Page 2843 - Shakespeare - Vol. 3

BRUTUS

It will be dangerous to go on. No further.

CORIOLANUS
What makes this change?

MENENIUS
The matter?

COMINIUS
Hath he not passed the noble and the common?

BRUTUS
Cominius, no.

CORIOLANUS
Have I had children’s voices? [30]

FIRST SENATOR

Tribunes, give way. He shall to th’market-place.

BRUTUS

The people are incensed against him.

SICINIUS
Stop,
Or all will fall in broil.

CORIOLANUS
Are these your herd?
Must these have voices, that can yield them now

And straight disclaim their tongues? What are your offices? [35]
You being their mouths, why rule you not their teeth?
Have you not set them on?

MENENIUS
Be calm, be calm.