Counsel o’ the war.

(V. vi. 91.)

It is the opinion of the First Lord, despite his impartiality and his sympathy with Marcius:

There to end

Where he was to begin, and give away

The benefit of our levies, answering us

With our own charge; making a treaty where

There was a yielding,—this admits no excuse,

(V. vi. 65.)

Thus both his native and his adopted country have reason to complain. He remains a traitor to the one, while yet he breaks faith with the other.