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| <H3>ACT I</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. Rome. A street.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter a company of mutinous Citizens, with staves, clubs, and other weapons</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>First Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.1>Before we proceed any further, hear me speak.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>All</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.2>Speak, speak.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>First Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.3>You are all resolved rather to die than to famish?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>All</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.4>Resolved. resolved.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>First Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.5>First, you know Caius Marcius is chief enemy to the people.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>All</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.6>We know't, we know't.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>First Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.7>Let us kill him, and we'll have corn at our own price.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.8>Is't a verdict?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>All</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.9>No more talking on't; let it be done: away, away!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>Second Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.10>One word, good citizens.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>First Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.11>We are accounted poor citizens, the patricians good.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.12>What authority surfeits on would relieve us: if they</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.13>would yield us but the superfluity, while it were</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.14>wholesome, we might guess they relieved us humanely;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.15>but they think we are too dear: the leanness that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.16>afflicts us, the object of our misery, is as an</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.17>inventory to particularise their abundance; our</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.18>sufferance is a gain to them Let us revenge this with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.19>our pikes, ere we become rakes: for the gods know I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.20>speak this in hunger for bread, not in thirst for revenge.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>Second Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.21>Would you proceed especially against Caius Marcius?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>All</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.22>Against him first: he's a very dog to the commonalty.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>Second Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.23>Consider you what services he has done for his country?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>First Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.24>Very well; and could be content to give him good</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.25>report fort, but that he pays himself with being proud.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>Second Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.26>Nay, but speak not maliciously.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>First Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.27>I say unto you, what he hath done famously, he did</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.28>it to that end: though soft-conscienced men can be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.29>content to say it was for his country he did it to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.30>please his mother and to be partly proud; which he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.31>is, even till the altitude of his virtue.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>Second Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.32>What he cannot help in his nature, you account a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.33>vice in him. You must in no way say he is covetous.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>First Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.34>If I must not, I need not be barren of accusations;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.35>he hath faults, with surplus, to tire in repetition.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Shouts within</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.36>What shouts are these? The other side o' the city</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.37>is risen: why stay we prating here? to the Capitol!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>All</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.38>Come, come.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>First Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.39>Soft! who comes here?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter MENENIUS AGRIPPA</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>Second Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.40>Worthy Menenius Agrippa; one that hath always loved</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.41>the people.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>First Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.42>He's one honest enough: would all the rest were so!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.43>What work's, my countrymen, in hand? where go you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.44>With bats and clubs? The matter? speak, I pray you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>First Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.45>Our business is not unknown to the senate; they have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.46>had inkling this fortnight what we intend to do,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.47>which now we'll show 'em in deeds. They say poor</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.48>suitors have strong breaths: they shall know we</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.49>have strong arms too.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.50>Why, masters, my good friends, mine honest neighbours,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.51>Will you undo yourselves?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>First Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.52>We cannot, sir, we are undone already.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.53>I tell you, friends, most charitable care</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.54>Have the patricians of you. For your wants,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.55>Your suffering in this dearth, you may as well</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.56>Strike at the heaven with your staves as lift them</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.57>Against the Roman state, whose course will on</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.58>The way it takes, cracking ten thousand curbs</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.59>Of more strong link asunder than can ever</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.60>Appear in your impediment. For the dearth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.61>The gods, not the patricians, make it, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.62>Your knees to them, not arms, must help. Alack,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.63>You are transported by calamity</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.64>Thither where more attends you, and you slander</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.65>The helms o' the state, who care for you like fathers,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.66>When you curse them as enemies.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>First Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.67>Care for us! True, indeed! They ne'er cared for us</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.68>yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.69>crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.70>support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.71>established against the rich, and provide more</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.72>piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.73>the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.74>there's all the love they bear us.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.75>Either you must</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.76>Confess yourselves wondrous malicious,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.77>Or be accused of folly. I shall tell you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.78>A pretty tale: it may be you have heard it;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.79>But, since it serves my purpose, I will venture</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.80>To stale 't a little more.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>First Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.81>Well, I'll hear it, sir: yet you must not think to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.82>fob off our disgrace with a tale: but, an 't please</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.83>you, deliver.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.84>There was a time when all the body's members</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.85>Rebell'd against the belly, thus accused it:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.86>That only like a gulf it did remain</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.87>I' the midst o' the body, idle and unactive,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.88>Still cupboarding the viand, never bearing</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.89>Like labour with the rest, where the other instruments</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.90>Did see and hear, devise, instruct, walk, feel,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.91>And, mutually participate, did minister</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.92>Unto the appetite and affection common</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.93>Of the whole body. The belly answer'd--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>First Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.94>Well, sir, what answer made the belly?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.95>Sir, I shall tell you. With a kind of smile,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.96>Which ne'er came from the lungs, but even thus--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.97>For, look you, I may make the belly smile</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.98>As well as speak--it tauntingly replied</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.99>To the discontented members, the mutinous parts</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.100>That envied his receipt; even so most fitly</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.101>As you malign our senators for that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.102>They are not such as you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>First Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.103>Your belly's answer? What!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.104>The kingly-crowned head, the vigilant eye,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.105>The counsellor heart, the arm our soldier,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.106>Our steed the leg, the tongue our trumpeter.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.107>With other muniments and petty helps</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.108>In this our fabric, if that they--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.109>What then?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.110>'Fore me, this fellow speaks! What then? what then?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>First Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.111>Should by the cormorant belly be restrain'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.112>Who is the sink o' the body,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.113>Well, what then?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>First Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.114>The former agents, if they did complain,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.115>What could the belly answer?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.116>I will tell you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.117>If you'll bestow a small--of what you have little--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.118>Patience awhile, you'll hear the belly's answer.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>First Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.119>Ye're long about it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.120>Note me this, good friend;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.121>Your most grave belly was deliberate,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.122>Not rash like his accusers, and thus answer'd:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.123>'True is it, my incorporate friends,' quoth he,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.124>'That I receive the general food at first,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.125>Which you do live upon; and fit it is,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.126>Because I am the store-house and the shop</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.127>Of the whole body: but, if you do remember,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.128>I send it through the rivers of your blood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.129>Even to the court, the heart, to the seat o' the brain;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.130>And, through the cranks and offices of man,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.131>The strongest nerves and small inferior veins</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.132>From me receive that natural competency</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.133>Whereby they live: and though that all at once,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.134>You, my good friends,'--this says the belly, mark me,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>First Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.135>Ay, sir; well, well.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.136>'Though all at once cannot</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.137>See what I do deliver out to each,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.138>Yet I can make my audit up, that all</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.139>From me do back receive the flour of all,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.140>And leave me but the bran.' What say you to't?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>First Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.141>It was an answer: how apply you this?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.142>The senators of Rome are this good belly,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.143>And you the mutinous members; for examine</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.144>Their counsels and their cares, digest things rightly</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.145>Touching the weal o' the common, you shall find</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.146>No public benefit which you receive</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.147>But it proceeds or comes from them to you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.148>And no way from yourselves. What do you think,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.149>You, the great toe of this assembly?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>First Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.150>I the great toe! why the great toe?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.151>For that, being one o' the lowest, basest, poorest,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.152>Of this most wise rebellion, thou go'st foremost:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.153>Thou rascal, that art worst in blood to run,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.154>Lead'st first to win some vantage.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.155>But make you ready your stiff bats and clubs:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.156>Rome and her rats are at the point of battle;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.157>The one side must have bale.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter CAIUS MARCIUS</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.158>Hail, noble Marcius!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>MARCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.159>Thanks. What's the matter, you dissentious rogues,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.160>That, rubbing the poor itch of your opinion,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.161>Make yourselves scabs?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>First Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.162>We have ever your good word.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>MARCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.163>He that will give good words to thee will flatter</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.164>Beneath abhorring. What would you have, you curs,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.165>That like nor peace nor war? the one affrights you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.166>The other makes you proud. He that trusts to you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.167>Where he should find you lions, finds you hares;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.168>Where foxes, geese: you are no surer, no,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.169>Than is the coal of fire upon the ice,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.170>Or hailstone in the sun. Your virtue is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.171>To make him worthy whose offence subdues him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.172>And curse that justice did it.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.173>Who deserves greatness</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.174>Deserves your hate; and your affections are</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.175>A sick man's appetite, who desires most that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.176>Which would increase his evil. He that depends</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.177>Upon your favours swims with fins of lead</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.178>And hews down oaks with rushes. Hang ye! Trust Ye?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.179>With every minute you do change a mind,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.180>And call him noble that was now your hate,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.181>Him vile that was your garland. What's the matter,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.182>That in these several places of the city</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.183>You cry against the noble senate, who,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.184>Under the gods, keep you in awe, which else</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.185>Would feed on one another? What's their seeking?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.186>For corn at their own rates; whereof, they say,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.187>The city is well stored.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>MARCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.188>Hang 'em! They say!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.189>They'll sit by the fire, and presume to know</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.190>What's done i' the Capitol; who's like to rise,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.191>Who thrives and who declines; side factions</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.192>and give out</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.193>Conjectural marriages; making parties strong</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.194>And feebling such as stand not in their liking</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.195>Below their cobbled shoes. They say there's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.196>grain enough!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.197>Would the nobility lay aside their ruth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.198>And let me use my sword, I'll make a quarry</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.199>With thousands of these quarter'd slaves, as high</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.200>As I could pick my lance.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.201>Nay, these are almost thoroughly persuaded;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.202>For though abundantly they lack discretion,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.203>Yet are they passing cowardly. But, I beseech you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.204>What says the other troop?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>MARCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.205>They are dissolved: hang 'em!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.206>They said they were an-hungry; sigh'd forth proverbs,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.207>That hunger broke stone walls, that dogs must eat,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.208>That meat was made for mouths, that the gods sent not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.209>Corn for the rich men only: with these shreds</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.210>They vented their complainings; which being answer'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.211>And a petition granted them, a strange one--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.212>To break the heart of generosity,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.213>And make bold power look pale--they threw their caps</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.214>As they would hang them on the horns o' the moon,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.215>Shouting their emulation.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.216>What is granted them?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>MARCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.217>Five tribunes to defend their vulgar wisdoms,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.218>Of their own choice: one's Junius Brutus,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.219>Sicinius Velutus, and I know not--'Sdeath!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.220>The rabble should have first unroof'd the city,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.221>Ere so prevail'd with me: it will in time</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.222>Win upon power and throw forth greater themes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.223>For insurrection's arguing.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.224>This is strange.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>MARCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.225>Go, get you home, you fragments!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter a Messenger, hastily</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.226>Where's Caius Marcius?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>MARCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.227>Here: what's the matter?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech61><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.228>The news is, sir, the Volsces are in arms.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech62><b>MARCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.229>I am glad on 't: then we shall ha' means to vent</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.230>Our musty superfluity. See, our best elders.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter COMINIUS, TITUS LARTIUS, and other Senators; JUNIUS BRUTUS and SICINIUS VELUTUS</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech63><b>First Senator</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.231>Marcius, 'tis true that you have lately told us;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.232>The Volsces are in arms.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech64><b>MARCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.233>They have a leader,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.234>Tullus Aufidius, that will put you to 't.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.235>I sin in envying his nobility,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.236>And were I any thing but what I am,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.237>I would wish me only he.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech65><b>COMINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.238>You have fought together.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech66><b>MARCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.239>Were half to half the world by the ears and he.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.240>Upon my party, I'ld revolt to make</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.241>Only my wars with him: he is a lion</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.242>That I am proud to hunt.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech67><b>First Senator</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.243>Then, worthy Marcius,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.244>Attend upon Cominius to these wars.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech68><b>COMINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.245>It is your former promise.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech69><b>MARCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.246>Sir, it is;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.247>And I am constant. Titus Lartius, thou</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.248>Shalt see me once more strike at Tullus' face.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.249>What, art thou stiff? stand'st out?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech70><b>TITUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.250>No, Caius Marcius;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.251>I'll lean upon one crutch and fight with t'other,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.252>Ere stay behind this business.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech71><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.253>O, true-bred!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech72><b>First Senator</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.254>Your company to the Capitol; where, I know,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.255>Our greatest friends attend us.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech73><b>TITUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.256>[To COMINIUS] Lead you on.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To MARCIUS</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.257>Right worthy you priority.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech74><b>COMINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.258>Noble Marcius!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech75><b>First Senator</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.259>[To the Citizens] Hence to your homes; be gone!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech76><b>MARCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.260>Nay, let them follow:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.261>The Volsces have much corn; take these rats thither</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.262>To gnaw their garners. Worshipful mutiners,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.263>Your valour puts well forth: pray, follow.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Citizens steal away. Exeunt all but SICINIUS and BRUTUS</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech77><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.264>Was ever man so proud as is this Marcius?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech78><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.265>He has no equal.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech79><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.266>When we were chosen tribunes for the people,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech80><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.267>Mark'd you his lip and eyes?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech81><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.268>Nay. but his taunts.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech82><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.269>Being moved, he will not spare to gird the gods.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech83><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.270>Be-mock the modest moon.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech84><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.271>The present wars devour him: he is grown</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.272>Too proud to be so valiant.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech85><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.273>Such a nature,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.274>Tickled with good success, disdains the shadow</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.275>Which he treads on at noon: but I do wonder</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.276>His insolence can brook to be commanded</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.277>Under Cominius.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech86><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.278>Fame, at the which he aims,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.279>In whom already he's well graced, can not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.280>Better be held nor more attain'd than by</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.281>A place below the first: for what miscarries</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.282>Shall be the general's fault, though he perform</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.283>To the utmost of a man, and giddy censure</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.284>Will then cry out of Marcius 'O if he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.285>Had borne the business!'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech87><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.286>Besides, if things go well,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.287>Opinion that so sticks on Marcius shall</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.288>Of his demerits rob Cominius.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech88><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.289>Come:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.290>Half all Cominius' honours are to Marcius.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.291>Though Marcius earned them not, and all his faults</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.292>To Marcius shall be honours, though indeed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.293>In aught he merit not.