Cor. What must I do?[3295] 35
Men. Return to the tribunes.[3295]
Cor. Well, what then? what then?[3295]
Men. Repent what you have spoke.[3295]
Cor. For them! I cannot do it to the gods;[3296]
Must I then do't to them?
Vol. You are too absolute;
Though therein you can never be too noble, 40
But when extremities speak. I have heard you say,[3297]
Honour and policy, like unsever'd friends,
I' the war do grow together: grant that, and tell me,
In peace what each of them by the other lose,[3298]
That they combine not there.
Cor. Tush, tush!
Men. A good demand. 45
Vol. If it be honour in your wars to seem
The same you are not, which, for your best ends,
You adopt your policy, how is it less or worse,[3299]
That it shall hold companionship in peace
With honour, as in war, since that to both[3300] 50
It stands in like request?
Cor. Why force you this?