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84  Æd. He's coming.

Bru. How accompanied?

Æd. With old Menenius, and those senators

That always favour'd him.

Sic. Have you a catalogue

Of all the voices that we have procur'd,

Set down by the poll?

Æd. I have; 'tis ready.

Sic. Have you collected them by tribes?

Æd. I have.

Sic. Assemble presently the people hither;

And when they hear me say, 'It shall be so,

I' the right and strength o' the commons,' be it either

For death, for fine, or banishment, then let them,

If I say, fine, cry 'fine,'—if death, cry 'death,'

Insisting on the old prerogative

And power i' the truth o' the cause.

Æd. I shall inform them.

Bru. And when such time they have begun to cry,

Let them not cease, but with a din confus'd

Enforce the present execution

Of what we chance to sentence.

Æd. Very well.

Sic. Make them be strong and ready for this hint,

When we shall hap to give ’t them.

Bru. Go about it.

Put him to choler straight. He hath been us'd

Ever to conquer, and to have his worth

Of contradiction: being once chaf'd, he cannot

Be rein'd again to temperance; then he speaks

 10 by the poll: by individual names

11 by tribes; cf. n.

21 present: immediate

26, 27 have contradiction: indulge his love of contradiction in full measure