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech89><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.294>Let's hence, and hear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.295>How the dispatch is made, and in what fashion,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.296>More than his singularity, he goes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.297>Upon this present action.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech90><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.298>Lets along.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE II. Corioli. The Senate-house.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter TULLUS AUFIDIUS and certain Senators</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>First Senator</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.1>So, your opinion is, Aufidius,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.2>That they of Rome are entered in our counsels</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.3>And know how we proceed.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>AUFIDIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.4>Is it not yours?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.5>What ever have been thought on in this state,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.6>That could be brought to bodily act ere Rome</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.7>Had circumvention? 'Tis not four days gone</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.8>Since I heard thence; these are the words: I think</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.9>I have the letter here; yes, here it is.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Reads</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.10>'They have press'd a power, but it is not known</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.11>Whether for east or west: the dearth is great;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.12>The people mutinous; and it is rumour'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.13>Cominius, Marcius your old enemy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.14>Who is of Rome worse hated than of you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.15>And Titus Lartius, a most valiant Roman,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.16>These three lead on this preparation</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.17>Whither 'tis bent: most likely 'tis for you:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.18>Consider of it.'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>First Senator</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.19> Our army's in the field</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.20>We never yet made doubt but Rome was ready</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.21>To answer us.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>AUFIDIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.22> Nor did you think it folly</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.23>To keep your great pretences veil'd till when</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.24>They needs must show themselves; which</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.25>in the hatching,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.26>It seem'd, appear'd to Rome. By the discovery.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.27>We shall be shorten'd in our aim, which was</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.28>To take in many towns ere almost Rome</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.29>Should know we were afoot.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>Second Senator</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.30>Noble Aufidius,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.31>Take your commission; hie you to your bands:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.32>Let us alone to guard Corioli:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.33>If they set down before 's, for the remove</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.34>Bring your army; but, I think, you'll find</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.35>They've not prepared for us.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>AUFIDIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.36>O, doubt not that;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.37>I speak from certainties. Nay, more,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.38>Some parcels of their power are forth already,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.39>And only hitherward. I leave your honours.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.40>If we and Caius Marcius chance to meet,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.41>'Tis sworn between us we shall ever strike</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.42>Till one can do no more.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>All</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.43>The gods assist you!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>AUFIDIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.44>And keep your honours safe!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>First Senator</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.45>Farewell.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>Second Senator</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.46>Farewell.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>All</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.47>Farewell.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE III. Rome. A room in Marcius' house.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter VOLUMNIA and VIRGILIA they set them down on two low stools, and sew</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>VOLUMNIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.1>I pray you, daughter, sing; or express yourself in a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.2>more comfortable sort: if my son were my husband, I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.3>should freelier rejoice in that absence wherein he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.4>won honour than in the embracements of his bed where</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.5>he would show most love. When yet he was but</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.6>tender-bodied and the only son of my womb, when</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.7>youth with comeliness plucked all gaze his way, when</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.8>for a day of kings' entreaties a mother should not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.9>sell him an hour from her beholding, I, considering</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.10>how honour would become such a person. that it was</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.11>no better than picture-like to hang by the wall, if</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.12>renown made it not stir, was pleased to let him seek</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.13>danger where he was like to find fame. To a cruel</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.14>war I sent him; from whence he returned, his brows</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.15>bound with oak. I tell thee, daughter, I sprang not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.16>more in joy at first hearing he was a man-child</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.17>than now in first seeing he had proved himself a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.18>man.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>VIRGILIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.19>But had he died in the business, madam; how then?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>VOLUMNIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.20>Then his good report should have been my son; I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.21>therein would have found issue. Hear me profess</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.22>sincerely: had I a dozen sons, each in my love</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.23>alike and none less dear than thine and my good</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.24>Marcius, I had rather had eleven die nobly for their</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.25>country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter a Gentlewoman</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>Gentlewoman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.26>Madam, the Lady Valeria is come to visit you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>VIRGILIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.27>Beseech you, give me leave to retire myself.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>VOLUMNIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.28>Indeed, you shall not.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.29>Methinks I hear hither your husband's drum,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.30>See him pluck Aufidius down by the hair,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.31>As children from a bear, the Volsces shunning him:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.32>Methinks I see him stamp thus, and call thus:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.33>'Come on, you cowards! you were got in fear,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.34>Though you were born in Rome:' his bloody brow</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.35>With his mail'd hand then wiping, forth he goes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.36>Like to a harvest-man that's task'd to mow</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.37>Or all or lose his hire.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>VIRGILIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.38>His bloody brow! O Jupiter, no blood!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>VOLUMNIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.39>Away, you fool! it more becomes a man</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.40>Than gilt his trophy: the breasts of Hecuba,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.41>When she did suckle Hector, look'd not lovelier</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.42>Than Hector's forehead when it spit forth blood</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.43>At Grecian sword, contemning. Tell Valeria,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.44>We are fit to bid her welcome.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit Gentlewoman</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>VIRGILIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.45>Heavens bless my lord from fell Aufidius!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>VOLUMNIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.46>He'll beat Aufidius 'head below his knee</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.47>And tread upon his neck.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter VALERIA, with an Usher and Gentlewoman</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>VALERIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.48>My ladies both, good day to you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>VOLUMNIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.49>Sweet madam.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>VIRGILIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.50>I am glad to see your ladyship.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>VALERIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.51>How do you both? you are manifest house-keepers.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.52>What are you sewing here? A fine spot, in good</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.53>faith. How does your little son?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>VIRGILIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.54>I thank your ladyship; well, good madam.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>VOLUMNIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.55>He had rather see the swords, and hear a drum, than</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.56>look upon his school-master.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>VALERIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.57>O' my word, the father's son: I'll swear,'tis a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.58>very pretty boy. O' my troth, I looked upon him o'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.59>Wednesday half an hour together: has such a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.60>confirmed countenance. I saw him run after a gilded</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.61>butterfly: and when he caught it, he let it go</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.62>again; and after it again; and over and over he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.63>comes, and again; catched it again; or whether his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.64>fall enraged him, or how 'twas, he did so set his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.65>teeth and tear it; O, I warrant it, how he mammocked</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.66>it!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>VOLUMNIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.67>One on 's father's moods.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>VALERIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.68>Indeed, la, 'tis a noble child.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>VIRGILIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.69>A crack, madam.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>VALERIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.70>Come, lay aside your stitchery; I must have you play</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.71>the idle husewife with me this afternoon.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>VIRGILIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.72>No, good madam; I will not out of doors.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>VALERIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.73>Not out of doors!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>VOLUMNIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.74>She shall, she shall.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>VIRGILIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.75>Indeed, no, by your patience; I'll not over the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.76>threshold till my lord return from the wars.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>VALERIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.77>Fie, you confine yourself most unreasonably: come,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.78>you must go visit the good lady that lies in.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>VIRGILIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.79>I will wish her speedy strength, and visit her with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.80>my prayers; but I cannot go thither.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>VOLUMNIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.81>Why, I pray you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>VIRGILIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.82>'Tis not to save labour, nor that I want love.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>VALERIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.83>You would be another Penelope: yet, they say, all</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.84>the yarn she spun in Ulysses' absence did but fill</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.85>Ithaca full of moths. Come; I would your cambric</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.86>were sensible as your finger, that you might leave</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.87>pricking it for pity. Come, you shall go with us.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>VIRGILIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.88>No, good madam, pardon me; indeed, I will not forth.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>VALERIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.89>In truth, la, go with me; and I'll tell you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.90>excellent news of your husband.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>VIRGILIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.91>O, good madam, there can be none yet.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>VALERIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.92>Verily, I do not jest with you; there came news from</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.93>him last night.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>VIRGILIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.94>Indeed, madam?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>VALERIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.95>In earnest, it's true; I heard a senator speak it.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.96>Thus it is: the Volsces have an army forth; against</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.97>whom Cominius the general is gone, with one part of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.98>our Roman power: your lord and Titus Lartius are set</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.99>down before their city Corioli; they nothing doubt</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.100>prevailing and to make it brief wars. This is true,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.101>on mine honour; and so, I pray, go with us.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>VIRGILIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.102>Give me excuse, good madam; I will obey you in every</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.103>thing hereafter.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>VOLUMNIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.104>Let her alone, lady: as she is now, she will but</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.105>disease our better mirth.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>VALERIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.106>In troth, I think she would. Fare you well, then.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.107>Come, good sweet lady. Prithee, Virgilia, turn thy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.108>solemness out o' door. and go along with us.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>VIRGILIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.109>No, at a word, madam; indeed, I must not. I wish</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.110>you much mirth.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>VALERIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.111>Well, then, farewell.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE IV. Before Corioli.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter, with drum and colours, MARCIUS, TITUS LARTIUS, Captains and Soldiers. To them a Messenger</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>MARCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.1>Yonder comes news. A wager they have met.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>LARTIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.2>My horse to yours, no.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>MARCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.3>'Tis done.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>LARTIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.4>Agreed.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>MARCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.5>Say, has our general met the enemy?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.6>They lie in view; but have not spoke as yet.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>LARTIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.7>So, the good horse is mine.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>MARCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.8>I'll buy him of you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>LARTIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.9>No, I'll nor sell nor give him: lend you him I will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.10>For half a hundred years. Summon the town.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>MARCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.11>How far off lie these armies?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.12>Within this mile and half.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>MARCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.13>Then shall we hear their 'larum, and they ours.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.14>Now, Mars, I prithee, make us quick in work,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.15>That we with smoking swords may march from hence,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.16>To help our fielded friends! Come, blow thy blast.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>They sound a parley. Enter two Senators with others on the walls</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.17>Tutus Aufidius, is he within your walls?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>First Senator</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.18>No, nor a man that fears you less than he,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.19>That's lesser than a little.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Drums afar off</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.20>Hark! our drums</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.21>Are bringing forth our youth. We'll break our walls,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.22>Rather than they shall pound us up: our gates,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.23>Which yet seem shut, we, have but pinn'd with rushes;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.24>They'll open of themselves.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Alarum afar off</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.25>Hark you. far off!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.26>There is Aufidius; list, what work he makes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.27>Amongst your cloven army.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>MARCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.28>O, they are at it!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>LARTIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.29>Their noise be our instruction. Ladders, ho!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter the army of the Volsces</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>MARCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.30>They fear us not, but issue forth their city.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.31>Now put your shields before your hearts, and fight</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.32>With hearts more proof than shields. Advance,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.33>brave Titus:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.34>They do disdain us much beyond our thoughts,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.35>Which makes me sweat with wrath. Come on, my fellows:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.36>He that retires I'll take him for a Volsce,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.37>And he shall feel mine edge.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Alarum. The Romans are beat back to their trenches. Re-enter MARCIUS cursing</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>MARCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.38>All the contagion of the south light on you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.39>You shames of Rome! you herd of--Boils and plagues</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.40>Plaster you o'er, that you may be abhorr'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.41>Further than seen and one infect another</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.42>Against the wind a mile! You souls of geese,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.43>That bear the shapes of men, how have you run</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.44>From slaves that apes would beat! Pluto and hell!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.45>All hurt behind; backs red, and faces pale</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.46>With flight and agued fear! Mend and charge home,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.47>Or, by the fires of heaven, I'll leave the foe</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.48>And make my wars on you: look to't: come on;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.49>If you'll stand fast, we'll beat them to their wives,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.50>As they us to our trenches followed.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Another alarum. The Volsces fly, and MARCIUS follows them to the gates</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.51>So, now the gates are ope: now prove good seconds:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.52>'Tis for the followers fortune widens them,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.53>Not for the fliers: mark me, and do the like.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enters the gates</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>First Soldier</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.54>Fool-hardiness; not I.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>Second Soldier</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.55>Nor I.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>MARCIUS is shut in</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>First Soldier</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.56>See, they have shut him in.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>All</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.57>To the pot, I warrant him.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Alarum continues</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter TITUS LARTIUS</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>LARTIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.58>What is become of Marcius?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>All</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.59>Slain, sir, doubtless.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>First Soldier</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.60>Following the fliers at the very heels,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.61>With them he enters; who, upon the sudden,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.62>Clapp'd to their gates: he is himself alone,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.63>To answer all the city.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>LARTIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.64>O noble fellow!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.65>Who sensibly outdares his senseless sword,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.66>And, when it bows, stands up. Thou art left, Marcius:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.67>A carbuncle entire, as big as thou art,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.68>Were not so rich a jewel. Thou wast a soldier</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.69>Even to Cato's wish, not fierce and terrible</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.70>Only in strokes; but, with thy grim looks and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.71>The thunder-like percussion of thy sounds,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.72>Thou madst thine enemies shake, as if the world</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.73>Were feverous and did tremble.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter MARCIUS, bleeding, assaulted by the enemy</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>First Soldier</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.74>Look, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>LARTIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.75>O,'tis Marcius!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.76>Let's fetch him off, or make remain alike.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>They fight, and all enter the city</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE V. Corioli. A street.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter certain Romans, with spoils</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>First Roman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.1>This will I carry to Rome.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>Second Roman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.2>And I this.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>Third Roman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.3>A murrain on't! I took this for silver.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Alarum continues still afar off</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Enter MARCIUS and TITUS LARTIUS with a trumpet</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>MARCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.4>See here these movers that do prize their hours</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.5>At a crack'd drachm! Cushions, leaden spoons,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.6>Irons of a doit, doublets that hangmen would</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.7>Bury with those that wore them, these base slaves,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.8>Ere yet the fight be done, pack up: down with them!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.9>And hark, what noise the general makes! To him!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.10>There is the man of my soul's hate, Aufidius,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.11>Piercing our Romans: then, valiant Titus, take</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.12>Convenient numbers to make good the city;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.13>Whilst I, with those that have the spirit, will haste</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.14>To help Cominius.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>LARTIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.15> Worthy sir, thou bleed'st;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.16>Thy exercise hath been too violent for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.17>A second course of fight.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>MARCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.18>Sir, praise me not;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.19>My work hath yet not warm'd me: fare you well:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.20>The blood I drop is rather physical</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.21>Than dangerous to me: to Aufidius thus</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.22>I will appear, and fight.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>LARTIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.23>Now the fair goddess, Fortune,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.24>Fall deep in love with thee; and her great charms</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.25>Misguide thy opposers' swords! Bold gentleman,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.26>Prosperity be thy page!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>MARCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.27>Thy friend no less</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.28>Than those she placeth highest! So, farewell.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>LARTIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.29>Thou worthiest Marcius!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit MARCIUS</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.30>Go, sound thy trumpet in the market-place;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.31>Call thither all the officers o' the town,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.32>Where they shall know our mind: away!