Page 2869 - Shakespeare - Vol. 3
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What, will he come? [5]
AEDILE
He’s coming.
BRUTUS
How accompanied?
AEDILE
With old Menenius and those senators
That always favoured him.
SICINIUS
Have you a catalogue
Of all the voices that we have procured,
Set down by th’poll?
AEDILE
I have; ’tis ready. [10]
SICINIUS
Have you collected them by tribes?
AEDILE
I have.
SICINIUS
Assemble presently the people hither.
And when they hear me say ‘It shall be so
I’th’right and strength o’th’commons’ be it either
For death, for fine, or banishment, then let them, [15]
If I say ‘Fine’, cry ‘Fine!’, if ‘Death’, cry ‘Death!’
Insisting on the old prerogative
And power i’th’truth o’th’cause.
AEDILE
I shall inform them.
