[Enter seven or eight Citizens] - First Citizen. Once, if he do
require our voices, we ought not to deny him. - Third Citizen.
We have power in ourselves to do it, but it is a power that we
have no power to do; for if he show us his wounds and tell us
his deeds, we are to put our tongues into those wounds and speak
for them; so, if he tell us his noble deeds, we must also tell
him our noble acceptance of them. Ingratitude is monstrous, and
for the multitude to be ingrateful, were to make a monster of
the multitude: of the which we being members, should bring
ourselves to be - First Citizen. And to make us no better
thought of, a little help will serve; for once we stood up about
the corn, he himself stuck not to call us the many-headed
multitude. - Third Citizen. We have been called so of many; not
that our heads are some brown, some black, some auburn, some
bald, but that our wits are so diversely coloured: and truly I
think if all our wits were to issue out of one skull, they would
fly east, west, north, so