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE VI. Near the camp of Cominius.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter COMINIUS, as it were in retire, with soldiers</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>COMINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.1>Breathe you, my friends: well fought;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.2>we are come off</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.3>Like Romans, neither foolish in our stands,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.4>Nor cowardly in retire: believe me, sirs,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.5>We shall be charged again. Whiles we have struck,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.6>By interims and conveying gusts we have heard</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.7>The charges of our friends. Ye Roman gods!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.8>Lead their successes as we wish our own,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.9>That both our powers, with smiling</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.10>fronts encountering,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.11>May give you thankful sacrifice.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter a Messenger</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.12>Thy news?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.13>The citizens of Corioli have issued,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.14>And given to Lartius and to Marcius battle:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.15>I saw our party to their trenches driven,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.16>And then I came away.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>COMINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.17>Though thou speak'st truth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.18>Methinks thou speak'st not well.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.19>How long is't since?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.20>Above an hour, my lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>COMINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.21>'Tis not a mile; briefly we heard their drums:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.22>How couldst thou in a mile confound an hour,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.23>And bring thy news so late?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.24>Spies of the Volsces</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.25>Held me in chase, that I was forced to wheel</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.26>Three or four miles about, else had I, sir,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.27>Half an hour since brought my report.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>COMINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.28>Who's yonder,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.29>That does appear as he were flay'd? O gods</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.30>He has the stamp of Marcius; and I have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.31>Before-time seen him thus.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>MARCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.32>[Within] Come I too late?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>COMINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.33>The shepherd knows not thunder from a tabour</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.34>More than I know the sound of Marcius' tongue</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.35>From every meaner man.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter MARCIUS</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>MARCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.36>Come I too late?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>COMINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.37>Ay, if you come not in the blood of others,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.38>But mantled in your own.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>MARCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.39>O, let me clip ye</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.40>In arms as sound as when I woo'd, in heart</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.41>As merry as when our nuptial day was done,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.42>And tapers burn'd to bedward!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>COMINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.43>Flower of warriors,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.44>How is it with Titus Lartius?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>MARCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.45>As with a man busied about decrees:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.46>Condemning some to death, and some to exile;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.47>Ransoming him, or pitying, threatening the other;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.48>Holding Corioli in the name of Rome,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.49>Even like a fawning greyhound in the leash,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.50>To let him slip at will.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>COMINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.51>Where is that slave</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.52>Which told me they had beat you to your trenches?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.53>Where is he? call him hither.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>MARCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.54>Let him alone;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.55>He did inform the truth: but for our gentlemen,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.56>The common file--a plague! tribunes for them!--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.57>The mouse ne'er shunn'd the cat as they did budge</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.58>From rascals worse than they.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>COMINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.59>But how prevail'd you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>MARCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.60>Will the time serve to tell? I do not think.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.61>Where is the enemy? are you lords o' the field?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.62>If not, why cease you till you are so?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>COMINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.63>Marcius,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.64>We have at disadvantage fought and did</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.65>Retire to win our purpose.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>MARCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.66>How lies their battle? know you on which side</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.67>They have placed their men of trust?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>COMINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.68>As I guess, Marcius,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.69>Their bands i' the vaward are the Antiates,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.70>Of their best trust; o'er them Aufidius,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.71>Their very heart of hope.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>MARCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.72>I do beseech you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.73>By all the battles wherein we have fought,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.74>By the blood we have shed together, by the vows</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.75>We have made to endure friends, that you directly</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.76>Set me against Aufidius and his Antiates;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.77>And that you not delay the present, but,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.78>Filling the air with swords advanced and darts,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.79>We prove this very hour.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>COMINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.80>Though I could wish</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.81>You were conducted to a gentle bath</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.82>And balms applied to, you, yet dare I never</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.83>Deny your asking: take your choice of those</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.84>That best can aid your action.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>MARCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.85>Those are they</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.86>That most are willing. If any such be here--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.87>As it were sin to doubt--that love this painting</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.88>Wherein you see me smear'd; if any fear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.89>Lesser his person than an ill report;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.90>If any think brave death outweighs bad life</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.91>And that his country's dearer than himself;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.92>Let him alone, or so many so minded,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.93>Wave thus, to express his disposition,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.94>And follow Marcius.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>They all shout and wave their swords, take him up in their arms, and cast up their caps</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.95>O, me alone! make you a sword of me?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.96>If these shows be not outward, which of you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.97>But is four Volsces? none of you but is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.98>Able to bear against the great Aufidius</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.99>A shield as hard as his. A certain number,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.100>Though thanks to all, must I select</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.101>from all: the rest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.102>Shall bear the business in some other fight,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.103>As cause will be obey'd. Please you to march;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.104>And four shall quickly draw out my command,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.105>Which men are best inclined.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>COMINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.106>March on, my fellows:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.107>Make good this ostentation, and you shall</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.108>Divide in all with us.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE VII. The gates of Corioli.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>TITUS LARTIUS, having set a guard upon Corioli, going with drum and trumpet toward COMINIUS and CAIUS MARCIUS, enters with Lieutenant, other Soldiers, and a Scout</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>LARTIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.7.1>So, let the ports be guarded: keep your duties,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.7.2>As I have set them down. If I do send, dispatch</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.7.3>Those centuries to our aid: the rest will serve</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.7.4>For a short holding: if we lose the field,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.7.5>We cannot keep the town.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>Lieutenant</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.7.6>Fear not our care, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>LARTIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.7.7>Hence, and shut your gates upon's.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.7.8>Our guider, come; to the Roman camp conduct us.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE VIII. A field of battle.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Alarum as in battle. Enter, from opposite sides, MARCIUS and AUFIDIUS</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>MARCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.8.1>I'll fight with none but thee; for I do hate thee</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.8.2>Worse than a promise-breaker.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>AUFIDIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.8.3>We hate alike:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.8.4>Not Afric owns a serpent I abhor</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.8.5>More than thy fame and envy. Fix thy foot.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>MARCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.8.6>Let the first budger die the other's slave,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.8.7>And the gods doom him after!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>AUFIDIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.8.8>If I fly, Marcius,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.8.9>Holloa me like a hare.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>MARCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.8.10>Within these three hours, Tullus,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.8.11>Alone I fought in your Corioli walls,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.8.12>And made what work I pleased: 'tis not my blood</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.8.13>Wherein thou seest me mask'd; for thy revenge</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.8.14>Wrench up thy power to the highest.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>AUFIDIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.8.15>Wert thou the Hector</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.8.16>That was the whip of your bragg'd progeny,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.8.17>Thou shouldst not scape me here.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>They fight, and certain Volsces come to the aid of AUFIDIUS. MARCIUS fights till they be driven in breathless</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.8.18>Officious, and not valiant, you have shamed me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.8.19>In your condemned seconds.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE IX. The Roman camp.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Flourish. Alarum. A retreat is sounded. Flourish. Enter, from one side, COMINIUS with the Romans; from the other side, MARCIUS, with his arm in a scarf</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>COMINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.1>If I should tell thee o'er this thy day's work,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.2>Thou'ldst not believe thy deeds: but I'll report it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.3>Where senators shall mingle tears with smiles,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.4>Where great patricians shall attend and shrug,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.5>I' the end admire, where ladies shall be frighted,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.6>And, gladly quaked, hear more; where the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.7>dull tribunes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.8>That, with the fusty plebeians, hate thine honours,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.9>Shall say against their hearts 'We thank the gods</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.10>Our Rome hath such a soldier.'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.11>Yet camest thou to a morsel of this feast,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.12>Having fully dined before.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter TITUS LARTIUS, with his power, from the pursuit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>LARTIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.13>O general,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.14>Here is the steed, we the caparison:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.15>Hadst thou beheld--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>MARCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.16>Pray now, no more: my mother,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.17>Who has a charter to extol her blood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.18>When she does praise me grieves me. I have done</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.19>As you have done; that's what I can; induced</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.20>As you have been; that's for my country:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.21>He that has but effected his good will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.22>Hath overta'en mine act.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>COMINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.23>You shall not be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.24>The grave of your deserving; Rome must know</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.25>The value of her own: 'twere a concealment</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.26>Worse than a theft, no less than a traducement,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.27>To hide your doings; and to silence that,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.28>Which, to the spire and top of praises vouch'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.29>Would seem but modest: therefore, I beseech you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.30>In sign of what you are, not to reward</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.31>What you have done--before our army hear me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>MARCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.32>I have some wounds upon me, and they smart</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.33>To hear themselves remember'd.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>COMINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.34>Should they not,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.35>Well might they fester 'gainst ingratitude,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.36>And tent themselves with death. Of all the horses,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.37>Whereof we have ta'en good and good store, of all</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.38>The treasure in this field achieved and city,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.39>We render you the tenth, to be ta'en forth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.40>Before the common distribution, at</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.41>Your only choice.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>MARCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.42> I thank you, general;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.43>But cannot make my heart consent to take</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.44>A bribe to pay my sword: I do refuse it;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.45>And stand upon my common part with those</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.46>That have beheld the doing.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>A long flourish. They all cry 'Marcius! Marcius!' cast up their caps and lances: COMINIUS and LARTIUS stand bare</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>MARCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.47>May these same instruments, which you profane,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.48>Never sound more! when drums and trumpets shall</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.49>I' the field prove flatterers, let courts and cities be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.50>Made all of false-faced soothing!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.51>When steel grows soft as the parasite's silk,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.52>Let him be made a coverture for the wars!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.53>No more, I say! For that I have not wash'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.54>My nose that bled, or foil'd some debile wretch.--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.55>Which, without note, here's many else have done,--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.56>You shout me forth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.57>In acclamations hyperbolical;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.58>As if I loved my little should be dieted</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.59>In praises sauced with lies.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>COMINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.60>Too modest are you;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.61>More cruel to your good report than grateful</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.62>To us that give you truly: by your patience,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.63>If 'gainst yourself you be incensed, we'll put you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.64>Like one that means his proper harm, in manacles,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.65>Then reason safely with you. Therefore, be it known,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.66>As to us, to all the world, that Caius Marcius</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.67>Wears this war's garland: in token of the which,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.68>My noble steed, known to the camp, I give him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.69>With all his trim belonging; and from this time,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.70>For what he did before Corioli, call him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.71>With all the applause and clamour of the host,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.72>CAIUS MARCIUS CORIOLANUS! Bear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.73>The addition nobly ever!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Flourish. Trumpets sound, and drums</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>All</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.74>Caius Marcius Coriolanus!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.75>I will go wash;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.76>And when my face is fair, you shall perceive</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.77>Whether I blush or no: howbeit, I thank you.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.78>I mean to stride your steed, and at all times</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.79>To undercrest your good addition</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.80>To the fairness of my power.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>COMINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.81>So, to our tent;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.82>Where, ere we do repose us, we will write</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.83>To Rome of our success. You, Titus Lartius,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.84>Must to Corioli back: send us to Rome</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.85>The best, with whom we may articulate,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.86>For their own good and ours.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>LARTIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.87>I shall, my lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.88>The gods begin to mock me. I, that now</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.89>Refused most princely gifts, am bound to beg</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.90>Of my lord general.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>COMINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.91>Take't; 'tis yours. What is't?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.92>I sometime lay here in Corioli</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.93>At a poor man's house; he used me kindly:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.94>He cried to me; I saw him prisoner;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.95>But then Aufidius was with in my view,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.96>And wrath o'erwhelm'd my pity: I request you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.97>To give my poor host freedom.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>COMINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.98>O, well begg'd!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.99>Were he the butcher of my son, he should</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.100>Be free as is the wind. Deliver him, Titus.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>LARTIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.101>Marcius, his name?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.102> By Jupiter! forgot.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.103>I am weary; yea, my memory is tired.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.104>Have we no wine here?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>COMINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.105>Go we to our tent:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.106>The blood upon your visage dries; 'tis time</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.9.107>It should be look'd to: come.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE X. The camp of the Volsces.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>A flourish. Cornets. Enter TULLUS AUFIDIUS, bloody, with two or three Soldiers</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>AUFIDIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.10.1>The town is ta'en!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>First Soldier</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.10.2>'Twill be deliver'd back on good condition.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>AUFIDIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.10.3>Condition!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.10.4>I would I were a Roman; for I cannot,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.10.5>Being a Volsce, be that I am. Condition!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.10.6>What good condition can a treaty find</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.10.7>I' the part that is at mercy? Five times, Marcius,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.10.8>I have fought with thee: so often hast thou beat me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.10.9>And wouldst do so, I think, should we encounter</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.10.10>As often as we eat. By the elements,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.10.11>If e'er again I meet him beard to beard,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.10.12>He's mine, or I am his: mine emulation</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.10.13>Hath not that honour in't it had; for where</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.10.14>I thought to crush him in an equal force,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.10.15>True sword to sword, I'll potch at him some way</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.10.16>Or wrath or craft may get him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>First Soldier</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.10.17>He's the devil.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>AUFIDIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.10.18>Bolder, though not so subtle. My valour's poison'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.10.19>With only suffering stain by him; for him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.10.20>Shall fly out of itself: nor sleep nor sanctuary,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.10.21>Being naked, sick, nor fane nor Capitol,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.10.22>The prayers of priests nor times of sacrifice,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.10.23>Embarquements all of fury, shall lift up</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.10.24>Their rotten privilege and custom 'gainst</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.10.25>My hate to Marcius: where I find him, were it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.10.26>At home, upon my brother's guard, even there,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.10.27>Against the hospitable canon, would I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.10.28>Wash my fierce hand in's heart. Go you to the city;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.10.29>Learn how 'tis held; and what they are that must</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.10.30>Be hostages for Rome.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>First Soldier</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.10.31>Will not you go?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>AUFIDIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.10.32>I am attended at the cypress grove: I pray you--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.10.33>'Tis south the city mills--bring me word thither</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.10.34>How the world goes, that to the pace of it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.10.35>I may spur on my journey.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>First Soldier</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.10.36>I shall, sir.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote><p> | |
