Scene I. Rome. A public place.

Enter Menenius, with the two Tribunes of the people, Sicinius, and Brutus.[2784]

Men. The augurer tells me we shall have news to-night.[2785]

Bru. Good or bad?

Men. Not according to the prayer of the people, for
they love not Marcius.

Sic. Nature teaches beasts to know their friends. 5

Men. Pray you, who does the wolf love?[2786]

Sic. The lamb.

Men. Ay, to devour him; as the hungry plebeians would
the noble Marcius.

Bru. He's a lamb indeed, that baes like a bear. 10