Page 2904 - Shakespeare - Vol. 3
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MENENIUS
You have made good work,
You and your apron-men, you that stood so much
Upon the voice of occupation and
The breath of garlic-eaters!
COMINIUS
He’ll shake your Rome about your ears. [100]
MENENIUS
As Hercules did shake down mellow fruit.
You have made fair work!
BRUTUS
But is this true, sir?
COMINIUS
Ay, and you’ll look pale
Before you find it other. All the regions
Do smilingly revolt, and who resists [105]
Are mocked for valiant ignorance
And perish constant fools. Who is’t can blame him?
Your enemies and his find something in him.
MENENIUS
We are all undone unless
The noble man have mercy.
COMINIUS
Who shall ask it? [110]
The Tribunes cannot do’t for shame; the people
Deserve such pity of him as the wolf
Does of the shepherds. For his best friends, if they
Should say ‘Be good to Rome’, they charged him even
As those should do that had deserved his hate, [115]
And therein showed like enemies.