| <H3>ACT II</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. Rome. A public place.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter MENENIUS with the two Tribunes of the people, SICINIUS and BRUTUS.</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.1>The augurer tells me we shall have news to-night.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.2>Good or bad?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.3>Not according to the prayer of the people, for they</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.4>love not Marcius.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.5>Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.6>Pray you, who does the wolf love?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.7>The lamb.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.8>Ay, to devour him; as the hungry plebeians would the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.9>noble Marcius.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.10>He's a lamb indeed, that baes like a bear.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.11>He's a bear indeed, that lives like a lamb. You two</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.12>are old men: tell me one thing that I shall ask you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>Both</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.13>Well, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.14>In what enormity is Marcius poor in, that you two</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.15>have not in abundance?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.16>He's poor in no one fault, but stored with all.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.17>Especially in pride.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.18>And topping all others in boasting.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.19>This is strange now: do you two know how you are</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.20>censured here in the city, I mean of us o' the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.21>right-hand file? do you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>Both</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.22>Why, how are we censured?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.23>Because you talk of pride now,--will you not be angry?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>Both</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.24>Well, well, sir, well.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.25>Why, 'tis no great matter; for a very little thief of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.26>occasion will rob you of a great deal of patience:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.27>give your dispositions the reins, and be angry at</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.28>your pleasures; at the least if you take it as a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.29>pleasure to you in being so. You blame Marcius for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.30>being proud?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.31>We do it not alone, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.32>I know you can do very little alone; for your helps</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.33>are many, or else your actions would grow wondrous</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.34>single: your abilities are too infant-like for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.35>doing much alone. You talk of pride: O that you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.36>could turn your eyes toward the napes of your necks,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.37>and make but an interior survey of your good selves!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.38>O that you could!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.39>What then, sir?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.40>Why, then you should discover a brace of unmeriting,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.41>proud, violent, testy magistrates, alias fools, as</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.42>any in Rome.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.43>Menenius, you are known well enough too.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.44>I am known to be a humorous patrician, and one that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.45>loves a cup of hot wine with not a drop of allaying</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.46>Tiber in't; said to be something imperfect in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.47>favouring the first complaint; hasty and tinder-like</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.48>upon too trivial motion; one that converses more</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.49>with the buttock of the night than with the forehead</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.50>of the morning: what I think I utter, and spend my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.51>malice in my breath. Meeting two such wealsmen as</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.52>you are--I cannot call you Lycurguses--if the drink</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.53>you give me touch my palate adversely, I make a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.54>crooked face at it. I can't say your worships have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.55>delivered the matter well, when I find the ass in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.56>compound with the major part of your syllables: and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.57>though I must be content to bear with those that say</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.58>you are reverend grave men, yet they lie deadly that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.59>tell you you have good faces. If you see this in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.60>the map of my microcosm, follows it that I am known</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.61>well enough too? what barm can your bisson</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.62>conspectuities glean out of this character, if I be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.63>known well enough too?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.64>Come, sir, come, we know you well enough.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.65>You know neither me, yourselves nor any thing. You</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.66>are ambitious for poor knaves' caps and legs: you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.67>wear out a good wholesome forenoon in hearing a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.68>cause between an orange wife and a fosset-seller;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.69>and then rejourn the controversy of three pence to a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.70>second day of audience. When you are hearing a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.71>matter between party and party, if you chance to be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.72>pinched with the colic, you make faces like</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.73>mummers; set up the bloody flag against all</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.74>patience; and, in roaring for a chamber-pot,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.75>dismiss the controversy bleeding the more entangled</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.76>by your hearing: all the peace you make in their</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.77>cause is, calling both the parties knaves. You are</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.78>a pair of strange ones.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.79>Come, come, you are well understood to be a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.80>perfecter giber for the table than a necessary</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.81>bencher in the Capitol.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.82>Our very priests must become mockers, if they shall</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.83>encounter such ridiculous subjects as you are. When</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.84>you speak best unto the purpose, it is not worth the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.85>wagging of your beards; and your beards deserve not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.86>so honourable a grave as to stuff a botcher's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.87>cushion, or to be entombed in an ass's pack-</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.88>saddle. Yet you must be saying, Marcius is proud;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.89>who in a cheap estimation, is worth predecessors</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.90>since Deucalion, though peradventure some of the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.91>best of 'em were hereditary hangmen. God-den to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.92>your worships: more of your conversation would</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.93>infect my brain, being the herdsmen of the beastly</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.94>plebeians: I will be bold to take my leave of you.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>BRUTUS and SICINIUS go aside</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Enter VOLUMNIA, VIRGILIA, and VALERIA</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.95>How now, my as fair as noble ladies,--and the moon,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.96>were she earthly, no nobler,--whither do you follow</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.97>your eyes so fast?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>VOLUMNIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.98>Honourable Menenius, my boy Marcius approaches; for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.99>the love of Juno, let's go.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.100>Ha! Marcius coming home!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>VOLUMNIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.101>Ay, worthy Menenius; and with most prosperous</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.102>approbation.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.103>Take my cap, Jupiter, and I thank thee. Hoo!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.104>Marcius coming home!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>VOLUMNIA</b></a> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>VIRGILIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.105>Nay,'tis true.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>VOLUMNIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.106>Look, here's a letter from him: the state hath</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.107>another, his wife another; and, I think, there's one</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.108>at home for you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.109>I will make my very house reel tonight: a letter for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.110>me!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>VIRGILIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.111>Yes, certain, there's a letter for you; I saw't.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.112>A letter for me! it gives me an estate of seven</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.113>years' health; in which time I will make a lip at</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.114>the physician: the most sovereign prescription in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.115>Galen is but empiricutic, and, to this preservative,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.116>of no better report than a horse-drench. Is he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.117>not wounded? he was wont to come home wounded.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>VIRGILIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.118>O, no, no, no.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>VOLUMNIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.119>O, he is wounded; I thank the gods for't.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.120>So do I too, if it be not too much: brings a'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.121>victory in his pocket? the wounds become him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>VOLUMNIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.122>On's brows: Menenius, he comes the third time home</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.123>with the oaken garland.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.124>Has he disciplined Aufidius soundly?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>VOLUMNIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.125>Titus Lartius writes, they fought together, but</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.126>Aufidius got off.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.127>And 'twas time for him too, I'll warrant him that:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.128>an he had stayed by him, I would not have been so</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.129>fidiused for all the chests in Corioli, and the gold</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.130>that's in them. Is the senate possessed of this?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>VOLUMNIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.131>Good ladies, let's go. Yes, yes, yes; the senate</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.132>has letters from the general, wherein he gives my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.133>son the whole name of the war: he hath in this</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.134>action outdone his former deeds doubly</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>VALERIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.135>In troth, there's wondrous things spoke of him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.136>Wondrous! ay, I warrant you, and not without his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.137>true purchasing.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>VIRGILIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.138>The gods grant them true!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>VOLUMNIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.139>True! pow, wow.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.140>True! I'll be sworn they are true.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.141>Where is he wounded?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To the Tribunes</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.142>God save your good worships! Marcius is coming</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.143>home: he has more cause to be proud. Where is he wounded?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>VOLUMNIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.144>I' the shoulder and i' the left arm there will be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.145>large cicatrices to show the people, when he shall</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.146>stand for his place. He received in the repulse of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.147>Tarquin seven hurts i' the body.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.148>One i' the neck, and two i' the thigh,--there's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.149>nine that I know.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>VOLUMNIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.150>He had, before this last expedition, twenty-five</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.151>wounds upon him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.152>Now it's twenty-seven: every gash was an enemy's grave.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>A shout and flourish</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.153>Hark! the trumpets.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>VOLUMNIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.154>These are the ushers of Marcius: before him he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.155>carries noise, and behind him he leaves tears:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.156>Death, that dark spirit, in 's nervy arm doth lie;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.157>Which, being advanced, declines, and then men die.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>A sennet. Trumpets sound. Enter COMINIUS the general, and TITUS LARTIUS; between them, CORIOLANUS, crowned with an oaken garland; with Captains and Soldiers, and a Herald</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>Herald</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.158>Know, Rome, that all alone Marcius did fight</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.159>Within Corioli gates: where he hath won,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.160>With fame, a name to Caius Marcius; these</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.161>In honour follows Coriolanus.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.162>Welcome to Rome, renowned Coriolanus!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Flourish</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>All</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.163>Welcome to Rome, renowned Coriolanus!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.164>No more of this; it does offend my heart:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.165>Pray now, no more.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech61><b>COMINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.166> Look, sir, your mother!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech62><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.167>O,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.168>You have, I know, petition'd all the gods</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.169>For my prosperity!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Kneels</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech63><b>VOLUMNIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.170> Nay, my good soldier, up;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.171>My gentle Marcius, worthy Caius, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.172>By deed-achieving honour newly named,--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.173>What is it?--Coriolanus must I call thee?--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.174>But O, thy wife!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech64><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.175> My gracious silence, hail!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.176>Wouldst thou have laugh'd had I come coffin'd home,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.177>That weep'st to see me triumph? Ay, my dear,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.178>Such eyes the widows in Corioli wear,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.179>And mothers that lack sons.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech65><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.180>Now, the gods crown thee!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech66><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.181>And live you yet?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To VALERIA</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.182>O my sweet lady, pardon.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech67><b>VOLUMNIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.183>I know not where to turn: O, welcome home:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.184>And welcome, general: and ye're welcome all.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech68><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.185>A hundred thousand welcomes. I could weep</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.186>And I could laugh, I am light and heavy. Welcome.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.187>A curse begin at very root on's heart,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.188>That is not glad to see thee! You are three</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.189>That Rome should dote on: yet, by the faith of men,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.190>We have some old crab-trees here</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.191>at home that will not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.192>Be grafted to your relish. Yet welcome, warriors:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.193>We call a nettle but a nettle and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.194>The faults of fools but folly.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech69><b>COMINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.195>Ever right.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech70><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.196>Menenius ever, ever.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech71><b>Herald</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.197>Give way there, and go on!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech72><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.198>[To VOLUMNIA and VIRGILIA] Your hand, and yours:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.199>Ere in our own house I do shade my head,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.200>The good patricians must be visited;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.201>From whom I have received not only greetings,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.202>But with them change of honours.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech73><b>VOLUMNIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.203>I have lived</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.204>To see inherited my very wishes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.205>And the buildings of my fancy: only</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.206>There's one thing wanting, which I doubt not but</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.207>Our Rome will cast upon thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech74><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.208>Know, good mother,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.209>I had rather be their servant in my way,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.210>Than sway with them in theirs.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech75><b>COMINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.211>On, to the Capitol!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Flourish. Cornets. Exeunt in state, as before. BRUTUS and SICINIUS come forward</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech76><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.212>All tongues speak of him, and the bleared sights</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.213>Are spectacled to see him: your prattling nurse</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.214>Into a rapture lets her baby cry</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.215>While she chats him: the kitchen malkin pins</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.216>Her richest lockram 'bout her reechy neck,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.217>Clambering the walls to eye him: stalls, bulks, windows,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.218>Are smother'd up, leads fill'd, and ridges horsed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.219>With variable complexions, all agreeing</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.220>In earnestness to see him: seld-shown flamens</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.221>Do press among the popular throngs and puff</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.222>To win a vulgar station: or veil'd dames</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.223>Commit the war of white and damask in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.224>Their nicely-gawded cheeks to the wanton spoil</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.225>Of Phoebus' burning kisses: such a pother</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.226>As if that whatsoever god who leads him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.227>Were slily crept into his human powers</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.228>And gave him graceful posture.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech77><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.229>On the sudden,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.230>I warrant him consul.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech78><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.231>Then our office may,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.232>During his power, go sleep.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech79><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.233>He cannot temperately transport his honours</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.234>From where he should begin and end, but will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.235>Lose those he hath won.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech80><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.236>In that there's comfort.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech81><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.237>Doubt not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.238>The commoners, for whom we stand, but they</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.239>Upon their ancient malice will forget</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.240>With the least cause these his new honours, which</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.241>That he will give them make I as little question</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.242>As he is proud to do't.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech82><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.243>I heard him swear,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.244>Were he to stand for consul, never would he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.245>Appear i' the market-place nor on him put</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.246>The napless vesture of humility;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.247>Nor showing, as the manner is, his wounds</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.248>To the people, beg their stinking breaths.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech83><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.249>'Tis right.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech84><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.250>It was his word: O, he would miss it rather</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.251>Than carry it but by the suit of the gentry to him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.252>And the desire of the nobles.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech85><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.253>I wish no better</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.254>Than have him hold that purpose and to put it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.255>In execution.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech86><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.256>'Tis most like he will.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech87><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.257>It shall be to him then as our good wills,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.258>A sure destruction.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech88><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.259>So it must fall out</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.260>To him or our authorities. For an end,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.261>We must suggest the people in what hatred</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.262>He still hath held them; that to's power he would</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.263>Have made them mules, silenced their pleaders and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.264>Dispropertied their freedoms, holding them,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.265>In human action and capacity,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.266>Of no more soul nor fitness for the world</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.267>Than camels in the war, who have their provand</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.268>Only for bearing burdens, and sore blows</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.269>For sinking under them.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech89><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.270>This, as you say, suggested</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.271>At some time when his soaring insolence</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.272>Shall touch the people--which time shall not want,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.273>If he be put upon 't; and that's as easy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.274>As to set dogs on sheep--will be his fire</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.275>To kindle their dry stubble; and their blaze</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.276>Shall darken him for ever.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter a Messenger</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech90><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.277>What's the matter?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech91><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.278>You are sent for to the Capitol. 'Tis thought</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.279>That Marcius shall be consul:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.280>I have seen the dumb men throng to see him and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.281>The blind to bear him speak: matrons flung gloves,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.282>Ladies and maids their scarfs and handkerchers,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.283>Upon him as he pass'd: the nobles bended,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.284>As to Jove's statue, and the commons made</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.285>A shower and thunder with their caps and shouts:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.286>I never saw the like.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech92><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.287>Let's to the Capitol;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.288>And carry with us ears and eyes for the time,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.289>But hearts for the event.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech93><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.290>Have with you.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE II. The same. The Capitol.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter two Officers, to lay cushions</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>First Officer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.1>Come, come, they are almost here. How many stand</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.2>for consulships?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>Second Officer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.3>Three, they say: but 'tis thought of every one</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.4>Coriolanus will carry it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>First Officer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.5>That's a brave fellow; but he's vengeance proud, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.6>loves not the common people.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>Second Officer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.7>Faith, there had been many great men that have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.8>flattered the people, who ne'er loved them; and there</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.9>be many that they have loved, they know not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.10>wherefore: so that, if they love they know not why,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.11>they hate upon no better a ground: therefore, for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.12>Coriolanus neither to care whether they love or hate</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.13>him manifests the true knowledge he has in their</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.14>disposition; and out of his noble carelessness lets</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.15>them plainly see't.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>First Officer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.16>If he did not care whether he had their love or no,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.17>he waved indifferently 'twixt doing them neither</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.18>good nor harm: but he seeks their hate with greater</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.19>devotion than can render it him; and leaves</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.20>nothing undone that may fully discover him their</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.21>opposite. Now, to seem to affect the malice and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.22>displeasure of the people is as bad as that which he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.23>dislikes, to flatter them for their love.