Page 2849 - Shakespeare - Vol. 3

The crows to peck the eagles.

MENENIUS
Come, enough.

BRUTUS
Enough, with over measure.

CORIOLANUS
No, take more. [140]
What may be sworn by, both divine and human,
Seal what I end withal! This double worship,

Where one part does disdain with cause, the other
Insult without all reason; where gentry, title, wisdom,
Cannot conclude but by the yea and no [145]

Of general ignorance − it must omit
Real necessities, and give way the while
To unstable slightness. Purpose so barred, it follows
Nothing is done to purpose. Therefore, beseech you −
You that will be less fearful than discreet, [150]

That love the fundamental part of state
More than you doubt the change on’t, that prefer
A noble life before a long, and wish

To jump a body with a dangerous physic
That’s sure of death without it − at once pluck out [155]
The multitudinous tongue, let them not lick
The sweet which is their poison. Your dishonour
Mangles true judgement, and bereaves the state

Of that integrity which should become’t,
Not having the power to do the good it would [160]
For th’ill which doth control’t.

BRUTUS
’Has said enough.

SICINIUS

’Has spoken like a traitor and shall answer