Sic. Nor I.
Bru. Let's to the Capitol: would half my wealth 160
Would buy this for a lie!
Sic. Pray, let us go. [Exeunt.[3653]
Scene VII. A camp, at a small distance from Rome.
Enter Aufidius with his Lieutenant.[3654]
Auf. Do they still fly to the Roman?
Lieu. I do not know what witchcraft's in him, but[3655]
Your soldiers use him as the grace 'fore meat,
Their talk at table and their thanks at end;
And you are darken'd in this action, sir, 5
Even by your own.
Auf. I cannot help it now,[3656]
Unless, by using means, I lame the foot[3656]
Of our design. He bears himself more proudlier,[3657]
Even to my person, than I thought he would
When first I did embrace him: yet his nature 10
In that's no changeling; and I must excuse
What cannot be amended.
Lieu. Yet I wish, sir—
I mean for your particular—you had not
Join'd in commission with him; but either[3658][3659]
Had borne the action of yourself, or else[3658][3659] 15
To him had left it solely.[3658]
Auf. I understand thee well; and be thou sure,
When he shall come to his account, he knows not
What I can urge against him. Although it seems,[3660]
And so he thinks, and is no less apparent 20
To the vulgar eye, that he bears all things fairly,
And shows good husbandry for the Volscian state,
Fights dragon-like, and does achieve as soon
As draw his sword, yet he hath left undone
That which shall break his neck or hazard mine, 25
Whene'er we come to our account.[3661]