Page 2913 - Shakespeare - Vol. 3

You know the very road into his kindness [60]
And cannot lose your way.

MENENIUS
Good faith, I’ll prove him,
Speed how it will. I shall ere long have knowledge
Of my success.

Exit.

COMINIUS
He’ll never hear him.

SICINIUS
Not?

COMINIUS
I tell you he does sit in gold, his eye
Red as ’twould burn Rome, and his injury [65]

The gaoler to his pity. I kneeled before him;
’Twas very faintly he said ‘Rise’, dismissed me
Thus with his speechless hand. What he would do
He sent in writing after me, what he would not,

Bound with an oath to yield to his conditions. [70]
So that all hope is vain
Unless his noble mother and his wife,
Who, as I hear, mean to solicit him

For mercy to his country. Therefore let’s hence,
And with our fair entreaties haste them on. [75]
Exeunt.

Scene II IT

Enter Menenius to the Watch on guard.

FIRST WATCH
Stay Whence are you?