You haue stood your Limitation:

1532And the Tribunes endue you with the Peoples Voyce,

1533Remaines, that in th' Officiall Markes inuested,

1534You anon doe meet the Senate.

1535Corio. Is this done?

1536Scicin. The Custome of Request you haue discharg'd:

1537The People doe admit you, and are summon'd

1538To meet anon, vpon your approbation.

1539Corio. Where? at the Senate-house?

1540Scicin. There, Coriolanus.

1541Corio. May I change these Garments?

1542Scicin. You may, Sir.

1543Cori. That Ile straight do: and knowing my selfe again,

1544Repayre to th'Senate-

1545house. Mene. Ile keepe you company. Will you along?

1546Brut. We stay here for the People.

1547Scicin. Fare you well. Exeunt Coriol. and Mene.

1548He ha's it now: and by his Lookes, me thinkes,

1549'Tis warme at's heart.

1550Brut. With a prowd heart he wore his humble Weeds:

1551Will you dismisse the People?

1553Scici. How now, my Masters, haue you chose this man?

15541. Cit. He ha's our Voyces, Sir.

1555Brut. We pray the Gods, he may deserue your loues.

15562. Cit. Amen, Sir: to my poore vnworthy notice,

1557He mock'd vs, when he begg'd our Voyces.

15583. Cit. Certainely, he flowted vs downe-right.

15591. Cit. No, 'tis his kind of speech, he did not mock vs.

15602. Cit. Not one amongst vs, saue your selfe, but sayes

1561He vs'd vs scornefully: he should haue shew'd vs

1562His Marks of Merit, Wounds receiu'd for's Countrey.

1563Scicin. Why so he did, I am sure.

1564All. No, no: no man saw 'em.

15653. Cit. Hee said hee had Wounds,

1566Which he could shew in priuate:

1567And with his Hat, thus wauing it in scorne,

1568I would be Consull, sayes he: aged Custome,

1569But by your Voyces, will not so permit me.

1570Your Voyces therefore: when we graunted that,

1571Here was, I thanke you for your Voyces, thanke you

1572Your most sweet Voyces: now you haue left your Voyces,

1573I haue no further with you. Was not this mockerie?

1574Scicin. Why eyther were you ignorant to see't?

1575Or seeing it, of such Childish friendlinesse,

1576To yeeld your Voyces?

1577Brut. Could you not haue told him,

1578As you were lesson'd: When he had no Power,

1579But was a pettie seruant to the State,

1580He was your Enemie, euer spake against

1581Your Liberties, and the Charters that you beare

1582I'th' Body of the Weale: and now arriuing

1583A place of Potencie, and sway o'th' State,

1584If he should still malignantly remaine

1585Fast Foe to th'Plebeij, your Voyces might

1586Be Curses to your selues. You should haue said,

1587That as his worthy deeds did clayme no lesse

1588Then what he stood for: so his gracious nature

1589Would thinke vpon you, for your Voyces,

1590And translate his Mallice towards you, into Loue,

1591Standing your friendly Lord.

1592Scicin. Thus to haue said,

1593As you were fore-aduis'd, had toucht his Spirit,

1594And try'd his Inclination: from him pluckt

1595Eyther his gracious Promise, which you might

1596As cause had call'd you vp, haue held him to;

1597Or else it would haue gall'd his surly nature,

1598Which easily endures not Article,

1599Tying him to ought, so putting him to Rage,

1600You should haue ta'ne th' aduantage of his Choller,

1601And pass'd him vnelected.

1602Brut. Did you perceiue,

1603He did sollicite you in free Contempt,

1604When he did need your Loues: and doe you thinke,

1605That his Contempt shall not be brusing to you,

1606When he hath power to crush? Why, had your Bodyes

1607No Heart among you? Or had you Tongues, to cry

1608Against the Rectorship of Iudgement?

1609Scicin. Haue you, ere now, deny'd the asker:

1610And now againe, of him that did not aske, but mock,

1611Bestow your su'd-for Tongues?

16123. Cit. Hee's not confirm'd, we may deny him yet.

16132. Cit. And will deny him:

1614Ile haue fiue hundred Voyces of that sound.

16151. Cit. I twice fiue hundred, & their friends, to piece 'em.

1616Brut. Get you hence instantly, and tell those friends,

1617They haue chose a Consull, that will from them take

1618Their Liberties, make them of no more Voyce

1619Then Dogges, that are as often beat for barking,

1620As therefore kept to doe so.

1621Scici. Let them assemble: and on a safer Iudgement,

1622All reuoke your ignorant election: Enforce his Pride,

1623And his old Hate vnto you: besides, forget not

1624With what Contempt he wore the humble Weed,

1625How in his Suit he scorn'd you: but your Loues,

1626Thinking vpon his Seruices, tooke from you

1627Th' apprehension of his present portance,

1628Which most gibingly, vngrauely, he did fashion

1629After the inueterate Hate he beares you.

1630Brut. Lay a fault on vs, your Tribunes,

1631That we labour'd (no impediment betweene)

1632But that you must cast your Election on him.

1633Scici. Say you chose him, more after our commandment,

1634Then as guided by your owne true affections, and that

1635Your Minds pre-occupy'd with what you rather must do,

1636Then what you should, made you against the graine

1637To Voyce him Consull. Lay the fault on vs.

bb Brut. I,