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>Second Officer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.24>He hath deserved worthily of his country: and his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.25>ascent is not by such easy degrees as those who,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.26>having been supple and courteous to the people,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.27>bonneted, without any further deed to have them at</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.28>an into their estimation and report: but he hath so</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.29>planted his honours in their eyes, and his actions</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.30>in their hearts, that for their tongues to be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.31>silent, and not confess so much, were a kind of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.32>ingrateful injury; to report otherwise, were a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.33>malice, that, giving itself the lie, would pluck</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.34>reproof and rebuke from every ear that heard it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>First Officer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.35>No more of him; he is a worthy man: make way, they</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.36>are coming.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>A sennet. Enter, with actors before them, COMINIUS the consul, MENENIUS, CORIOLANUS, Senators, SICINIUS and BRUTUS. The Senators take their places; the Tribunes take their Places by themselves. CORIOLANUS stands</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.37>Having determined of the Volsces and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.38>To send for Titus Lartius, it remains,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.39>As the main point of this our after-meeting,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.40>To gratify his noble service that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.41>Hath thus stood for his country: therefore,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.42>please you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.43>Most reverend and grave elders, to desire</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.44>The present consul, and last general</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.45>In our well-found successes, to report</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.46>A little of that worthy work perform'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.47>By Caius Marcius Coriolanus, whom</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.48>We met here both to thank and to remember</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.49>With honours like himself.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>First Senator</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.50>Speak, good Cominius:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.51>Leave nothing out for length, and make us think</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.52>Rather our state's defective for requital</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.53>Than we to stretch it out.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To the Tribunes</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.54>Masters o' the people,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.55>We do request your kindest ears, and after,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.56>Your loving motion toward the common body,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.57>To yield what passes here.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.58>We are convented</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.59>Upon a pleasing treaty, and have hearts</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.60>Inclinable to honour and advance</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.61>The theme of our assembly.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.62>Which the rather</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.63>We shall be blest to do, if he remember</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.64>A kinder value of the people than</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.65>He hath hereto prized them at.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.66>That's off, that's off;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.67>I would you rather had been silent. Please you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.68>To hear Cominius speak?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.69>Most willingly;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.70>But yet my caution was more pertinent</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.71>Than the rebuke you give it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.72>He loves your people</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.73>But tie him not to be their bedfellow.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.74>Worthy Cominius, speak.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>CORIOLANUS offers to go away</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.75>Nay, keep your place.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>First Senator</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.76>Sit, Coriolanus; never shame to hear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.77>What you have nobly done.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.78>Your horror's pardon:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.79>I had rather have my wounds to heal again</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.80>Than hear say how I got them.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.81>Sir, I hope</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.82>My words disbench'd you not.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.83>No, sir: yet oft,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.84>When blows have made me stay, I fled from words.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.85>You soothed not, therefore hurt not: but</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.86>your people,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.87>I love them as they weigh.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.88>Pray now, sit down.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.89>I had rather have one scratch my head i' the sun</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.90>When the alarum were struck than idly sit</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.91>To hear my nothings monster'd.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.92>Masters of the people,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.93>Your multiplying spawn how can he flatter--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.94>That's thousand to one good one--when you now see</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.95>He had rather venture all his limbs for honour</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.96>Than one on's ears to hear it? Proceed, Cominius.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>COMINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.97>I shall lack voice: the deeds of Coriolanus</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.98>Should not be utter'd feebly. It is held</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.99>That valour is the chiefest virtue, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.100>Most dignifies the haver: if it be,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.101>The man I speak of cannot in the world</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.102>Be singly counterpoised. At sixteen years,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.103>When Tarquin made a head for Rome, he fought</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.104>Beyond the mark of others: our then dictator,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.105>Whom with all praise I point at, saw him fight,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.106>When with his Amazonian chin he drove</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.107>The bristled lips before him: be bestrid</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.108>An o'er-press'd Roman and i' the consul's view</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.109>Slew three opposers: Tarquin's self he met,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.110>And struck him on his knee: in that day's feats,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.111>When he might act the woman in the scene,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.112>He proved best man i' the field, and for his meed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.113>Was brow-bound with the oak. His pupil age</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.114>Man-enter'd thus, he waxed like a sea,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.115>And in the brunt of seventeen battles since</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.116>He lurch'd all swords of the garland. For this last,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.117>Before and in Corioli, let me say,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.118>I cannot speak him home: he stopp'd the fliers;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.119>And by his rare example made the coward</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.120>Turn terror into sport: as weeds before</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.121>A vessel under sail, so men obey'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.122>And fell below his stem: his sword, death's stamp,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.123>Where it did mark, it took; from face to foot</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.124>He was a thing of blood, whose every motion</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.125>Was timed with dying cries: alone he enter'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.126>The mortal gate of the city, which he painted</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.127>With shunless destiny; aidless came off,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.128>And with a sudden reinforcement struck</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.129>Corioli like a planet: now all's his:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.130>When, by and by, the din of war gan pierce</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.131>His ready sense; then straight his doubled spirit</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.132>Re-quicken'd what in flesh was fatigate,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.133>And to the battle came he; where he did</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.134>Run reeking o'er the lives of men, as if</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.135>'Twere a perpetual spoil: and till we call'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.136>Both field and city ours, he never stood</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.137>To ease his breast with panting.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.138>Worthy man!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>First Senator</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.139>He cannot but with measure fit the honours</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.140>Which we devise him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>COMINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.141>Our spoils he kick'd at,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.142>And look'd upon things precious as they were</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.143>The common muck of the world: he covets less</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.144>Than misery itself would give; rewards</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.145>His deeds with doing them, and is content</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.146>To spend the time to end it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.147>He's right noble:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.148>Let him be call'd for.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>First Senator</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.149>Call Coriolanus.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>Officer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.150>He doth appear.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter CORIOLANUS</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.151>The senate, Coriolanus, are well pleased</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.152>To make thee consul.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.153>I do owe them still</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.154>My life and services.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.155>It then remains</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.156>That you do speak to the people.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.157>I do beseech you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.158>Let me o'erleap that custom, for I cannot</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.159>Put on the gown, stand naked and entreat them,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.160>For my wounds' sake, to give their suffrage: please you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.161>That I may pass this doing.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.162>Sir, the people</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.163>Must have their voices; neither will they bate</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.164>One jot of ceremony.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.165>Put them not to't:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.166>Pray you, go fit you to the custom and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.167>Take to you, as your predecessors have,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.168>Your honour with your form.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.169>It is apart</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.170>That I shall blush in acting, and might well</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.171>Be taken from the people.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.172>Mark you that?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.173>To brag unto them, thus I did, and thus;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.174>Show them the unaching scars which I should hide,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.175>As if I had received them for the hire</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.176>Of their breath only!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.177>Do not stand upon't.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.178>We recommend to you, tribunes of the people,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.179>Our purpose to them: and to our noble consul</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.180>Wish we all joy and honour.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>Senators</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.181>To Coriolanus come all joy and honour!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Flourish of cornets. Exeunt all but SICINIUS and BRUTUS</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.182>You see how he intends to use the people.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.183>May they perceive's intent! He will require them,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.184>As if he did contemn what he requested</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.185>Should be in them to give.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.186>Come, we'll inform them</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.187>Of our proceedings here: on the marketplace,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.188>I know, they do attend us.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE III. The same. The Forum.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter seven or eight Citizens</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>First Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.1>Once, if he do require our voices, we ought not to deny him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>Second Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.2>We may, sir, if we will.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>Third Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.3>We have power in ourselves to do it, but it is a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.4>power that we have no power to do; for if he show us</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.5>his wounds and tell us his deeds, we are to put our</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.6>tongues into those wounds and speak for them; so, if</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.7>he tell us his noble deeds, we must also tell him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.8>our noble acceptance of them. Ingratitude is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.9>monstrous, and for the multitude to be ingrateful,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.10>were to make a monster of the multitude: of the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.11>which we being members, should bring ourselves to be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.12>monstrous members.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>First Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.13>And to make us no better thought of, a little help</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.14>will serve; for once we stood up about the corn, he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.15>himself stuck not to call us the many-headed multitude.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>Third Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.16>We have been called so of many; not that our heads</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.17>are some brown, some black, some auburn, some bald,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.18>but that our wits are so diversely coloured: and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.19>truly I think if all our wits were to issue out of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.20>one skull, they would fly east, west, north, south,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.21>and their consent of one direct way should be at</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.22>once to all the points o' the compass.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>Second Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.23>Think you so? Which way do you judge my wit would</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.24>fly?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>Third Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.25>Nay, your wit will not so soon out as another man's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.26>will;'tis strongly wedged up in a block-head, but</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.27>if it were at liberty, 'twould, sure, southward.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>Second Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.28>Why that way?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>Third Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.29>To lose itself in a fog, where being three parts</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.30>melted away with rotten dews, the fourth would return</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.31>for conscience sake, to help to get thee a wife.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>Second Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.32>You are never without your tricks: you may, you may.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>Third Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.33>Are you all resolved to give your voices? But</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.34>that's no matter, the greater part carries it. I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.35>say, if he would incline to the people, there was</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.36>never a worthier man.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter CORIOLANUS in a gown of humility, with MENENIUS</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.37>Here he comes, and in the gown of humility: mark his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.38>behavior. We are not to stay all together, but to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.39>come by him where he stands, by ones, by twos, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.40>by threes. He's to make his requests by</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.41>particulars; wherein every one of us has a single</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.42>honour, in giving him our own voices with our own</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.43>tongues: therefore follow me, and I direct you how</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.44>you shall go by him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>All</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.45>Content, content.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt Citizens</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.46>O sir, you are not right: have you not known</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.47>The worthiest men have done't?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.48>What must I say?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.49>'I Pray, sir'--Plague upon't! I cannot bring</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.50>My tongue to such a pace:--'Look, sir, my wounds!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.51>I got them in my country's service, when</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.52>Some certain of your brethren roar'd and ran</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.53>From the noise of our own drums.'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.54>O me, the gods!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.55>You must not speak of that: you must desire them</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.56>To think upon you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.57> Think upon me! hang 'em!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.58>I would they would forget me, like the virtues</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.59>Which our divines lose by 'em.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.60>You'll mar all:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.61>I'll leave you: pray you, speak to 'em, I pray you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.62>In wholesome manner.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.63>Bid them wash their faces</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.64>And keep their teeth clean.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter two of the Citizens</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.65>So, here comes a brace.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter a third Citizen</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.66>You know the cause, air, of my standing here.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>Third Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.67>We do, sir; tell us what hath brought you to't.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.68>Mine own desert.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>Second Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.69>Your own desert!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.70>Ay, but not mine own desire.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>Third Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.71>How not your own desire?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.72>No, sir,'twas never my desire yet to trouble the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.73>poor with begging.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>Third Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.74>You must think, if we give you any thing, we hope to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.75>gain by you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.76>Well then, I pray, your price o' the consulship?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>First Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.77>The price is to ask it kindly.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.78>Kindly! Sir, I pray, let me ha't: I have wounds to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.79>show you, which shall be yours in private. Your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.80>good voice, sir; what say you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>Second Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.81>You shall ha' it, worthy sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.82>A match, sir. There's in all two worthy voices</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.83>begged. I have your alms: adieu.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>Third Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.84>But this is something odd.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>Second Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.85>An 'twere to give again,--but 'tis no matter.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt the three Citizens</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter two other Citizens</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.86>Pray you now, if it may stand with the tune of your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.87>voices that I may be consul, I have here the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.88>customary gown.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>Fourth Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.89>You have deserved nobly of your country, and you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.90>have not deserved nobly.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.91>Your enigma?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>Fourth Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.92>You have been a scourge to her enemies, you have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.93>been a rod to her friends; you have not indeed loved</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.94>the common people.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.95>You should account me the more virtuous that I have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.96>not been common in my love. I will, sir, flatter my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.97>sworn brother, the people, to earn a dearer</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.98>estimation of them; 'tis a condition they account</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.99>gentle: and since the wisdom of their choice is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.100>rather to have my hat than my heart, I will practise</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.101>the insinuating nod and be off to them most</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.102>counterfeitly; that is, sir, I will counterfeit the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.103>bewitchment of some popular man and give it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.104>bountiful to the desirers. Therefore, beseech you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.105>I may be consul.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>Fifth Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.106>We hope to find you our friend; and therefore give</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.107>you our voices heartily.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>Fourth Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.108>You have received many wounds for your country.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.109>I will not seal your knowledge with showing them. I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.110>will make much of your voices, and so trouble you no further.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>Both Citizens</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.111>The gods give you joy, sir, heartily!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.112>Most sweet voices!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.113>Better it is to die, better to starve,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.114>Than crave the hire which first we do deserve.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.115>Why in this woolvish toge should I stand here,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.116>To beg of Hob and Dick, that do appear,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.117>Their needless vouches? Custom calls me to't:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.118>What custom wills, in all things should we do't,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.119>The dust on antique time would lie unswept,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.120>And mountainous error be too highly heapt</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.121>For truth to o'er-peer. Rather than fool it so,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.122>Let the high office and the honour go</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.123>To one that would do thus. I am half through;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.124>The one part suffer'd, the other will I do.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter three Citizens more</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.125>Here come more voices.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.126>Your voices: for your voices I have fought;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.127>Watch'd for your voices; for Your voices bear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.128>Of wounds two dozen odd; battles thrice six</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.129>I have seen and heard of; for your voices have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.130>Done many things, some less, some more your voices:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.131>Indeed I would be consul.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>Sixth Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.132>He has done nobly, and cannot go without any honest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.133>man's voice.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>Seventh Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.134>Therefore let him be consul: the gods give him joy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.135>and make him good friend to the people!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>All Citizens</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.136>Amen, amen. God save thee, noble consul!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.137>Worthy voices!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter MENENIUS, with BRUTUS and SICINIUS</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.138>You have stood your limitation; and the tribunes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.139>Endue you with the people's voice: remains</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.140>That, in the official marks invested, you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.141>Anon do meet the senate.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.142>Is this done?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.143>The custom of request you have discharged:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.144>The people do admit you, and are summon'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.145>To meet anon, upon your approbation.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.146>Where? at the senate-house?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.147>There, Coriolanus.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.148>May I change these garments?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.149>You may, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.150>That I'll straight do; and, knowing myself again,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.151>Repair to the senate-house.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.152>I'll keep you company. Will you along?