Bru. The present wars devour him: he is grown[2561]
Too proud to be so valiant.[2562]
Sic. Such a nature,[2563]
Tickled with good success, disdains the shadow[2563]
Which he treads on at noon: but I do wonder[2563]
His insolence can brook to be commanded[2563] 255
Under Cominius.[2563]
Bru. Fame, at the which he aims,[2564]
In whom already he's well graced, can not[2565]
Better be held, nor more attain'd, than by[2566]
A place below the first: for what miscarries
Shall be the general's fault, though he perform 260
To the utmost of a man; and giddy censure
Will then cry out of Marcius 'O, if he[2567]
Had borne the business!'
Sic. Besides, if things go well,
Opinion, that so sticks on Marcius, shall
Of his demerits rob Cominius.[2568]
Bru. Come:[2569] 265
Half all Cominius' honours are to Marcius,[2569][2570]
Though Marcius earn'd them not; and all his faults[2571]
To Marcius shall be honours, though indeed
In aught he merit not.
Sic. Let's hence, and hear
How the dispatch is made; and in what fashion, 270
More than his singularity, he goes[2572]
Upon this present action.
Bru. Let's along. [Exeunt.
Scene II. Corioli. The Senate-House.
Enter Tullus Aufidius, with Senators of Corioli.[2573]
First Sen. So, your opinion is, Aufidius,
That they of Rome are enter'd in our counsels,
And know how we proceed.