Then, after engineering the disavowal of the elected candidate, Brutus calculates
If, as his nature is, he fall in rage
With their refusal, both observe and answer
The vantage of his anger.
(II. iii. 266.)
And here are his final instructions for the behaviour of the people at the trial:
Put him to choler straight: he hath been used
Ever to conquer, and to have his worth
Of contradiction: being once chafed, he cannot
Be rein’d again to temperance; then he speaks