Impelled to follow and to share thy fate.
Vile dread hath passed, and I will offer here
Amends as daring as the fault was great;
And this the error of my guileless age
I'll pay by dying with a manly rage!
O valiant citizens, I here maintain
That I do hold your grand resolve as trust,
That these base Romans shall no triumph gain,
Unless it be above our very dust!
Their scheming plans with me shall prove in vain,