Bru. I talk of that, that know it.[3387]
Cor. You?[3387] 85
Men. Is this the promise that you made your mother?[3387][3388]
Com. Know, I pray you,—[3387]
Cor. I'll know no further:[3389]
Let them pronounce the steep Tarpeian death,
Vagabond exile, flaying, pent to linger[3390]
But with a grain a day, I would not buy 90
Their mercy at the price of one fair word,
Nor check my courage for what they can give,[3391]
To have't with saying 'Good morrow.'
Sic. For that he has,
As much as in him lies, from time to time
Envied against the people, seeking means[3392] 95
To pluck away their power, as now at last[3393]
Given hostile strokes, and that not in the presence[3394]
Of dreaded justice, but on the ministers[3395]
That do distribute it; in the name o' the people,[3353][3396]
And in the power of us the tribunes, we, 100
Even from this instant, banish him our city,
In peril of precipitation
From off the rock Tarpeian, never more
To enter our Rome gates: i' the people's name,[3397]
I say it shall be so. 105
Citizens. It shall be so, it shall be so; let him away:[3382]
He's banish'd, and it shall be so.[3398]
Com. Hear me, my masters, and my common friends,—[3399]
Sic. He's sentenced; no more hearing.
Com. Let me speak:
I have been consul, and can show for Rome[3400] 110
Her enemies' marks upon me. I do love
My country's good with a respect more tender,[3401]
More holy and profound, than mine own life,
My dear wife's estimate, her womb's increase[3402]
And treasure of my loins; then if I would 115
Speak that—[3403]