2259Bru. In this point charge him home, that he affects

2260Tyrannicall power: If he euade vs there,

2261Inforce him with his enuy to the people,

2262And that the Spoile got on the Antiats

2263Was ne're distributed. What, will he come?

2265Edile. Hee's comming.

2266Bru. How accompanied?

2267Edile. With old Menenius, and those Senators

2268That alwayes fauour'd him.

2269Sicin. Haue you a Catalogue

2270Of all the Voices that we haue procur'd, set downe by'th (Pole?

2271Edile. I haue: 'tis ready.

2272Sicin. Haue you collected them by Tribes?

2273Edile. I haue.

2274Sicin. Assemble presently the people hither:

2275And when they heare me say, it shall be so,

2276I'th' right and strength a'th' Commons: be it either

2277For death, for fine, or Banishment, then let them

2278If I say Fine, cry Fine; if Death, cry Death,

2279Insisting on the olde prerogatiue

2280And power i'th Truth a'th Cause.

2281Edile. I shall informe them.

2282Bru. And when such time they haue begun to cry,

2283Let them not cease, but with a dinne confus'd

2284Inforce the present Execution

2285Of what we chance to Sentence.

2286Edi. Very well.

2287Sicin. Make them be strong, and ready for this hint

2288When we shall hap to giu't them.

2289Bru. Go about it,

2290Put him to Choller straite, he hath bene vs'd

2291Euer to conquer, and to haue his worth

2292Of contradiction. Being once chaft, he cannot

2293Be rein'd againe to Temperance, then he speakes

2294What's in his heart, and that is there which lookes

2295With vs to breake his necke.

2298Sicin. Well, heere he comes.

2299Mene. Calmely, I do beseech you.

2300Corio. I, as an Hostler, that fourth poorest peece

2301Will beare the Knaue by'th Volume:

2302Th' honor'd Goddes

2303Keepe Rome in safety, and the Chaires of Iustice

2304Supplied with worthy men, plant loue amongs

2305Through our large Temples with y^e shewes of peace

2306And not our streets with Warre.

23071 Sen. Amen, Amen.

2308Mene. A Noble wish.

2310Sicin. Draw neere ye people.

2311Edile. List to your Tribunes. Audience:

2312Peace I say.

2313Corio. First heare me speake.

2314Both Tri. Well, say: Peace hoe.

2315Corio. Shall I be charg'd no further then this present?

2316Must all determine heere?

2317Sicin. I do demand,

2318If you submit you to the peoples voices,

2319Allow their Officers, and are content

2320To suffer lawfull Censure for such faults

2321As shall be prou'd vpon you.

2322Corio. I am Content.

2323Mene. Lo Citizens, he sayes he is Content.

2324The warlike Seruice he ha's done, consider: Thinke

2325Vpon the wounds his body beares, which shew

2326Like Graues i'th holy Church-yard.

2327Corio. Scratches with Briars, scarres to moue

2328Laughter onely.

2329Mene. Consider further:

2330That when he speakes not like a Citizen,

2331You finde him like a Soldier: do not take

2332His rougher Actions for malicious sounds:

2333But as I say, such as become a Soldier,

2334Rather then enuy you.

2335Com. Well, well, no more.

2336Corio. What is the matter,

2337That being past for Consull with full voyce:

2338I am so dishonour'd, that the very houre

2339You take it off againe.

2340Sicin. Answer to vs.

2341Corio. Say then: 'tis true, I ought so

2342Sicin. We charge you, that you haue contriu'd to take

2343From Rome all season'd Office, and to winde

2344Your selfe into a power tyrannicall,

2345For which you are a Traitor to the people.

2346Corio. How? Traytor?

2347Mene. Nay temperately: your promise.

2348Corio. The fires i'th' lowest hell. Fould in the people:

2349Call me their Traitor, thou iniurious Tribune.

2350Within thine eyes sate twenty thousand deaths

2351In thy hands clutcht: as many Millions in

2352Thy lying tongue, both numbers. I would say

2353Thou lyest vnto thee, with a voice as free,

2354As I do pray the Gods.

2355Sicin. Marke you this people?

2356All. To'th' Rocke, to'th' Rocke with him.

2357Sicin. Peace:

2358We neede not put new matter to his charge:

2359What you haue seene him do, and heard him speake:

2360Beating your Officers, cursing your selues,

2361Opposing Lawes with stroakes, and heere defying

2362Those whose great power must try him.

2363Euen this so criminall, and in such capitall kinde

2364Deserues th' extreamest death.

2365Bru. But since he hath seru'd well for Rome.

2366Corio. What do you prate of Seruice.

2367Brut. I talke of that, that know it.

2368Corio. You?

2369Mene. Is this the promise that you made your mother.

2370Com. Know, I pray you.

2371Corio. Ile know no further:

2372Let them pronounce the steepe Tarpeian death,

2373Vagabond exile, Fleaing, pent to linger

2374But with a graine a day, I would not buy

2375Their mercie, at the price of one faire word,

2376Nor checke my Courage for what they can giue,

2377To haue't with saying, Good morrow.

2378Sicin. For that he ha's

2379(As much as in him lies) from time to time

2380Enui'd against the people; seeking meanes

2381To plucke away their power: as now at last,

2382Giuen Hostile strokes, and that not in the presence

2383Of dreaded Iustice, but on the Ministers

2384That doth distribute it. In the name a'th' people,

2385And in the power of vs the Tribunes, wee

2386(Eu'n from this instant) banish him our Citie

2387In perill of precipitation

2388From off the Rocke Tarpeian, neuer more

2389To enter our Rome gates. I'th' Peoples name,

2390I say it shall bee so.

2391All. It shall be so, it shall be so: let him away:

2392Hee's banish'd, and it shall be so.

2393Com. Heare me my Masters, and my common friends.

2394Sicin. He's sentenc'd: No more hearing.

2395Com. Let me speake:

2396I haue bene Consull, and can shew from Rome

2397Her Enemies markes vpon me. I do loue

2398My Countries good, with a respect more tender,

2399More holy, and profound, then mine owne life,

2400My deere Wiues estimate, her wombes encrease,

2401And treasure of my Loynes: then if I would

2402Speake that.

2403Sicin. We know your drift. Speake what?

2404Bru. There's no more to be said, but he is banish'd

2405As Enemy to the people, and his Countrey.

2406It shall bee so.

2407All. It shall be so, it shall be so.

2408Corio. You common cry of Curs, whose breath I hate,

2409As reeke a'th' rotten Fennes: whose Loues I prize,

2410As the dead Carkasses of vnburied men,

2411That do corrupt my Ayre: I banish you,

2412And heere remaine with your vncertaintie.

2413Let euery feeble Rumor shake your hearts:

2414Your Enemies, with nodding of their Plumes

2415Fan you into dispaire: Haue the power still

2416To banish your Defenders, till at length

2417Your ignorance (which findes not till it feeles,

2418Making but reseruation of your selues,

2419Still your owne Foes) deliuer you

2420As most abated Captiues, to some Nation

2421That wonne you without blowes, despising

2422For you the City. Thus I turne my backe;

2423There is a world elsewhere.

2426Edile. The peoples Enemy is gone, is gone.

2427All. Our enemy is banish'd, he is gone: Hoo, oo.

2428Sicin. Go see him out at Gates, and follow him

2429As he hath follow'd you, with all despight

2430Giue him deseru'd vexation. Let a guard

2431Attend vs through the City.

2432All. Come, come, lets see him out at gates, come:

2433The Gods preserue our Noble Tribunes, come. Exeunt.