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  ACT II。 



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                      SCENE I。 Rome。 A public place 



     Enter   MENENIUS;   with   the   two   Tribunes   of   the   people;   SICINIUS 

and BRUTUS 

       MENENIUS。         The    augurer    tells  me   we   shall   have   news    tonight。 

BRUTUS。 Good or bad? MENENIUS。 Not according to the prayer of the 

people;   for   they   love   not   Marcius。   SICINIUS。   Nature   teaches   beasts   to 

know     their   friends。  MENENIUS。         Pray   you;   who    does   the   wolf   love? 

SICINIUS。   The   lamb。   MENENIUS。   Ay;   to   devour   him;   as   the   hungry 

plebeians   would   the   noble   Marcius。   BRUTUS。   He's   a   lamb   indeed;   that 

baas like a bear。 MENENIUS。 He's a bear indeed; that lives like a lamb。 

You   two   are   old   men;   tell   me   one   thing   that   I   shall   ask   you。   BOTH 

TRIBUNES。 Well; sir。 MENENIUS。 In what enormity is Marcius poor in 

that you two have not in abundance? BRUTUS。 He's poor in no one fault; 

but stor'd with all。 SICINIUS。 Especially in pride。 BRUTUS。 And topping 

all others in boasting。 MENENIUS。 This is strange now。 Do you two know 

how you are censured here in the city… I mean of us o' th' right…hand file? 

Do   you?   BOTH   TRIBUNES。   Why;   how   are   we   censur'd?   MENENIUS。 

Because you talk of pride now… will you not be angry? BOTH TRIBUNES。 

Well;   well;   sir;   well。   MENENIUS。   Why;   'tis   no   great   matter;   for   a   very 

little thief of occasion will rob you of a great deal of patience。 Give your 

dispositions the reins; and be angry at your pleasures… at the least; if you 

take   it   as   a   pleasure   to   you   in   being   so。   You   blame   Marcius   for   being 

proud? BRUTUS。 We do it not alone; sir。 MENENIUS。 I know you can do 

very little alone; for your helps are many; or else your actions would grow 

wondrous single: your abilities are too infant…like for doing much alone。 

You   talk   of   pride。   O   that   you   could   turn   your   eyes   toward   the   napes   of 

your necks; and make but an interior survey of your good selves! O that 

you could! BOTH TRIBUNES。 What then; sir? MENENIUS。 Why; then 

you     should    discover     a   brace    of   unmeriting;     proud;    violent;    testy 

magistrates…alias   fools…   as   any   in   Rome。   SICINIUS。   Menenius;   you   are 

known   well   enough   too。   MENENIUS。   I   am   known   to   be   a   humorous 

patrician; and one that loves a cup of hot wine with not a drop of allaying 

Tiber in't; said to be something imperfect in favouring the first complaint; 



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hasty and tinder…like upon too trivial motion; one that converses more with 

the   buttock   of   the   night   than   with   the   forehead   of   the   morning。   What   I 

think    I  utter;  and   spend   my    malice    in  my   breath。   Meeting     two    such 

wealsmen as you are… I cannot call you Lycurguses… if the drink you give 

me touch my palate adversely; I   make a crooked face at it。 I cannot   say 

your    worships     have   deliver'd   the   matter   well;   when    I  find  the  ass   in 

compound   with   the   major   part   of   your   syllables;   and   though   I   must   be 

content to bear with those that say you are reverend grave men; yet they 

lie deadly that tell you you have good faces。 If you see this in the map of 

my microcosm; follows it that I am known well enough too? What harm 

can your bisson conspectuities glean out of this character; if I be known 

well enough too? BRUTUS。 Come; sir; come; we know you well enough。 

MENENIUS。 You   know   neither   me;   yourselves;   nor   any   thing。  You   are 

ambitious for poor knaves' caps and legs; you wear out a good wholesome 

forenoon   in   hearing   a   cause   between   an   orange…wife   and   a   fosset…seller; 

