Marked words are the most distinguishing words of T2: rome, caesar, senate, sulla, roman, consul, brutus, romans, men, marius.
I shall anon beleeue your vultures, MARCVS.) Your wisedomes, Conscript Fathers, are able to examine, and censure these suggestions. But, were they left to our absoluing voyce, we durst pronounce them, as we thinke them, most malicious. O, he has restor'd all, list.) Yet, are they offer'd to bee auerr'd, and on the liues of the informers. What wee should say, or rather what we should not say, Lords of the Senate, if this bee true, our gods, and goddesses confound vs if we know! Only, we must thinke, we haue plac'd our benefits ill: and conclude, that, in our choise, either we were wanting to the gods, or the gods to vs. The place growes hot, they shift.) We haue not beene couetous, Honourable Fathers, to change; neither is it now, any new lust that alters our affection, or old lothing: but those needfull iealousies of state, that warne wiser princes, hourely, to prouide their safetie; and doe teach them how learned a thing it is to beware of the humblest enemy; much more of those great ones, whom their owne employ'd fauours haue made fit for their feares. Away. Sit farder. Let's remooue— Gods! how the leaues drop off, this little winde!) We therefore desire, that the offices he holds, bee first seized by the Senate; and himselfe suspended from all exercise of place, or power— How! By your leaue. Come, Porcpisce, (wher's HATERIVS? His gout keepes him most miserably constant.) Your dancing shewes a tempest. Reade no more. Lords of the Senate, hold your seates: reade on. These letters, they are forg'd. A guard, sit still. There's change. Bid silence, and reade forward. Silence— and himselfe suspended from all exercise of place, or power, but till due and mature tryall be made of his innocency, which yet we can faintly apprehend the necessitie, to doubt. If, Conscript Fathers, to your more searching wisedomes, there shall appeare farther cause (or of farder proceeding, either to seizure of lands, goods, or more—) it is not our power that shall limit your authoritie, or our fauour, that must corrupt your iustice: either were dishonourable in you, and both vncharitable to our selfe. We would willingly he present with your counsailes in this businesse, but the danger of so potent a faction (if it should proue so) forbids our attempting it: except one of the Consuls would be intreated for our safetie, to vndertake the guard of vs home, then wee should most readily aduenture. In the meane time, it shall not bee fit for vs to importune so iudicious a Senate, who know how much they hurt the innocent, that spare the guiltie: and how gratefull a sacrifice, to the gods, is the life of an ingratefull person. We reflect not, in this, on SEIANVS (notwithstanding, if you keepe an eye vpon him— and there is LATIARIS a Senator, and PINNARIVS NATTA, two of his most trusted ministers, and so profest, whom we desire not to haue apprênded) but as the necessitie of the cause exacts it.
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I shall anon beleeue your vultures, MARCVS.) Your wisedomes, Conscript Fathers, are able to examine, and censure these suggestions. But, were they left to our absoluing voyce, we durst pronounce them, as we thinke them, most malicious. O, he has restor'd all, list.) Yet, are they offer'd to bee auerr'd, and on the liues of the informers. What wee should say, or rather what we should not say, Lords of the Senate, if this bee true, our gods, and goddesses confound vs if we know! Only, we must thinke, we haue plac'd our benefits ill: and conclude, that, in our choise, either we were wanting to the gods, or the gods to vs. The place growes hot, they shift.) We haue not beene couetous, Honourable Fathers, to change; neither is it now, any new lust that alters our affection, or old lothing: but those needfull iealousies of state, that warne wiser princes, hourely, to prouide their safetie; and doe teach them how learned a thing it is to beware of the humblest enemy; much more of those great ones, whom their owne employ'd fauours haue made fit for their feares. Away. Sit farder. Let's remooue— Gods! how the leaues drop off, this little winde!) We therefore desire, that the offices he holds, bee first seized by the Senate; and himselfe suspended from all exercise of place, or power— How! By your leaue. Come, Porcpisce, (wher's HATERIVS? His gout keepes him most miserably constant.) Your dancing shewes a tempest. Reade no more. Lords of the Senate, hold your seates: reade on. These letters, they are forg'd. A guard, sit still. There's change. Bid silence, and reade forward. Silence— and himselfe suspended from all exercise of place, or power, but till due and mature tryall be made of his innocency, which yet we can faintly apprehend the necessitie, to doubt. If, Conscript Fathers, to your more searching wisedomes, there shall appeare farther cause (or of farder proceeding, either to seizure of lands, goods, or more—) it is not our power that shall limit your authoritie, or our fauour, that must corrupt your iustice: either were dishonourable in you, and both vncharitable to our selfe. We would willingly he present with your counsailes in this businesse, but the danger of so potent a faction (if it should proue so) forbids our attempting it: except one of the Consuls would be intreated for our safetie, to vndertake the guard of vs home, then wee should most readily aduenture. In the meane time, it shall not bee fit for vs to importune so iudicious a Senate, who know how much they hurt the innocent, that spare the guiltie: and how gratefull a sacrifice, to the gods, is the life of an ingratefull person. We reflect not, in this, on SEIANVS (notwithstanding, if you keepe an eye vpon him— and there is LATIARIS a Senator, and PINNARIVS NATTA, two of his most trusted ministers, and so profest, whom we desire not to haue apprênded) but as the necessitie of the cause exacts it.