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.153>We stay here for the people.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.154>Fare you well.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt CORIOLANUS and MENENIUS</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.155>He has it now, and by his looks methink</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.156>'Tis warm at 's heart.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.157>With a proud heart he wore his humble weeds.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.158>will you dismiss the people?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter Citizens</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.159>How now, my masters! have you chose this man?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>First Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.160>He has our voices, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech61><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.161>We pray the gods he may deserve your loves.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech62><b>Second Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.162>Amen, sir: to my poor unworthy notice,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.163>He mock'd us when he begg'd our voices.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech63><b>Third Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.164>Certainly</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.165>He flouted us downright.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech64><b>First Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.166>No,'tis his kind of speech: he did not mock us.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech65><b>Second Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.167>Not one amongst us, save yourself, but says</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.168>He used us scornfully: he should have show'd us</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.169>His marks of merit, wounds received for's country.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech66><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.170>Why, so he did, I am sure.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech67><b>Citizens</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.171>No, no; no man saw 'em.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech68><b>Third Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.172>He said he had wounds, which he could show</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.173>in private;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.174>And with his hat, thus waving it in scorn,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.175>'I would be consul,' says he: 'aged custom,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.176>But by your voices, will not so permit me;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.177>Your voices therefore.' When we granted that,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.178>Here was 'I thank you for your voices: thank you:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.179>Your most sweet voices: now you have left</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.180>your voices,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.181>I have no further with you.' Was not this mockery?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech69><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.182>Why either were you ignorant to see't,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.183>Or, seeing it, of such childish friendliness</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.184>To yield your voices?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech70><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.185>Could you not have told him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.186>As you were lesson'd, when he had no power,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.187>But was a petty servant to the state,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.188>He was your enemy, ever spake against</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.189>Your liberties and the charters that you bear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.190>I' the body of the weal; and now, arriving</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.191>A place of potency and sway o' the state,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.192>If he should still malignantly remain</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.193>Fast foe to the plebeii, your voices might</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.194>Be curses to yourselves? You should have said</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.195>That as his worthy deeds did claim no less</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.196>Than what he stood for, so his gracious nature</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.197>Would think upon you for your voices and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.198>Translate his malice towards you into love,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.199>Standing your friendly lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech71><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.200>Thus to have said,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.201>As you were fore-advised, had touch'd his spirit</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.202>And tried his inclination; from him pluck'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.203>Either his gracious promise, which you might,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.204>As cause had call'd you up, have held him to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.205>Or else it would have gall'd his surly nature,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.206>Which easily endures not article</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.207>Tying him to aught; so putting him to rage,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.208>You should have ta'en the advantage of his choler</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.209>And pass'd him unelected.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech72><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.210>Did you perceive</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.211>He did solicit you in free contempt</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.212>When he did need your loves, and do you think</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.213>That his contempt shall not be bruising to you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.214>When he hath power to crush? Why, had your bodies</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.215>No heart among you? or had you tongues to cry</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.216>Against the rectorship of judgment?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech73><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.217>Have you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.218>Ere now denied the asker? and now again</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.219>Of him that did not ask, but mock, bestow</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.220>Your sued-for tongues?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech74><b>Third Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.221>He's not confirm'd; we may deny him yet.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech75><b>Second Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.222>And will deny him:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.223>I'll have five hundred voices of that sound.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech76><b>First Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.224>I twice five hundred and their friends to piece 'em.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech77><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.225>Get you hence instantly, and tell those friends,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.226>They have chose a consul that will from them take</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.227>Their liberties; make them of no more voice</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.228>Than dogs that are as often beat for barking</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.229>As therefore kept to do so.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech78><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.230>Let them assemble,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.231>And on a safer judgment all revoke</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.232>Your ignorant election; enforce his pride,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.233>And his old hate unto you; besides, forget not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.234>With what contempt he wore the humble weed,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.235>How in his suit he scorn'd you; but your loves,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.236>Thinking upon his services, took from you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.237>The apprehension of his present portance,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.238>Which most gibingly, ungravely, he did fashion</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.239>After the inveterate hate he bears you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech79><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.240>Lay</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.241>A fault on us, your tribunes; that we laboured,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.242>No impediment between, but that you must</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.243>Cast your election on him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech80><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.244>Say, you chose him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.245>More after our commandment than as guided</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.246>By your own true affections, and that your minds,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.247>Preoccupied with what you rather must do</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.248>Than what you should, made you against the grain</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.249>To voice him consul: lay the fault on us.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech81><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.250>Ay, spare us not. Say we read lectures to you.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.251>How youngly he began to serve his country,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.252>How long continued, and what stock he springs of,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.253>The noble house o' the Marcians, from whence came</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.254>That Ancus Marcius, Numa's daughter's son,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.255>Who, after great Hostilius, here was king;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.256>Of the same house Publius and Quintus were,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.257>That our beat water brought by conduits hither;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.258>And [Censorinus,] nobly named so,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.259>Twice being [by the people chosen] censor,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.260>Was his great ancestor.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech82><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.261>One thus descended,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.262>That hath beside well in his person wrought</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.263>To be set high in place, we did commend</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.264>To your remembrances: but you have found,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.265>Scaling his present bearing with his past,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.266>That he's your fixed enemy, and revoke</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.267>Your sudden approbation.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech83><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.268>Say, you ne'er had done't--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.269>Harp on that still--but by our putting on;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.270>And presently, when you have drawn your number,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.271>Repair to the Capitol.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech84><b>All</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.272>We will so: almost all</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.273>Repent in their election.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt Citizens</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech85><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.274>Let them go on;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.275>This mutiny were better put in hazard,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.276>Than stay, past doubt, for greater:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.277>If, as his nature is, he fall in rage</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.278>With their refusal, both observe and answer</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.279>The vantage of his anger.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech86><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.280>To the Capitol, come:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.281>We will be there before the stream o' the people;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.282>And this shall seem, as partly 'tis, their own,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.283>Which we have goaded onward.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote><p> | |
| <H3>ACT III</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. Rome. A street.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Cornets. Enter CORIOLANUS, MENENIUS, all the Gentry, COMINIUS, TITUS LARTIUS, and other Senators</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.1>Tullus Aufidius then had made new head?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>LARTIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.2>He had, my lord; and that it was which caused</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.3>Our swifter composition.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.4>So then the Volsces stand but as at first,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.5>Ready, when time shall prompt them, to make road.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.6>Upon's again.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>COMINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.7>They are worn, lord consul, so,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.8>That we shall hardly in our ages see</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.9>Their banners wave again.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.10>Saw you Aufidius?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>LARTIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.11>On safe-guard he came to me; and did curse</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.12>Against the Volsces, for they had so vilely</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.13>Yielded the town: he is retired to Antium.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.14>Spoke he of me?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>LARTIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.15> He did, my lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.16>How? what?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>LARTIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.17>How often he had met you, sword to sword;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.18>That of all things upon the earth he hated</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.19>Your person most, that he would pawn his fortunes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.20>To hopeless restitution, so he might</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.21>Be call'd your vanquisher.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.22>At Antium lives he?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>LARTIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.23>At Antium.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.24>I wish I had a cause to seek him there,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.25>To oppose his hatred fully. Welcome home.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter SICINIUS and BRUTUS</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.26>Behold, these are the tribunes of the people,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.27>The tongues o' the common mouth: I do despise them;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.28>For they do prank them in authority,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.29>Against all noble sufferance.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.30>Pass no further.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.31>Ha! what is that?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.32>It will be dangerous to go on: no further.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.33>What makes this change?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.34>The matter?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>COMINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.35>Hath he not pass'd the noble and the common?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.36>Cominius, no.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.37> Have I had children's voices?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>First Senator</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.38>Tribunes, give way; he shall to the market-place.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.39>The people are incensed against him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.40>Stop,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.41>Or all will fall in broil.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.42>Are these your herd?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.43>Must these have voices, that can yield them now</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.44>And straight disclaim their tongues? What are</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.45>your offices?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.46>You being their mouths, why rule you not their teeth?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.47>Have you not set them on?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.48>Be calm, be calm.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.49>It is a purposed thing, and grows by plot,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.50>To curb the will of the nobility:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.51>Suffer't, and live with such as cannot rule</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.52>Nor ever will be ruled.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.53>Call't not a plot:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.54>The people cry you mock'd them, and of late,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.55>When corn was given them gratis, you repined;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.56>Scandal'd the suppliants for the people, call'd them</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.57>Time-pleasers, flatterers, foes to nobleness.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.58>Why, this was known before.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.59>Not to them all.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.60>Have you inform'd them sithence?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.61>How! I inform them!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.62>You are like to do such business.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.63>Not unlike,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.64>Each way, to better yours.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.65>Why then should I be consul? By yond clouds,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.66>Let me deserve so ill as you, and make me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.67>Your fellow tribune.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.68>You show too much of that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.69>For which the people stir: if you will pass</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.70>To where you are bound, you must inquire your way,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.71>Which you are out of, with a gentler spirit,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.72>Or never be so noble as a consul,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.73>Nor yoke with him for tribune.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.74>Let's be calm.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>COMINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.75>The people are abused; set on. This paltering</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.76>Becomes not Rome, nor has Coriolanus</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.77>Deserved this so dishonour'd rub, laid falsely</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.78>I' the plain way of his merit.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.79>Tell me of corn!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.80>This was my speech, and I will speak't again--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.81>Not now, not now.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>First Senator</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.82> Not in this heat, sir, now.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.83>Now, as I live, I will. My nobler friends,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.84>I crave their pardons:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.85>For the mutable, rank-scented many, let them</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.86>Regard me as I do not flatter, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.87>Therein behold themselves: I say again,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.88>In soothing them, we nourish 'gainst our senate</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.89>The cockle of rebellion, insolence, sedition,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.90>Which we ourselves have plough'd for, sow'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.91>and scatter'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.92>By mingling them with us, the honour'd number,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.93>Who lack not virtue, no, nor power, but that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.94>Which they have given to beggars.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.95>Well, no more.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>First Senator</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.96>No more words, we beseech you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.97>How! no more!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.98>As for my country I have shed my blood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.99>Not fearing outward force, so shall my lungs</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.100>Coin words till their decay against those measles,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.101>Which we disdain should tatter us, yet sought</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.102>The very way to catch them.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.103>You speak o' the people,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.104>As if you were a god to punish, not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.105>A man of their infirmity.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.106>'Twere well</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.107>We let the people know't.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.108>What, what? his choler?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.109>Choler!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.110>Were I as patient as the midnight sleep,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.111>By Jove, 'twould be my mind!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.112>It is a mind</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.113>That shall remain a poison where it is,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.114>Not poison any further.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.115>Shall remain!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.116>Hear you this Triton of the minnows? mark you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.117>His absolute 'shall'?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>COMINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.118>'Twas from the canon.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.119>'Shall'!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.120>O good but most unwise patricians! why,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.121>You grave but reckless senators, have you thus</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.122>Given Hydra here to choose an officer,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.123>That with his peremptory 'shall,' being but</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.124>The horn and noise o' the monster's, wants not spirit</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.125>To say he'll turn your current in a ditch,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.126>And make your channel his? If he have power</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.127>Then vail your ignorance; if none, awake</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.128>Your dangerous lenity. If you are learn'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.129>Be not as common fools; if you are not,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.130>Let them have cushions by you. You are plebeians,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.131>If they be senators: and they are no less,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.132>When, both your voices blended, the great'st taste</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.133>Most palates theirs. They choose their magistrate,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.134>And such a one as he, who puts his 'shall,'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.135>His popular 'shall' against a graver bench</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.136>Than ever frown in Greece. By Jove himself!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.137>It makes the consuls base: and my soul aches</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.138>To know, when two authorities are up,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.139>Neither supreme, how soon confusion</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.140>May enter 'twixt the gap of both and take</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.141>The one by the other.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>COMINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.142>Well, on to the market-place.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.143>Whoever gave that counsel, to give forth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.144>The corn o' the storehouse gratis, as 'twas used</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.145>Sometime in Greece,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.146>Well, well, no more of that.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.147>Though there the people had more absolute power,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.148>I say, they nourish'd disobedience, fed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.149>The ruin of the state.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.150>Why, shall the people give</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.151>One that speaks thus their voice?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.152>I'll give my reasons,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.153>More worthier than their voices. They know the corn</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.154>Was not our recompense, resting well assured</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.155>That ne'er did service for't: being press'd to the war,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.156>Even when the navel of the state was touch'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.157>They would not thread the gates. This kind of service</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.158>Did not deserve corn gratis. Being i' the war</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.159>Their mutinies and revolts, wherein they show'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.160>Most valour, spoke not for them: the accusation</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.161>Which they have often made against the senate,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.162>All cause unborn, could never be the motive</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.163>Of our so frank donation. Well, what then?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.164>How shall this bisson multitude digest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.165>The senate's courtesy? Let deeds express</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.166>What's like to be their words: 'we did request it;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.167>We are the greater poll, and in true fear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.168>They gave us our demands.' Thus we debase</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.169>The nature of our seats and make the rabble</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.170>Call our cares fears; which will in time</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.171>Break ope the locks o' the senate and bring in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.172>The crows to peck the eagles.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.173>Come, enough.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech61><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.174>Enough, with over-measure.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech62><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.175>No, take more:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.176>What may be sworn by, both divine and human,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.177>Seal what I end withal! This double worship,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.178>Where one part does disdain with cause, the other</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.179>Insult without all reason, where gentry, title, wisdom,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.180>Cannot conclude but by the yea and no</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.181>Of general ignorance,--it must omit</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.182>Real necessities, and give way the while</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.183>To unstable slightness: purpose so barr'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.184>it follows,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.185>Nothing is done to purpose. Therefore, beseech you,--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.186>You that will be less fearful than discreet,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.187>That love the fundamental part of state</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.188>More than you doubt the change on't, that prefer</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.189>A noble life before a long, and wish</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.190>To jump a body with a dangerous physic</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.191>That's sure of death without it, at once pluck out</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.192>The multitudinous tongue; let them not lick</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.193>The sweet which is their poison: your dishonour</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.194>Mangles true judgment and bereaves the state</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.195>Of that integrity which should become't,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.196>Not having the power to do the good it would,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.197>For the in which doth control't.