and then rejourn the controversy of threepence to a second day of audience。 

When you are hearing a matter between party and party; if you chance to 

be pinch'd with the colic; you make faces like mummers; set up the bloody 

flag   against   all   patience;   and;   in   roaring   for   a   chamber…pot;   dismiss   the 

controversy bleeding; the more entangled by your hearing。 All the peace 

you make in their cause is calling both the parties knaves。 You are a pair of 

strange   ones。   BRUTUS。   Come;   come;   you   are   well   understood   to   be   a 

perfecter     giber  for   the  table  than   a  necessary   bencher      in  the  Capitol。 

MENENIUS。           Our   very    priests   must    become     mockers;     if  they   shall 

encounter such ridiculous subjects as you are。 When you speak best unto 

the purpose; it is not worth the wagging of your beards; and your beards 

deserve not so honourable a grave as to stuff a botcher's cushion or to be 

entomb'd in an ass's pack…saddle。 Yet you must be saying Marcius is proud; 

who; in a cheap estimation; is worth all your predecessors since Deucalion; 

though   peradventure   some   of   the   best   of   'em   were   hereditary   hangmen。 

God…den   to   your   worships。   More   of   your   conversation   would   infect   my 

brain; being the herdsmen of the beastly plebeians。 I will be bold to take 

my leave of you。 'BRUTUS and SICINIUS go aside' 

       Enter VOLUMNIA; VIRGILIA; and VALERIA 



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       How now; my as fair as noble ladies… and the moon; were she earthly; 

no    nobler…   whither    do   you   follow    your   eyes   so  fast?   VOLUMNIA。 

Honourable Menenius; my boy Marcius approaches; for the love of Juno; 

let's  go。   MENENIUS。         Ha!   Marcius    coming     home?    VOLUMNIA。          Ay; 

worthy   Menenius;   and   with   most   prosperous   approbation。   MENENIUS。 

Take   my   cap;   Jupiter;   and   I   thank   thee。   Hoo!   Marcius   coming   home! 

VOLUMNIA;   VIRGILIA。              Nay;   'tis  true。  VOLUMNIA。         Look;   here's  a 

letter from him; the state hath another; his wife another; and I think there's 

one   at   home   for   you。   MENENIUS。   I   will   make   my   very   house   reel   to… 

night。 A letter for me? VIRGILIA。 Yes; certain; there's a letter for you; I 

saw't。 MENENIUS。 A letter for me! It gives me an estate of seven years' 

health;    in  which    time   I  will  make    a  lip  at  the  physician。    The   most 

sovereign prescription in Galen is but empiricutic and; to this preservative; 

of no better report than a horse…drench。 Is he not wounded? He was wont 

to come home wounded。 VIRGILIA。 O; no; no; no。 VOLUMNIA。 O; he is 

wounded; I thank the gods for't。 MENENIUS。 So do I too; if it be not too 

much。     Brings     a  victory    in  his   pocket?    The    wounds     become     him。 

VOLUMNIA。 On's brows; Menenius; he comes the third time home with 

the   oaken    garland。   MENENIUS。         Has   he   disciplin'd   Aufidius   soundly? 

VOLUMNIA。 Titus Lartius writes they fought together; but Aufidius got 

off。 MENENIUS。 And 'twas time for him too; I'll warrant him that; an he 

had stay'd by him; I would not have been so fidius'd for all the chests in 

Corioli    and   the   gold   that's  in  them。   Is  the  Senate   possess'd    of  this? 

VOLUMNIA。  Good ladies;  let's   go。 Yes; yes;   yes:   the   Senate   has   letters 

from the general; wherein he gives my son the whole name of the war; he 

hath in this action outdone his former deeds doubly。 VALERIA。 In troth; 

there's   wondrous      things  spoke    of  him。   MENENIUS。         Wondrous!     Ay;   I 

warrant   you;   and   not   without   his   true   purchasing。

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