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No, alas, it was only a silly, ridiculous story, told by Menenius Agrippa, how the other members of the body quarrelled with the belly, resolving no longer to continue her drudging caterers, till by the penance they thought thus in revenge to impose, they soon found their own strength so far diminished, that paying the cost of experiencing a mistake, they willingly returned to their respective duties.
And they condemned Titus Menenius the prætor, it was in his year that the disaster took place, when he was later accused before the people of not having assisted the unfortunates and of having been subsequently defeated in battle.
The other side o' the city is risen. Why stay we prating here? To the Capitol! Cit. Come, come. First Cit. Soft; who comes here? Second Cit. Worthy Menenius Agrippa, one that hath always loved the people. First Cit. Men. What work's, my countrymen, in hand? Where go you, With bats and clubs? The matter? Speak, I pray you. First Cit.
The same year dies Agrippa Menenius, a man during all his life equally a favourite with the senators and commons, still more endeared to the commons after the secession. To this man, the mediator and umpire in restoring concord among his countrymen, the ambassador of the senators to the commons, the person who brought back the commons to the city, were wanting the expenses of his funeral.
The following year, Agrippa Menenius and Publius Postumius being consuls, Publius Valerius, by universal consent the ablest man in Rome, in the arts both of peace and war, died covered with glory, but in such straitened private circumstances that there was not enough to defray the expenses of a public funeral: one was given him at the public charge.
Menenius. Brings a victory in his pocket. Volumnia. On's brows Menenius. He surprises the mother counting up the cicatrices.
But in the two pieces, Aesop in the City, and Aesop at Court, the fables which are tacked to every important scene are drowned in diffuse morals; besides, they are quite distinct from the dialogue, instead of being interwoven with it, like the fable of Menenius Agrippa in Shakespeare; and modern manners do not suit with this childish mode of instruction.
Dennis is offended, that Menenius, a senator of Rome, should play the buffoon; and Voltaire perhaps thinks decency violated when the Danish Usurper is represented as a drunkard. But Shakespeare always makes nature predominate over accident; and if he preserves the essential character, is not very careful of distinctions superinduced and adventitious.
Q. Considius and T. Genucius, the proposers of the agrarian law, appoint a day of trial for T. Menenius: the loss of the fort of Cremera, whilst the consul had his standing camp at no great distance from thence, was the charge against him.
So do I, too, if it be not too much: Brings a victory in his pocket: The wounds become him. Vol. On's brow, Menenius: he comes the third time home with the oaken garland. Men.... Is the senate possessed of this? Vol. Good ladies, let's go! Yes, yes, yes: the senate has letters from the general, wherein he gives my son the whole name of the war. Valeria.
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