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech63><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.198>Has said enough.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech64><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.199>Has spoken like a traitor, and shall answer</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.200>As traitors do.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech65><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.201> Thou wretch, despite o'erwhelm thee!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.202>What should the people do with these bald tribunes?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.203>On whom depending, their obedience fails</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.204>To the greater bench: in a rebellion,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.205>When what's not meet, but what must be, was law,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.206>Then were they chosen: in a better hour,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.207>Let what is meet be said it must be meet,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.208>And throw their power i' the dust.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech66><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.209>Manifest treason!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech67><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.210> This a consul? no.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech68><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.211>The aediles, ho!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter an AEdile</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.212>Let him be apprehended.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech69><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.213>Go, call the people:</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit AEdile</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.214>in whose name myself</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.215>Attach thee as a traitorous innovator,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.216>A foe to the public weal: obey, I charge thee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.217>And follow to thine answer.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech70><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.218>Hence, old goat!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.219>Senators, & C We'll surety him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech71><b>COMINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.220> Aged sir, hands off.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech72><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.221>Hence, rotten thing! or I shall shake thy bones</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.222>Out of thy garments.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech73><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.223>Help, ye citizens!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter a rabble of Citizens (Plebeians), with the AEdiles</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech74><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.224>On both sides more respect.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech75><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.225>Here's he that would take from you all your power.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech76><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.226>Seize him, AEdiles!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech77><b>Citizens</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.227>Down with him! down with him!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.228>Senators, & C Weapons, weapons, weapons!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>They all bustle about CORIOLANUS, crying</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.229>'Tribunes!' 'Patricians!' 'Citizens!' 'What, ho!'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.230>'Sicinius!' 'Brutus!' 'Coriolanus!' 'Citizens!'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.231>'Peace, peace, peace!' 'Stay, hold, peace!'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech78><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.232>What is about to be? I am out of breath;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.233>Confusion's near; I cannot speak. You, tribunes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.234>To the people! Coriolanus, patience!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.235>Speak, good Sicinius.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech79><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.236>Hear me, people; peace!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech80><b>Citizens</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.237>Let's hear our tribune: peace Speak, speak, speak.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech81><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.238>You are at point to lose your liberties:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.239>Marcius would have all from you; Marcius,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.240>Whom late you have named for consul.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech82><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.241>Fie, fie, fie!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.242>This is the way to kindle, not to quench.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech83><b>First Senator</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.243>To unbuild the city and to lay all flat.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech84><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.244>What is the city but the people?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech85><b>Citizens</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.245>True,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.246>The people are the city.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech86><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.247>By the consent of all, we were establish'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.248>The people's magistrates.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech87><b>Citizens</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.249>You so remain.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech88><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.250>And so are like to do.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech89><b>COMINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.251>That is the way to lay the city flat;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.252>To bring the roof to the foundation,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.253>And bury all, which yet distinctly ranges,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.254>In heaps and piles of ruin.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech90><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.255>This deserves death.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech91><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.256>Or let us stand to our authority,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.257>Or let us lose it. We do here pronounce,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.258>Upon the part o' the people, in whose power</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.259>We were elected theirs, Marcius is worthy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.260>Of present death.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech92><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.261> Therefore lay hold of him;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.262>Bear him to the rock Tarpeian, and from thence</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.263>Into destruction cast him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech93><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.264>AEdiles, seize him!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech94><b>Citizens</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.265>Yield, Marcius, yield!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech95><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.266>Hear me one word;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.267>Beseech you, tribunes, hear me but a word.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech96><b>AEdile</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.268>Peace, peace!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech97><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.269>[To BRUTUS] Be that you seem, truly your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.270>country's friend,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.271>And temperately proceed to what you would</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.272>Thus violently redress.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech98><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.273>Sir, those cold ways,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.274>That seem like prudent helps, are very poisonous</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.275>Where the disease is violent. Lay hands upon him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.276>And bear him to the rock.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech99><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.277>No, I'll die here.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Drawing his sword</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.278>There's some among you have beheld me fighting:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.279>Come, try upon yourselves what you have seen me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech100><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.280>Down with that sword! Tribunes, withdraw awhile.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech101><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.281>Lay hands upon him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech102><b>COMINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.282>Help Marcius, help,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.283>You that be noble; help him, young and old!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech103><b>Citizens</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.284>Down with him, down with him!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>In this mutiny, the Tribunes, the AEdiles, and the People, are beat in</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech104><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.285>Go, get you to your house; be gone, away!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.286>All will be naught else.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech105><b>Second Senator</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.287>Get you gone.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech106><b>COMINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.288>Stand fast;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.289>We have as many friends as enemies.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech107><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.290>Sham it be put to that?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech108><b>First Senator</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.291>The gods forbid!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.292>I prithee, noble friend, home to thy house;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.293>Leave us to cure this cause.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech109><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.294>For 'tis a sore upon us,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.295>You cannot tent yourself: be gone, beseech you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech110><b>COMINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.296>Come, sir, along with us.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech111><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.297>I would they were barbarians--as they are,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.298>Though in Rome litter'd--not Romans--as they are not,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.299>Though calved i' the porch o' the Capitol--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech112><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.300>Be gone;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.301>Put not your worthy rage into your tongue;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.302>One time will owe another.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech113><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.303>On fair ground</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.304>I could beat forty of them.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech114><b>COMINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.305>I could myself</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.306>Take up a brace o' the best of them; yea, the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.307>two tribunes:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.308>But now 'tis odds beyond arithmetic;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.309>And manhood is call'd foolery, when it stands</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.310>Against a falling fabric. Will you hence,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.311>Before the tag return? whose rage doth rend</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.312>Like interrupted waters and o'erbear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.313>What they are used to bear.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech115><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.314>Pray you, be gone:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.315>I'll try whether my old wit be in request</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.316>With those that have but little: this must be patch'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.317>With cloth of any colour.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech116><b>COMINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.318>Nay, come away.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt CORIOLANUS, COMINIUS, and others</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech117><b>A Patrician</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.319>This man has marr'd his fortune.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech118><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.320>His nature is too noble for the world:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.321>He would not flatter Neptune for his trident,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.322>Or Jove for's power to thunder. His heart's his mouth:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.323>What his breast forges, that his tongue must vent;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.324>And, being angry, does forget that ever</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.325>He heard the name of death.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>A noise within</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.326>Here's goodly work!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech119><b>Second Patrician</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.327>I would they were abed!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech120><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.328>I would they were in Tiber! What the vengeance!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.329>Could he not speak 'em fair?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter BRUTUS and SICINIUS, with the rabble</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech121><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.330>Where is this viper</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.331>That would depopulate the city and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.332>Be every man himself?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech122><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.333>You worthy tribunes,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech123><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.334>He shall be thrown down the Tarpeian rock</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.335>With rigorous hands: he hath resisted law,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.336>And therefore law shall scorn him further trial</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.337>Than the severity of the public power</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.338>Which he so sets at nought.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech124><b>First Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.339>He shall well know</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.340>The noble tribunes are the people's mouths,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.341>And we their hands.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech125><b>Citizens</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.342>He shall, sure on't.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech126><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.343>Sir, sir,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech127><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.344>Peace!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech128><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.345>Do not cry havoc, where you should but hunt</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.346>With modest warrant.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech129><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.347>Sir, how comes't that you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.348>Have holp to make this rescue?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech130><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.349>Hear me speak:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.350>As I do know the consul's worthiness,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.351>So can I name his faults,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech131><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.352>Consul! what consul?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech132><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.353>The consul Coriolanus.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech133><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.354>He consul!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech134><b>Citizens</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.355>No, no, no, no, no.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech135><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.356>If, by the tribunes' leave, and yours, good people,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.357>I may be heard, I would crave a word or two;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.358>The which shall turn you to no further harm</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.359>Than so much loss of time.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech136><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.360>Speak briefly then;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.361>For we are peremptory to dispatch</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.362>This viperous traitor: to eject him hence</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.363>Were but one danger, and to keep him here</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.364>Our certain death: therefore it is decreed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.365>He dies to-night.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech137><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.366> Now the good gods forbid</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.367>That our renowned Rome, whose gratitude</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.368>Towards her deserved children is enroll'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.369>In Jove's own book, like an unnatural dam</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.370>Should now eat up her own!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech138><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.371>He's a disease that must be cut away.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech139><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.372>O, he's a limb that has but a disease;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.373>Mortal, to cut it off; to cure it, easy.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.374>What has he done to Rome that's worthy death?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.375>Killing our enemies, the blood he hath lost--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.376>Which, I dare vouch, is more than that he hath,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.377>By many an ounce--he dropp'd it for his country;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.378>And what is left, to lose it by his country,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.379>Were to us all, that do't and suffer it,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.380>A brand to the end o' the world.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech140><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.381>This is clean kam.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech141><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.382>Merely awry: when he did love his country,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.383>It honour'd him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech142><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.384> The service of the foot</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.385>Being once gangrened, is not then respected</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.386>For what before it was.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech143><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.387>We'll hear no more.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.388>Pursue him to his house, and pluck him thence:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.389>Lest his infection, being of catching nature,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.390>Spread further.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech144><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.391> One word more, one word.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.392>This tiger-footed rage, when it shall find</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.393>The harm of unscann'd swiftness, will too late</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.394>Tie leaden pounds to's heels. Proceed by process;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.395>Lest parties, as he is beloved, break out,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.396>And sack great Rome with Romans.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech145><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.397>If it were so,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech146><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.398>What do ye talk?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.399>Have we not had a taste of his obedience?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.400>Our aediles smote? ourselves resisted? Come.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech147><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.401>Consider this: he has been bred i' the wars</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.402>Since he could draw a sword, and is ill school'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.403>In bolted language; meal and bran together</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.404>He throws without distinction. Give me leave,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.405>I'll go to him, and undertake to bring him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.406>Where he shall answer, by a lawful form,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.407>In peace, to his utmost peril.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech148><b>First Senator</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.408>Noble tribunes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.409>It is the humane way: the other course</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.410>Will prove too bloody, and the end of it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.411>Unknown to the beginning.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech149><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.412>Noble Menenius,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.413>Be you then as the people's officer.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.414>Masters, lay down your weapons.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech150><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.415>Go not home.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech151><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.416>Meet on the market-place. We'll attend you there:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.417>Where, if you bring not Marcius, we'll proceed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.418>In our first way.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech152><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.419> I'll bring him to you.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To the Senators</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.420>Let me desire your company: he must come,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.421>Or what is worst will follow.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech153><b>First Senator</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.422>Pray you, let's to him.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE II. A room in CORIOLANUS'S house.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter CORIOLANUS with Patricians</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.1>Let them puff all about mine ears, present me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.2>Death on the wheel or at wild horses' heels,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.3>Or pile ten hills on the Tarpeian rock,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.4>That the precipitation might down stretch</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.5>Below the beam of sight, yet will I still</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.6>Be thus to them.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>A Patrician</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.7>You do the nobler.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.8>I muse my mother</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.9>Does not approve me further, who was wont</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.10>To call them woollen vassals, things created</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.11>To buy and sell with groats, to show bare heads</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.12>In congregations, to yawn, be still and wonder,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.13>When one but of my ordinance stood up</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.14>To speak of peace or war.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter VOLUMNIA</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.15>I talk of you:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.16>Why did you wish me milder? would you have me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.17>False to my nature? Rather say I play</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.18>The man I am.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>VOLUMNIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.19> O, sir, sir, sir,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.20>I would have had you put your power well on,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.21>Before you had worn it out.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.22>Let go.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>VOLUMNIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.23>You might have been enough the man you are,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.24>With striving less to be so; lesser had been</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.25>The thwartings of your dispositions, if</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.26>You had not show'd them how ye were disposed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.27>Ere they lack'd power to cross you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.28>Let them hang.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>A Patrician</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.29>Ay, and burn too.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter MENENIUS and Senators</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.30>Come, come, you have been too rough, something</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.31>too rough;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.32>You must return and mend it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>First Senator</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.33>There's no remedy;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.34>Unless, by not so doing, our good city</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.35>Cleave in the midst, and perish.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>VOLUMNIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.36>Pray, be counsell'd:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.37>I have a heart as little apt as yours,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.38>But yet a brain that leads my use of anger</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.39>To better vantage.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.40> Well said, noble woman?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.41>Before he should thus stoop to the herd, but that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.42>The violent fit o' the time craves it as physic</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.43>For the whole state, I would put mine armour on,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.44>Which I can scarcely bear.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.45>What must I do?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.46>Return to the tribunes.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.47>Well, what then? what then?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.48>Repent what you have spoke.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.49>For them! I cannot do it to the gods;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.50>Must I then do't to them?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>VOLUMNIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.51>You are too absolute;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.52>Though therein you can never be too noble,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.53>But when extremities speak. I have heard you say,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.54>Honour and policy, like unsever'd friends,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.55>I' the war do grow together: grant that, and tell me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.56>In peace what each of them by the other lose,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.57>That they combine not there.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.58>Tush, tush!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.59>A good demand.