_Sec. Com._ Truly, sir, all that I live by is with the awl: I[2816] meddle with no tradesman's matters, nor women's matters,[2817] but with awl. I am indeed, sir, a surgeon to old shoes; when[2818] they are in great danger, I re-cover them. As proper men as[2819] 25 ever trod upon neats-leather have gone upon my handiwork. _Flav._ But wherefore art not in thy shop to-day?[2820] Why dost thou lead these men about the streets?[2820] _Sec. Com._ Truly, sir, to wear out their shoes, to get myself into more work. But indeed, sir, we make holiday, to 30 see Cæsar and to rejoice in his triumph. _Mar._ Wherefore rejoice? What conquest brings he home?[2821] What tributaries follow him to Rome, To grace in captive bonds his chariot-wheels? You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things! 35 O you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome, Knew you not Pompey? Many a time and oft[2822] Have you climb'd up to walls and battlements,[2822] To towers and windows, yea, to chimney-tops,[2823] Your infants in your arms, and there have sat 40 The live-long day with patient expectation To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome:[2824] And when you saw his chariot but appear, Have you not made an universal shout, That Tiber trembled underneath her banks[2825] 45 To hear the replication of your sounds Made in her concave shores?[2825][2826][2827] And do you now put on your best attire?[2826] And do you now cull out a holiday?[2826][2828] And do you now strew flowers in his way[2826] 50 That comes in triumph over Pompey's blood?[2826][2829] Be gone![2826] Run to your houses, fall upon your knees, Pray to the gods to intermit the plague That needs must light on this ingratitude. 55 _Flav._ Go, go, good countrymen, and, for this fault,[2830] Assemble all the poor men of your sort; Draw them to Tiber banks and weep your tears[2831] Into the channel, till the lowest stream Do kiss the most exalted shores of all.[2832] 60 [_Exeunt all the Commoners._ See, whether their basest metal be not moved;[2833] They vanish tongue-tied in their guiltiness.[2834] Go you down that way towards the Capitol;[2835] This way will I: disrobe the images, If you do find them deck'd with ceremonies. 65 _Mar._ May we do so?[2836] You know it is the feast of Lupercal.[2836]