I say, they nourished disobedience, fed
The ruin of the state.
(iII. i. 113.)
That being so, he regards it as a kind of treason to the constitution to pay court to the plebs, or let it have a share of the government.
He sayed they nourished against them selves, the naughty seede and cockle of insolencie and sedition, which had bene sowed and scattered abroade emongest the people, whom they should have cut of, if they had bene wise, and have prevented their greatnes.
This is only a little more explicit in Shakespeare:
I say again,
In soothing them, we nourish ’gainst our senate
The cockle of rebellion, insolence, sedition,
Which we ourselves have plough’d for, sow’d, and scatter’d,