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sufferance is a gain to them. Let us revenge

this with our pikes, ere we become rakes: for

the gods know I speak this in hunger for bread,

not in thirst for revenge.

2. Cit. Would you proceed especially against

Caius Martius?

All. Against him first: he's a very dog to the

commonalty.

2. Cit. Consider you what services he has done

for his country?

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.

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,

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

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

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?

 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

