Cor. Say then,'tis true. I ought so.
Sic. WE CHARGE YOU, that you have contrived to take
From Rome, all seasoned office, and to wind
Yourself into a_ POWER TYRANNICAL;
For which, you are A TRAITOR to the PEOPLE.
Cor. How! Traitor?
Men. Nay, temperately: Your promise.
Cor. The fires in the lowest hell fold in the people! Call me their traitor!
Cit. To the rock, to the rock with him.
Sic. Peace.
We need not put new matter to his charge:
What you have seen him do, and heard him speak,
Beating your officers, cursing yourselves,
Opposing laws with strokes, and here defying
Those whose great power must try him; even THIS,
So criminal, and in such CAPITAL kind,
Deserves the extremest death….
For that he has,
As much as in him lies, from time to time,
Envied against the people; seeking means
To pluck away their power: as now, at last,
Given hostile strokes, and that, not in the presence
Of dreaded justice, but on the ministers
That do distribute it; in the name o' the people,
And in the power of us, the tribunes, we,
Even from this instant, banish him our city,
In peril of precipitation
From off the rock Tarpeian, never more
To enter our Rome's gates. I' THE PEOPLE'S NAME
I say it shall be so.
Cit. It shall be so, it shall be so: let him away,
He's banish'd, and it shall be so.
Com. Hear me, MY MASTERS, and my COMMON FRIENDS.
Sic. HE'S SENTENCED: no more hearing.