1 A crowd of people in the street leading to the Capitol.
2 Belike they had some notice of the people, How I had moved them.
3 And leave us, Publius; lest that the people Rushing on us, should do your age some mischief.
4 The people 'twixt Philippi and this ground Do stand but in a forced affection; For they have grudg'd us contribution.'
5 Why, there was a crown offer'd him; and being offer'd him, he put it by with the back of his hand, thus; and then the people fell a-shouting.
6 If the tag-rag people did not clap him and hiss him, according as he pleased and displeased them, as they use to do the players in the theatre, I am no true man.
7 The enemy, marching along by them, By them shall make a fuller number up, Come on refresh'd, new-added, and encourag'd; From which advantage shall we cut him off If at Philippi we do face him there, These people at our back.
8 Yet stay awhile; Thou shalt not back till I have borne this corse Into the market-place: there shall I try, In my oration, how the people take The cruel issue of these bloody men; According to the which thou shalt discourse To young Octavius of the state of things.