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<H3>SCENE III. The same. The Forum.</h3>

<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter SICINIUS and BRUTUS</i>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech1><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1>In this point charge him home, that he affects</A><br>
<A NAME=2>Tyrannical power: if he evade us there,</A><br>
<A NAME=3>Enforce him with his envy to the people,</A><br>
<A NAME=4>And that the spoil got on the Antiates</A><br>
<A NAME=5>Was ne'er distributed.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter an AEdile</i></p>
<A NAME=6>What, will he come?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech2><b>AEdile</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=7>He's coming.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech3><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=8>How accompanied?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech4><b>AEdile</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=9>With old Menenius, and those senators</A><br>
<A NAME=10>That always favour'd him.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech5><b>SICINIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=11>Have you a catalogue</A><br>
<A NAME=12>Of all the voices that we have procured</A><br>
<A NAME=13>Set down by the poll?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech6><b>AEdile</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=14>I have; 'tis ready.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech7><b>SICINIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=15>Have you collected them by tribes?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech8><b>AEdile</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=16>I have.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech9><b>SICINIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=17>Assemble presently the people hither;</A><br>
<A NAME=18>And when they bear me say 'It shall be so</A><br>
<A NAME=19>I' the right and strength o' the commons,' be it either</A><br>
<A NAME=20>For death, for fine, or banishment, then let them</A><br>
<A NAME=21>If I say fine, cry 'Fine;' if death, cry 'Death.'</A><br>
<A NAME=22>Insisting on the old prerogative</A><br>
<A NAME=23>And power i' the truth o' the cause.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech10><b>AEdile</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=24>I shall inform them.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech11><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=25>And when such time they have begun to cry,</A><br>
<A NAME=26>Let them not cease, but with a din confused</A><br>
<A NAME=27>Enforce the present execution</A><br>
<A NAME=28>Of what we chance to sentence.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech12><b>AEdile</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=29>Very well.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech13><b>SICINIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=30>Make them be strong and ready for this hint,</A><br>
<A NAME=31>When we shall hap to give 't them.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech14><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=32>Go about it.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit AEdile</i></p>
<A NAME=33>Put him to choler straight: he hath been used</A><br>
<A NAME=34>Ever to conquer, and to have his worth</A><br>
<A NAME=35>Of contradiction: being once chafed, he cannot</A><br>
<A NAME=36>Be rein'd again to temperance; then he speaks</A><br>
<A NAME=37>What's in his heart; and that is there which looks</A><br>
<A NAME=38>With us to break his neck.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech15><b>SICINIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=39>Well, here he comes.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter CORIOLANUS, MENENIUS, and COMINIUS, with Senators and Patricians</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech16><b>MENENIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=40>Calmly, I do beseech you.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech17><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=41>Ay, as an ostler, that for the poorest piece</A><br>
<A NAME=42>Will bear the knave by the volume. The honour'd gods</A><br>
<A NAME=43>Keep Rome in safety, and the chairs of justice</A><br>
<A NAME=44>Supplied with worthy men! plant love among 's!</A><br>
<A NAME=45>Throng our large temples with the shows of peace,</A><br>
<A NAME=46>And not our streets with war!</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech18><b>First Senator</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=47>Amen, amen.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech19><b>MENENIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=48>A noble wish.</A><br>
<p><i>Re-enter AEdile, with Citizens</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech20><b>SICINIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=49>Draw near, ye people.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech21><b>AEdile</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=50>List to your tribunes. Audience: peace, I say!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech22><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=51>First, hear me speak.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech23><b>Both Tribunes</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=52>Well, say. Peace, ho!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech24><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=53>Shall I be charged no further than this present?</A><br>
<A NAME=54>Must all determine here?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech25><b>SICINIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=55>I do demand,</A><br>
<A NAME=56>If you submit you to the people's voices,</A><br>
<A NAME=57>Allow their officers and are content</A><br>
<A NAME=58>To suffer lawful censure for such faults</A><br>
<A NAME=59>As shall be proved upon you?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech26><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=60>I am content.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech27><b>MENENIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=61>Lo, citizens, he says he is content:</A><br>
<A NAME=62>The warlike service he has done, consider; think</A><br>
<A NAME=63>Upon the wounds his body bears, which show</A><br>
<A NAME=64>Like graves i' the holy churchyard.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech28><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=65>Scratches with briers,</A><br>
<A NAME=66>Scars to move laughter only.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech29><b>MENENIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=67>Consider further,</A><br>
<A NAME=68>That when he speaks not like a citizen,</A><br>
<A NAME=69>You find him like a soldier: do not take</A><br>
<A NAME=70>His rougher accents for malicious sounds,</A><br>
<A NAME=71>But, as I say, such as become a soldier,</A><br>
<A NAME=72>Rather than envy you.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech30><b>COMINIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=73>Well, well, no more.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech31><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=74>What is the matter</A><br>
<A NAME=75>That being pass'd for consul with full voice,</A><br>
<A NAME=76>I am so dishonour'd that the very hour</A><br>
<A NAME=77>You take it off again?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech32><b>SICINIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=78>Answer to us.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech33><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=79>Say, then: 'tis true, I ought so.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech34><b>SICINIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=80>We charge you, that you have contrived to take</A><br>
