_Bru._ Let's to the Capitol, And carry with us ears and eyes for the time, But hearts for the event.
_Enter two_ Officers, _to lay cushions_.[2902]
_First Off._ Come, come, they are almost here. How many stand for consulships?
_Sec. Off._ Three, they say: but 'tis thought of every one Coriolanus will carry it.
_First Off._ That's a brave fellow; but he's vengeance 5 proud, and loves not the common people.
_Sec. Off._ Faith, there have been many great men that have flattered the people, who ne'er loved them; and there be many that they have loved, they know not wherefore: so that, if they love they know not why, they hate upon no 10 better a ground: therefore, for Coriolanus neither to care whether they love or hate him manifests the true knowledge he has in their disposition; and out of his noble carelessness lets them plainly see 't.[2903]
_First Off._ If he did not care whether he had their love 15 or no, he waved indifferently 'twixt doing them neither good[2904] nor harm: but he seeks their hate with greater devotion than they can render it him, and leaves nothing undone that may fully discover him their opposite. Now, to seem to affect the malice and displeasure of the people is as bad 20 as that which he dislikes, to flatter them for their love.
_Sec. Off._ He hath deserved worthily of his country: and his ascent is not by such easy degrees as those who, having[2905] been supple and courteous to the people, bonneted, without[2906] any further deed to have them at all into their estimation[2906][2907] 25 and report: but he hath so planted his honours in their eyes and his actions in their hearts, that for their tongues to be silent and not confess so much, were a kind of ingrateful injury; to report otherwise were a malice that, giving itself the lie, would pluck reproof and rebuke from 30 every ear that heard it.
_First Off._ No more of him; he's a worthy man: make[2908] way, they are coming.
_A sennet. Enter, with_ Lictors _before them_, COMINIUS _the Consul_, MENENIUS, CORIOLANUS, Senators, SICINIUS _and_ BRUTUS. _The_ Senators _take their places; the_ Tribunes _take their place by themselves_. CORIOLANUS _stands_.[2909]
_Men._ Having determined of the Volsces and[2910][2911] To send for Titus Lartius, it remains,[2911] 35 As the main point of this our after-meeting, To gratify his noble service that[2912] Hath thus stood for his country: therefore, please you,[2912] Most reverend and grave elders, to desire The present consul, and last general[2913] 40 In our well-found successes, to report[2913] A little of that worthy work perform'd By Caius Marcius Coriolanus; whom[2914] We met here, both to thank and to remember[2915] With honours like himself.