_Cor._ The fires i' the lowest hell fold-in the people![3378] Call me their traitor! Thou injurious tribune! Within thine eyes sat twenty thousand deaths,[3379] 70 In thy hands clutch'd as many millions, in[3379] Thy lying tongue both numbers, I would say[3380] 'Thou liest' unto thee with a voice as free As I do pray the gods. _Sic._ Mark you this, people?[3381] _Citizens._ To the rock, to the rock with him![3382][3383] _Sic._ Peace! 75 We need not put new matter to his charge: What you have seen him do and heard him speak, Beating your officers, cursing yourselves, Opposing laws with strokes, and here defying Those whose great power must try him; even this,[3384] 80 So criminal and in such capital kind,[3384] Deserves the extremest death. _Bru._ But since he hath[3385] Served well for Rome--[3385][3386] _Cor._ What do you prate of service? _Bru._ I talk of that, that know it.[3387] _Cor._ You?[3387] 85 _Men._ Is this the promise that you made your mother?[3387][3388] _Com._ Know, I pray you,--[3387] _Cor._ I'll know no further:[3389] Let them pronounce the steep Tarpeian death, Vagabond exile, flaying, pent to linger[3390] But with a grain a day, I would not buy 90 Their mercy at the price of one fair word, Nor check my courage for what they can give,[3391] To have't with saying 'Good morrow.' _Sic._ For that he has, As much as in him lies, from time to time Envied against the people, seeking means[3392] 95 To pluck away their power, as now at last[3393] Given hostile strokes, and that not in the presence[3394] Of dreaded justice, but on the ministers[3395] That do distribute it; in the name o' the people,[3353][3396] And in the power of us the tribunes, we, 100 Even from this instant, banish him our city, In peril of precipitation From off the rock Tarpeian, never more To enter our Rome gates: i' the people's name,[3397] I say it shall be so. 105 _Citizens._ It shall be so, it shall be so; let him away:[3382] He's banish'd, and it shall be so.[3398] _Com._ Hear me, my masters, and my common friends,--[3399] _Sic._ He's sentenced; no more hearing.