_Men._ Our very priests must become mockers, if they shall encounter such ridiculous subjects as you are. When[2810] you speak best unto the purpose, it is not worth the wagging[2810] of your beards; and your beards deserve not so honourable a grave as to stuff a botcher's cushion, or to be entombed 80 in an ass's pack-saddle. Yet you must be saying, Marcius is[2811] proud; who, in a cheap estimation, is worth all your predecessors since Deucalion; though peradventure some of the best of 'em were hereditary hangmen. God-den to your[2812] worships: more of your conversation would infect my brain, 85 being the herdsmen of the beastly plebeians: I will be bold[2813] to take my leave of you. [_Brutus and Sicinius go aside._ _Enter_ VOLUMNIA, VIRGILIA, _and_ VALERIA.[2814] How now, my as fair as noble ladies,--and the moon, were[2815] she earthly, no nobler--whither do you follow your eyes so fast? 90 _Vol._ Honourable Menenius, my boy Marcius approaches; for the love of Juno, let's go. _Men._ Ha! Marcius coming home! _Vol._ Ay, worthy Menenius; and with most prosperous approbation. 95 _Men._ Take my cap, Jupiter, and I thank thee. Hoo![2816] Marcius coming home![2817] _Vir._} Nay, 'tis true.[2818] _Val._} _Vol._ Look, here's a letter from him: the state hath another, his wife another; and, I think, there's one at home 100 for you. _Men._ I will make my very house reel to-night: a letter for me! _Vir._ Yes, certain, there's a letter for you; I saw 't. _Men._ A letter for me! it gives me an estate of seven 105 years' health; in which time I will make a lip at the physician: the most sovereign prescription in Galen is but empiricutic,[2819] and, to this preservative, of no better report than a horse-drench. Is he not wounded? he was wont to come home wounded. 110 _Vir._ O, no, no, no. _Vol._ O, he is wounded; I thank the gods for't. _Men._ So do I too, if it be not too much: brings a' victory[2820] in his pocket? the wounds become him.[2821] _Vol._ On's brows: Menenius, he comes the third time[2822] 115 home with the oaken garland. _Men._ Has he disciplined Aufidius soundly?[2823] _Vol._ Titus Lartius writes, they fought together, but Aufidius got off. _Men._ And 'twas time for him too, I'll warrant him that: 120 an he had stayed by him, I would not have been so fidiused[2824] for all the chests in Corioli, and the gold that's in them. Is the senate possessed of this?