[Mark it well, for it is not, as one may see who looks at it but a little, it is not the lost Roman weal and its danger that fires the passion of this speech. 'Look at this player whether he has not turned his colour, and has tears in his eyes.' 'What's Hecuba to him or he to Hecuba, that he should weep for her? What would he do, had he the motive and the cue for passion that I have.']
—if none, awake
Your dangerous lenity. If you are learned,
Be not as common fools; if you are not—
What do you draw this foolish line for, that separates you from the commons? If you are not, there's no nobility. If you are not, what business have you in these chairs of state?
—if you are not,
Let them have cushions by you. You are plebeians,
If they be senators; and they are no less,
When both your voices blended, the GREATEST TASTE
Most palates theirs. They choose their magistrate;
And such a one as he, who puts his shall,—
[Mark it, his popular shall].
His popular shall, against a graver bench
Than ever frown'd in Greece! By Jove himself,
It makes the consuls base: and my soul aches,
To know, when two authorities are up,
[Neither able to rule].
Neither supreme, how soon confusion May enter twixt the GAP of BOTH, and take The one by the other.
Com. Well,—on to the market place.
Cor. Whoever gave that counsel, to give forth The corn o' the store-house gratis, as 'twas used Sometime in Greece.