When thy gifts thou offerest purely.
King.
Not at my hearth with precatory boughs
Ye lie. The state, if guilty taint from you
Affect the general weal, will for the state
Take counsel. I nor pledge nor promise give,
Till all the citizens hear what thou shalt say.
STROPHE II.
Chorus.
Thou art the state, and the people art thou,[n30]
The deed that thou doest who judges?