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SICINIUS

One thus descended,
That hath beside well in his person wrought [245]
To be set high in place, we did commend

To your remembrances. But you have found,
Scaling his present bearing with his past,
That he’s your fixèd enemy, and revoke
Your sudden approbation.

BRUTUS
Say you ne’er had done’t − [250]

Harp on that still − but by our putting on.
And presently, when you have drawn your number,
Repair to th’Capitol.

ALL
We will so. Almost all

Repent in their election.
Exeunt Plebeians.

BRUTUS
Let them go on.
This mutiny were better put in hazard [255]
Than stay, past doubt, for greater.

If, as his nature is, he fall in rage
With their refusal, both observe and answer
The vantage of his anger.

SICINIUS
To th’Capitol, come.

We will be there before the stream o’th’people; [260]
And this shall seem, as partly ’tis, their own,
Which we have goaded onward.
Exeunt.