FIRST CITIZEN. Those that have been decreed.
SECOND CITIZEN. Decreed! Are you mad, I ask you?
FIRST CITIZEN. Am I mad?
SECOND CITIZEN. Oh! this is the height of folly!
FIRST CITIZEN. Because I obey the law? Is that not the first duty of an honest man?
SECOND CITIZEN. Say rather of a ninny.
FIRST CITIZEN. Don't you propose taking what belongs to you to the common stock?
SECOND CITIZEN. I'll take good care I don't until I see what the majority are doing.
FIRST CITIZEN. There's but one opinion, namely, to contribute every single thing one has.
SECOND CITIZEN. I am waiting to see it, before I believe that.