To be its own protection.

Agr.Are you that fool?

Br. I would none doubted it.

Agr.Can it be possible

That thou, who in thy veins hast the best blood

Of Rome, should’st own so beggarly a spirit,

And being the heir of all the world should’st wish

Only to hide thy claim, so thou may’st live

The life which broken-hearted slaves, and men

Diseased and aged scarce prize?