(iII. i. 91.)
By Jove himself!
It makes the consuls base.
(iII. i. 107.)
The result must be division and altercation with all the resulting anarchy.
The state [of the cittie] as it standeth, is not now as it was wont to be, but becommeth dismembred in two factions, which mainteines allwayes civill dissention and discorde betwene us, and will never suffer us againe to be united into one bodie.
Here, too, with some variation in the wording Shakespeare keeps close to the sense.
My soul aches
To know, when two authorities are up,
Neither supreme, how soon confusion