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Like graves i' the holy churchyard.

Cor. Scratches with briers,

Scars to move laughter only.

Men. Consider further,

That when he speaks not like a citizen,

You find him like a soldier: do not take

His rougher accents for malicious sounds,

But, as I say, such as become a soldier,

Rather than envy you.

Com. Well, well; no more.

Cor. What is the matter,

That being pass'd for consul with full voice

I am so dishonour'd that the very hour

You take it off again?

Sic. Answer to us.

Cor. Say, then: 'tis true, I ought so.

Sic. We charge you, that you have contriv'd to take

From Rome all season'd office, and to wind

Yourself into a power tyrannical;

For which you are a traitor to the people.

Cor. How! Traitor!

Men. Nay, temperately; your promise.

Cor. The fires i' the lowest hell fold in the people!

Call me their traitor! Thou injurious tribune!

Within thine eyes sat twenty thousand deaths,

In thy hands clutch'd as many millions, in

Thy lying tongue both numbers, I would say

'Thou liest' unto thee with a voice as free

As I do pray the gods.

Sic. Mark you this, people?

All. To the rock!—to the rock with him!

 54 accents; cf. n.

56 envy: evidence hostility to

62 contriv'd: designed

63 season'd: time-honored

67 fold in: encompass

68 injurious: insulting

69 Within: although within

