Read the excerpt. Then answer the question that follows. O you hard hearts, you cruel men of rome, knew you not pompey? many a time and oft have you climbed up to walls and battlements, to towers and windows, yea, to chimney tops, your infants in your arms, and there have sat the livelong day, with patient expectation, to see great pompey pass the streets of rome. How do these lines by marullus characterize the people of rome?.