_Omn._ Let him hold forth, let him hold forth.
_Mel._ To promote sedition is my business: It has been so before any
of you were born, and will be so, when you are all dead and damned; I
have led on the rabble in all ages.
_1 Cit._ That's a lie, and a loud one.
_2 Cit._ He has led the rabble both old and young, that's all ages: A
heavenly sweet man, I warrant him; I have seen him somewhere in a
pulpit.
_Mel._ I have sown rebellion every where.
_1 Cit._ How, every where? That's another lie: How far have you
travelled, friend?
_Mel._ Over all the world.
_1 Cit._ Now, that's a rapper.
_2 Cit._ I say no: For, look you, gentlemen, if he has been a
traveller, he certainly says true, for he may lie by authority.
_Mel._ That the rabble may depose their prince, has in all times, and
in all countries, been accounted lawful.
_1 Cit._ That's the first true syllable he has uttered: but as how,
and whereby, and when, may they depose him?
_Mel._ Whenever they have more power to depose, than he has to oppose;
and this they may do upon the least occasion.
_1 Cit._ Sirrah, you mince the matter; you should say, we may do it
upon no occasion, for the less the better.
_Mel._ [_Aside._] Here's a rogue now, will out-shoot the devil in his
own bow.
_2 Cit._ Some occasion, in my mind, were not amiss: for, look you,
gentlemen, if we have no occasion, then whereby we have no occasion to
depose him; and therefore, either religion or liberty, I stick to
those occasions; for when they are gone, good night to godliness and
freedom.
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