He dyd encorage his fellowes with wordes and deedes, crying out to them, that fortune had opened the gates of the cittie more for the followers, then for the flyers.
Compare his exhortation:
So, now the gates are ope: now prove good seconds:
’Tis for the followers fortune widens them,
Not for the fliers.
(i. iv. 43.)
When the proposal to distribute the corn is being discussed, many senators are in favour of it:
But Martius standing up on his feete, dyd somewhat sharpely take up those, who went about to gratifie the people therein, and called them people pleasers and traitours to the nobilitie.
Brutus charges him with this in the play:
When corn was given them gratis, you repined;