Cor. No, take more: 140
What may be sworn by, both divine and human,[3168]
Seal what I end withal! This double worship,
Where one part does disdain with cause, the other[3169]
Insult without all reason; where gentry, title, wisdom,[3170]
Cannot conclude but by the yea and no 145
Of general ignorance,—it must omit[3171]
Real necessities, and give way the while
To unstable slightness: purpose so barr'd, it follows,[3172][3173]
Nothing is done to purpose. Therefore, beseech you,—[3173]
You that will be less fearful than discreet; 150
That love the fundamental part of state
More than you doubt the change on 't; that prefer[3174]
A noble life before a long, and wish
To jump a body with a dangerous physic[3175]
That's sure of death without it,—at once pluck out[3176] 155
The multitudinous tongue; let them not lick
The sweet which is their poison. Your dishonour
Mangles true judgement and bereaves the state
Of that integrity which should become 't;[3177]
Not having the power to do the good it would, 160
For the ill which doth control 't.
Bru. Has said enough.[3178]
Sic. Has spoken like a traitor, and shall answer[3179]
As traitors do.
Cor. Thou wretch, despite o'erwhelm thee!
What should the people do with these bald tribunes? 165
On whom depending, their obedience fails
To the greater bench: in a rebellion,[3180]
When what's not meet, but what must be, was law,[3181]
Then were they chosen: in a better hour,
Let what is meet be said it must be meet,[3182] 170
And throw their power i' the dust.
Sic. This a consul? no.
Bru. The ædiles, ho!
Enter an Ædile.[3183]
Let him be apprehended.
Sic. Go, call the people: [Exit Ædile] in whose name myself[3184]
Attach thee as a traitorous innovator, 175
A foe to the public weal: obey, I charge thee,
And follow to thine answer.