But with them change of honours.
Vol. I have liv'd 216
To see inherited my very wishes,
And the buildings of my fancy: only
There's one thing wanting, which I doubt not but
Our Rome will cast upon thee.
Cor. Know, good mother, 220
I had rather be their servant in my way
Than sway with them in theirs.
Com. On, to the Capitol!
Enter Brutus and Sicinius.
Bru. All tongues speak of him, and the bleared sights 224
Are spectacled to see him: your prattling nurse
Into a rapture lets her baby cry
While she chats him: the kitchen malkin pins
Her richest lockram 'bout her reechy neck, 228
Clambering the walls to eye him: stalls, bulks, windows
Are smother'd up, leads fill'd, and ridges hors'd
With variable complexions, all agreeing
In earnestness to see him: seld-shown flamens 232
Do press among the popular throngs, and puff
To win a vulgar station; our veil'd dames
Commit the war of white and damask in
216 change: a variety
217 inherited: realized, come into my possession
222 sway with: rule
223 S.d. Enter, etc.; cf. n.
226 rapture: fit
227 chats: gossips about
malkin: wench
228 lockram: linen cloth
reechy: dirty
229 bulks: projecting shelves outside a shop
230 leads: lead-covered roofs
ridges hors'd: roof tops bestridden
231 variable complexions: all types of people
232 seld-shown flamens: priests who seldom show themselves
233 popular throngs: crowds of rabble
234 vulgar station: place in the mob
