SECOND CITIZEN.
Would you proceed especially against Caius Martius?
FIRST CITIZEN.
Against him first. He’s a very dog to the commonalty.
SECOND CITIZEN.
Consider you what services he has done for his country?
FIRST CITIZEN.
Very well, and could be content to give him good report for’t, but that he pays himself with being proud.
SECOND CITIZEN.
Nay, but speak not maliciously.
FIRST CITIZEN.
I say unto you, what he hath done famously he did it to that end. Though soft-conscienced men can be content to say it was for his country, he did it to please his mother and to be partly proud, which he is, even to the altitude of his virtue.
SECOND CITIZEN.
What he cannot help in his nature you account a vice in him. You must in no way say he is covetous.
FIRST CITIZEN.
If I must not, I need not be barren of accusations. He hath faults, with surplus, to tire in repetition. [Shouts within.] What shouts are these? The other side o’ th’ city is risen. Why stay we prating here? To th’ Capitol!
ALL.
Come, come!
Enter Menenius Agrippa.