Which will be fifteen mouths that do accuse me:
In every mouth there is a bloody tongue
Which will speak, although he holds his peace.
It is difficult not to bring these into connection with Antony’s words:
Over thy wounds now do I prophesy——
Which like dumb mouths do ope their ruby lips
To beg the voice and utterance of my tongue.
(III. i. 259.)
And again:
I tell you that which you yourselves do know,