sufferance is a gain to them. Let us revenge
this with our pikes, ere we become rakes: for 24
the gods know I speak this in hunger for bread,
not in thirst for revenge.
2. Cit. Would you proceed especially against
Caius Martius? 28
All. Against him first: he's a very dog to the
commonalty.
2. Cit. Consider you what services he has done
for his country? 32
1. Cit. Very well; and could be content to
give him good report for 't, but that he pays
himself with being proud.
2. Cit. Nay, but speak not maliciously. 36
1. Cit. I say unto you, what he hath done
famously, he did it to that end: though soft-
conscienced men can be content to say it was
for his country, he did it to please his mother, 40
and to be partly proud; which he is, even to the
altitude of his virtue.
2. Cit. What he cannot help in his nature, you
account a vice in him. You must in no way say 44
he is covetous.
1. Cit. If I must not, I need not be barren of
accusations: he hath faults, with surplus, to tire
in repetition. Shouts within. What shouts are 48
these? The other side o' the city is risen: why
stay we prating here? to the Capitol!
All. Come, come.
1. Cit. Soft! who comes here? 52
Enter Menenius Agrippa.
23 sufferance: suffering
36 2. Cit.; cf. n.
41 to be partly: in part in order to be
47, 48 to . . . repetition: which it would weary one to list over
