Lieu. Sir, I beseech you, think you he'll carry Rome?[3661][3662]
Auf. All places yield to him ere he sits down;[3663]
And the nobility of Rome are his:
The senators and patricians love him too:[3664] 30
The tribunes are no soldiers; and their people
Will be as rash in the repeal, as hasty
To expel him thence. I think he'll be to Rome
As is the osprey to the fish, who takes it[3665]
By sovereignty of nature. First he was 35
A noble servant to them; but he could not
Carry his honours even: whether 'twas pride,[3666]
Which out of daily fortune ever taints
The happy man; whether defect of judgement,[3667]
To fail in the disposing of those chances 40
Which he was lord of; or whether nature,[3668][3669]
Not to be other than one thing, not moving[3669]
From the casque to the cushion, but commanding peace[3670]
Even with the same austerity and garb
As he controll'd the war; but one of these— 45
As he hath spices of them all, not all,[3671][3672]
For I dare so far free him—made him fear'd,[3671]
So hated, and so banish'd: but he has a merit,[3673]
To choke it in the utterance. So our virtues[3674]
Lie in the interpretation of the time;[3675] 50
And power, unto itself most commendable,
Hath not a tomb so evident as a chair[3676]
To extol what it hath done.
One fire drives out one fire; one nail, one nail;
Rights by rights fouler, strengths by strengths do fail.[3677] 55
Come, let's away. When, Caius, Rome is thine,
Thou art poor'st of all; then shortly art thou mine. [Exeunt.[3678]
FOOTNOTES:
[3414] Act iv. Scene i.] Rowe. Actus Quartus. Ff.
Rome. Before ...] Malone. Without the walls of Rome. Rowe. The Gates of Rome. Pope. Before the gates of Rome. Theobald.
Enter ... with the young Nobility of Rome.] Ff. Enter ... Senators and Patricians. Capell.
[3415] extremity was] F3 F4. extreamity was F2. extreamities was F1. extremities were Malone.
[3416] chances common] F4. chances, common F2 F3. chances. Common F1.
[3417] fortune's blows ... craves] fortune bows When most struck home; being gentle, wounded, craves Staunton conj. (withdrawn). that fortune's blows ... craves Keightley.
[3418] struck] F4. strooke F1 F2. strook F3.