<A NAME=81>From Rome all season'd office and to wind</A><br>
<A NAME=82>Yourself into a power tyrannical;</A><br>
<A NAME=83>For which you are a traitor to the people.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech35><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=84>How! traitor!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech36><b>MENENIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=85>                  Nay, temperately; your promise.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech37><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=86>The fires i' the lowest hell fold-in the people!</A><br>
<A NAME=87>Call me their traitor! Thou injurious tribune!</A><br>
<A NAME=88>Within thine eyes sat twenty thousand deaths,</A><br>
<A NAME=89>In thy hand clutch'd as many millions, in</A><br>
<A NAME=90>Thy lying tongue both numbers, I would say</A><br>
<A NAME=91>'Thou liest' unto thee with a voice as free</A><br>
<A NAME=92>As I do pray the gods.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech38><b>SICINIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=93>Mark you this, people?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech39><b>Citizens</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=94>To the rock, to the rock with him!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech40><b>SICINIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=95>Peace!</A><br>
<A NAME=96>We need not put new matter to his charge:</A><br>
<A NAME=97>What you have seen him do and heard him speak,</A><br>
<A NAME=98>Beating your officers, cursing yourselves,</A><br>
<A NAME=99>Opposing laws with strokes and here defying</A><br>
<A NAME=100>Those whose great power must try him; even this,</A><br>
<A NAME=101>So criminal and in such capital kind,</A><br>
<A NAME=102>Deserves the extremest death.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech41><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=103>But since he hath</A><br>
<A NAME=104>Served well for Rome,--</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech42><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=105>What do you prate of service?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech43><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=106>I talk of that, that know it.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech44><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=107>You?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech45><b>MENENIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=108>Is this the promise that you made your mother?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech46><b>COMINIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=109>Know, I pray you,--</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech47><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=110>I know no further:</A><br>
<A NAME=111>Let them pronounce the steep Tarpeian death,</A><br>
<A NAME=112>Vagabond exile, raying, pent to linger</A><br>
<A NAME=113>But with a grain a day, I would not buy</A><br>
<A NAME=114>Their mercy at the price of one fair word;</A><br>
<A NAME=115>Nor cheque my courage for what they can give,</A><br>
<A NAME=116>To have't with saying 'Good morrow.'</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech48><b>SICINIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=117>For that he has,</A><br>
<A NAME=118>As much as in him lies, from time to time</A><br>
<A NAME=119>Envied against the people, seeking means</A><br>
<A NAME=120>To pluck away their power, as now at last</A><br>
<A NAME=121>Given hostile strokes, and that not in the presence</A><br>
<A NAME=122>Of dreaded justice, but on the ministers</A><br>
<A NAME=123>That do distribute it; in the name o' the people</A><br>
<A NAME=124>And in the power of us the tribunes, we,</A><br>
<A NAME=125>Even from this instant, banish him our city,</A><br>
<A NAME=126>In peril of precipitation</A><br>
<A NAME=127>From off the rock Tarpeian never more</A><br>
<A NAME=128>To enter our Rome gates: i' the people's name,</A><br>
<A NAME=129>I say it shall be so.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech49><b>Citizens</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=130>It shall be so, it shall be so; let him away:</A><br>
<A NAME=131>He's banish'd, and it shall be so.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech50><b>COMINIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=132>Hear me, my masters, and my common friends,--</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech51><b>SICINIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=133>He's sentenced; no more hearing.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech52><b>COMINIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=134>Let me speak:</A><br>
<A NAME=135>I have been consul, and can show for Rome</A><br>
<A NAME=136>Her enemies' marks upon me. I do love</A><br>
<A NAME=137>My country's good with a respect more tender,</A><br>
<A NAME=138>More holy and profound, than mine own life,</A><br>
<A NAME=139>My dear wife's estimate, her womb's increase,</A><br>
<A NAME=140>And treasure of my loins; then if I would</A><br>
<A NAME=141>Speak that,--</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech53><b>SICINIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=142>                  We know your drift: speak what?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech54><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=143>There's no more to be said, but he is banish'd,</A><br>
<A NAME=144>As enemy to the people and his country:</A><br>
<A NAME=145>It shall be so.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech55><b>Citizens</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=146>It shall be so, it shall be so.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech56><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=147>You common cry of curs! whose breath I hate</A><br>
<A NAME=148>As reek o' the rotten fens, whose loves I prize</A><br>
<A NAME=149>As the dead carcasses of unburied men</A><br>
<A NAME=150>That do corrupt my air, I banish you;</A><br>
<A NAME=151>And here remain with your uncertainty!</A><br>
<A NAME=152>Let every feeble rumour shake your hearts!</A><br>
<A NAME=153>Your enemies, with nodding of their plumes,</A><br>
<A NAME=154>Fan you into despair! Have the power still</A><br>
<A NAME=155>To banish your defenders; till at length</A><br>
<A NAME=156>Your ignorance, which finds not till it feels,</A><br>
<A NAME=157>Making not reservation of yourselves,</A><br>
<A NAME=158>Still your own foes, deliver you as most</A><br>
<A NAME=159>Abated captives to some nation</A><br>
<A NAME=160>That won you without blows! Despising,</A><br>
<A NAME=161>For you, the city, thus I turn my back:</A><br>
<A NAME=162>There is a world elsewhere.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt CORIOLANUS, COMINIUS, MENENIUS, Senators, and Patricians</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech57><b>AEdile</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=163>The people's enemy is gone, is gone!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech58><b>Citizens</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=164>Our enemy is banish'd! he is gone! Hoo! hoo!</A><br>
<p><i>Shouting, and throwing up their caps</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech59><b>SICINIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=165>Go, see him out at gates, and follow him,</A><br>
<A NAME=166>As he hath followed you, with all despite;</A><br>
<A NAME=167>Give him deserved vexation. Let a guard</A><br>
<A NAME=168>Attend us through the city.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech60><b>Citizens</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=169>Come, come; let's see him out at gates; come.</A><br>
<A NAME=170>The gods preserve our noble tribunes! Come.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
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