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1 $t Cit, And to make us no better thought of, a little help 
will serve ; for once, when we stood up about the corn, he 
himself stuck not to call us the many-headed multitude. 
II. iii. 15. 
Byu. Call’t not a plot: 
The people cry you mock’d them, and of late, 
When corn was given them gratis, you repined ; 
Scandal’d the suppliants for the people, call’d them 
Time-pleasers, flatterers, foes to nobleness. 
III. i. 41. 
Coy. Tell me of corn ! 
This was my speech, and I will speak’t again— 
Men. Not now, not now. 
1 st Sen. Not in this heat, sir, now. 
Coy. Now, as I live, I will. My nobler friends, 
I crave their pardons : 
For the mutable, rank-scented many, let them 
Regard me as I do not flatter, and 
Therein behold themselves : I say again, 
In soothing them, we nourish ’gainst our senate 
The cockle of rebellion, insolence, sedition, 
Which we ourselves have plough’d for, sow’d and scatter’d, 
By mingling them with us, the honour’d number, 
Who lack not virtue, no, nor power, but that 
Which they have given to beggars. 
III. i. 61. 
Coy. Whoever gave that counsel, to give forth 
The corn o’ the storehouse gratis, as ’twas used 
Sometime in Greece,— 
Men. Well, well, no more of that. 
Coy. Though there the people had more absolute power, 
I say, they nourish’d disobedience, fed 
The ruin of the state. 
Bvu. Why, shall the people give 
One that speaks thus their voice ? 
Coy. I’ll give my reasons, 
More worthier than their voices. They know the corn 
Was not our recompense, resting well assured 
They ne’er did service for’t: being press’d to the war, 
Even when the navel of the state was touch’d, 
They would not thread the gates. This kind of service 
Did not deserve corn gratis. Being i’ the war, 
Their mutinies and revolts, wherein they show’d 
Most valour, spoke not for them: the accusation 
Which they have often made against the senate, 
