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You should have ta'en th' advantage of his choler,

And pass'd him unelected.

Bru. Did you perceive

He did solicit you in free contempt

When he did need your loves, and do you think

That his contempt shall not be bruising to you

When he hath power to crush? Why, had your bodies

No heart among you? or had you tongues to cry

Against the rectorship of judgment?

Sic. Have you

Ere now denied the asker? and now again

Of him that did not ask, but mock, bestow

Your su'd-for tongues?

3. Cit. He's not confirm'd; we may deny him yet.

2. Cit. And will deny him:

I'll have five hundred voices of that sound.

1. Cit. Ay, twice five hundred and their friends to piece 'em.

Bru. Get you hence instantly, and tell those friends,

They have chose a consul that will from them take

Their liberties; make them of no more voice

Than dogs that are as often beat for barking

As therefore kept to do so.

Sic. Let them assemble;

And, on a safer judgment, all revoke

Your ignorant election. Enforce his pride,

And his old hate unto you; besides, forget not

With what contempt he wore the humble weed;

How in his suit he scorn'd you; but your loves,

Thinking upon his services, took from you

The apprehension of his present portance,

 213 rectorship: guiding power

215 Of: upon

220 piece: reinforce

226 safer: more prudent

227 Enforce: lay stress upon

232 apprehension: discernment

portance: behavior