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>VOLUMNIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.60>If it be honour in your wars to seem</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.61>The same you are not, which, for your best ends,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.62>You adopt your policy, how is it less or worse,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.63>That it shall hold companionship in peace</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.64>With honour, as in war, since that to both</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.65>It stands in like request?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.66>Why force you this?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>VOLUMNIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.67>Because that now it lies you on to speak</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.68>To the people; not by your own instruction,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.69>Nor by the matter which your heart prompts you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.70>But with such words that are but rooted in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.71>Your tongue, though but bastards and syllables</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.72>Of no allowance to your bosom's truth.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.73>Now, this no more dishonours you at all</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.74>Than to take in a town with gentle words,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.75>Which else would put you to your fortune and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.76>The hazard of much blood.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.77>I would dissemble with my nature where</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.78>My fortunes and my friends at stake required</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.79>I should do so in honour: I am in this,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.80>Your wife, your son, these senators, the nobles;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.81>And you will rather show our general louts</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.82>How you can frown than spend a fawn upon 'em,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.83>For the inheritance of their loves and safeguard</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.84>Of what that want might ruin.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.85>Noble lady!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.86>Come, go with us; speak fair: you may salve so,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.87>Not what is dangerous present, but the loss</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.88>Of what is past.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>VOLUMNIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.89> I prithee now, my son,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.90>Go to them, with this bonnet in thy hand;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.91>And thus far having stretch'd it--here be with them--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.92>Thy knee bussing the stones--for in such business</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.93>Action is eloquence, and the eyes of the ignorant</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.94>More learned than the ears--waving thy head,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.95>Which often, thus, correcting thy stout heart,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.96>Now humble as the ripest mulberry</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.97>That will not hold the handling: or say to them,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.98>Thou art their soldier, and being bred in broils</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.99>Hast not the soft way which, thou dost confess,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.100>Were fit for thee to use as they to claim,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.101>In asking their good loves, but thou wilt frame</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.102>Thyself, forsooth, hereafter theirs, so far</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.103>As thou hast power and person.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.104>This but done,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.105>Even as she speaks, why, their hearts were yours;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.106>For they have pardons, being ask'd, as free</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.107>As words to little purpose.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>VOLUMNIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.108>Prithee now,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.109>Go, and be ruled: although I know thou hadst rather</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.110>Follow thine enemy in a fiery gulf</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.111>Than flatter him in a bower. Here is Cominius.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter COMINIUS</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>COMINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.112>I have been i' the market-place; and, sir,'tis fit</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.113>You make strong party, or defend yourself</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.114>By calmness or by absence: all's in anger.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.115>Only fair speech.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>COMINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.116> I think 'twill serve, if he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.117>Can thereto frame his spirit.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>VOLUMNIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.118>He must, and will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.119>Prithee now, say you will, and go about it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.120>Must I go show them my unbarbed sconce?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.121>Must I with base tongue give my noble heart</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.122>A lie that it must bear? Well, I will do't:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.123>Yet, were there but this single plot to lose,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.124>This mould of Marcius, they to dust should grind it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.125>And throw't against the wind. To the market-place!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.126>You have put me now to such a part which never</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.127>I shall discharge to the life.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>COMINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.128>Come, come, we'll prompt you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>VOLUMNIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.129>I prithee now, sweet son, as thou hast said</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.130>My praises made thee first a soldier, so,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.131>To have my praise for this, perform a part</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.132>Thou hast not done before.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.133>Well, I must do't:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.134>Away, my disposition, and possess me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.135>Some harlot's spirit! my throat of war be turn'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.136>Which quired with my drum, into a pipe</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.137>Small as an eunuch, or the virgin voice</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.138>That babies lulls asleep! the smiles of knaves</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.139>Tent in my cheeks, and schoolboys' tears take up</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.140>The glasses of my sight! a beggar's tongue</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.141>Make motion through my lips, and my arm'd knees,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.142>Who bow'd but in my stirrup, bend like his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.143>That hath received an alms! I will not do't,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.144>Lest I surcease to honour mine own truth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.145>And by my body's action teach my mind</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.146>A most inherent baseness.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>VOLUMNIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.147>At thy choice, then:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.148>To beg of thee, it is my more dishonour</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.149>Than thou of them. Come all to ruin; let</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.150>Thy mother rather feel thy pride than fear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.151>Thy dangerous stoutness, for I mock at death</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.152>With as big heart as thou. Do as thou list</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.153>Thy valiantness was mine, thou suck'dst it from me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.154>But owe thy pride thyself.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.155>Pray, be content:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.156>Mother, I am going to the market-place;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.157>Chide me no more. I'll mountebank their loves,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.158>Cog their hearts from them, and come home beloved</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.159>Of all the trades in Rome. Look, I am going:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.160>Commend me to my wife. I'll return consul;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.161>Or never trust to what my tongue can do</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.162>I' the way of flattery further.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>VOLUMNIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.163>Do your will.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>COMINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.164>Away! the tribunes do attend you: arm yourself</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.165>To answer mildly; for they are prepared</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.166>With accusations, as I hear, more strong</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.167>Than are upon you yet.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.168>The word is 'mildly.' Pray you, let us go:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.169>Let them accuse me by invention, I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.170>Will answer in mine honour.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.171>Ay, but mildly.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.172>Well, mildly be it then. Mildly!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <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=3.3.1>In this point charge him home, that he affects</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.2>Tyrannical power: if he evade us there,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.3>Enforce him with his envy to the people,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.4>And that the spoil got on the Antiates</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.5>Was ne'er distributed.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter an AEdile</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.6>What, will he come?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>AEdile</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.7>He's coming.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.8>How accompanied?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>AEdile</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.9>With old Menenius, and those senators</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.10>That always favour'd him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.11>Have you a catalogue</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.12>Of all the voices that we have procured</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.13>Set down by the poll?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>AEdile</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.14>I have; 'tis ready.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.15>Have you collected them by tribes?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>AEdile</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.16>I have.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.17>Assemble presently the people hither;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.18>And when they bear me say 'It shall be so</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.19>I' the right and strength o' the commons,' be it either</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.20>For death, for fine, or banishment, then let them</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.21>If I say fine, cry 'Fine;' if death, cry 'Death.'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.22>Insisting on the old prerogative</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.23>And power i' the truth o' the cause.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>AEdile</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.24>I shall inform them.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.25>And when such time they have begun to cry,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.26>Let them not cease, but with a din confused</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.27>Enforce the present execution</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.28>Of what we chance to sentence.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>AEdile</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.29>Very well.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.30>Make them be strong and ready for this hint,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.31>When we shall hap to give 't them.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.32>Go about it.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit AEdile</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.33>Put him to choler straight: he hath been used</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.34>Ever to conquer, and to have his worth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.35>Of contradiction: being once chafed, he cannot</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.36>Be rein'd again to temperance; then he speaks</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.37>What's in his heart; and that is there which looks</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.38>With us to break his neck.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.39>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=3.3.40>Calmly, I do beseech you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.41>Ay, as an ostler, that for the poorest piece</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.42>Will bear the knave by the volume. The honour'd gods</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.43>Keep Rome in safety, and the chairs of justice</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.44>Supplied with worthy men! plant love among 's!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.45>Throng our large temples with the shows of peace,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.46>And not our streets with war!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>First Senator</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.47>Amen, amen.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.48>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=3.3.49>Draw near, ye people.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>AEdile</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.50>List to your tribunes. Audience: peace, I say!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.51>First, hear me speak.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>Both Tribunes</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.52>Well, say. Peace, ho!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.53>Shall I be charged no further than this present?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.54>Must all determine here?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.55>I do demand,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.56>If you submit you to the people's voices,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.57>Allow their officers and are content</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.58>To suffer lawful censure for such faults</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.59>As shall be proved upon you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.60>I am content.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.61>Lo, citizens, he says he is content:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.62>The warlike service he has done, consider; think</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.63>Upon the wounds his body bears, which show</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.64>Like graves i' the holy churchyard.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.65>Scratches with briers,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.66>Scars to move laughter only.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.67>Consider further,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.68>That when he speaks not like a citizen,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.69>You find him like a soldier: do not take</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.70>His rougher accents for malicious sounds,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.71>But, as I say, such as become a soldier,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.72>Rather than envy you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>COMINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.73>Well, well, no more.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.74>What is the matter</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.75>That being pass'd for consul with full voice,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.76>I am so dishonour'd that the very hour</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.77>You take it off again?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.78>Answer to us.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.79>Say, then: 'tis true, I ought so.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.80>We charge you, that you have contrived to take</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.81>From Rome all season'd office and to wind</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.82>Yourself into a power tyrannical;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.83>For which you are a traitor to the people.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.84>How! traitor!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.85> Nay, temperately; your promise.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.86>The fires i' the lowest hell fold-in the people!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.87>Call me their traitor! Thou injurious tribune!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.88>Within thine eyes sat twenty thousand deaths,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.89>In thy hand clutch'd as many millions, in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.90>Thy lying tongue both numbers, I would say</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.91>'Thou liest' unto thee with a voice as free</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.92>As I do pray the gods.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.93>Mark you this, people?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>Citizens</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.94>To the rock, to the rock with him!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.95>Peace!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.96>We need not put new matter to his charge:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.97>What you have seen him do and heard him speak,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.98>Beating your officers, cursing yourselves,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.99>Opposing laws with strokes and here defying</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.100>Those whose great power must try him; even this,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.101>So criminal and in such capital kind,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.102>Deserves the extremest death.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.103>But since he hath</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.104>Served well for Rome,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.105>What do you prate of service?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.106>I talk of that, that know it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.107>You?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.108>Is this the promise that you made your mother?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>COMINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.109>Know, I pray you,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.110>I know no further:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.111>Let them pronounce the steep Tarpeian death,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.112>Vagabond exile, raying, pent to linger</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.113>But with a grain a day, I would not buy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.114>Their mercy at the price of one fair word;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.115>Nor cheque my courage for what they can give,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.116>To have't with saying 'Good morrow.'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.117>For that he has,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.118>As much as in him lies, from time to time</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.119>Envied against the people, seeking means</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.120>To pluck away their power, as now at last</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.121>Given hostile strokes, and that not in the presence</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.122>Of dreaded justice, but on the ministers</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.123>That do distribute it; in the name o' the people</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.124>And in the power of us the tribunes, we,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.125>Even from this instant, banish him our city,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.126>In peril of precipitation</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.127>From off the rock Tarpeian never more</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.128>To enter our Rome gates: i' the people's name,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.129>I say it shall be so.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>Citizens</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.130>It shall be so, it shall be so; let him away:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.131>He's banish'd, and it shall be so.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>COMINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.132>Hear me, my masters, and my common friends,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.133>He's sentenced; no more hearing.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>COMINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.134>Let me speak:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.135>I have been consul, and can show for Rome</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.136>Her enemies' marks upon me. I do love</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.137>My country's good with a respect more tender,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.138>More holy and profound, than mine own life,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.139>My dear wife's estimate, her womb's increase,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.140>And treasure of my loins; then if I would</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.141>Speak that,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.142> We know your drift: speak what?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.143>There's no more to be said, but he is banish'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.144>As enemy to the people and his country:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.145>It shall be so.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>Citizens</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.146>It shall be so, it shall be so.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.147>You common cry of curs! whose breath I hate</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.148>As reek o' the rotten fens, whose loves I prize</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.149>As the dead carcasses of unburied men</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.150>That do corrupt my air, I banish you;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.151>And here remain with your uncertainty!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.152>Let every feeble rumour shake your hearts!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.153>Your enemies, with nodding of their plumes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.154>Fan you into despair! Have the power still</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.155>To banish your defenders; till at length</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.156>Your ignorance, which finds not till it feels,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.157>Making not reservation of yourselves,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.158>Still your own foes, deliver you as most</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.159>Abated captives to some nation</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.160>That won you without blows! Despising,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.161>For you, the city, thus I turn my back:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.162>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=3.3.163>The people's enemy is gone, is gone!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>Citizens</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.164>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=3.3.165>Go, see him out at gates, and follow him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.166>As he hath followed you, with all despite;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.167>Give him deserved vexation. Let a guard</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.168>Attend us through the city.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>Citizens</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.169>Come, come; let's see him out at gates; come.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.170>The gods preserve our noble tribunes! Come.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote><p> | |
| <H3>ACT IV</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. Rome. Before a gate of the city.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter CORIOLANUS, VOLUMNIA, VIRGILIA, MENENIUS, COMINIUS, with the young Nobility of Rome</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.1>Come, leave your tears: a brief farewell: the beast</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.2>With many heads butts me away. Nay, mother,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.3>Where is your ancient courage? you were used</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.4>To say extremity was the trier of spirits;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.5>That common chances common men could bear;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.6>That when the sea was calm all boats alike</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.7>Show'd mastership in floating; fortune's blows,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.8>When most struck home, being gentle wounded, craves</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.9>A noble cunning: you were used to load me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.10>With precepts that would make invincible</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.11>The heart that conn'd them.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>VIRGILIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.12>O heavens! O heavens!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.13>Nay! prithee, woman,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>VOLUMNIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.14>Now the red pestilence strike all trades in Rome,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.15>And occupations perish!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.16>What, what, what!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.17>I shall be loved when I am lack'd. Nay, mother.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.18>Resume that spirit, when you were wont to say,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.19>If you had been the wife of Hercules,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.20>Six of his labours you'ld have done, and saved</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.21>Your husband so much sweat. Cominius,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.22>Droop not; adieu. Farewell, my wife, my mother:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.23>I'll do well yet. Thou old and true Menenius,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.24>Thy tears are salter than a younger man's,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.25>And venomous to thine eyes. My sometime general,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.26>I have seen thee stem, and thou hast oft beheld</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.27>Heart-hardening spectacles; tell these sad women</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.28>'Tis fond to wail inevitable strokes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.29>As 'tis to laugh at 'em. My mother, you wot well</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.30>My hazards still have been your solace: and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.31>Believe't not lightly--though I go alone,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.32>Like to a lonely dragon, that his fen</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.33>Makes fear'd and talk'd of more than seen--your son</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.34>Will or exceed the common or be caught</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.35>With cautelous baits and practise.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>VOLUMNIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.36>My first son.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.37>Whither wilt thou go? Take good Cominius</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.38>With thee awhile: determine on some course,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.39>More than a wild exposture to each chance</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.40>That starts i' the way before thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.41>O the gods!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>COMINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.42>I'll follow thee a month, devise with thee</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.43>Where thou shalt rest, that thou mayst hear of us</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.44>And we of thee: so if the time thrust forth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.45>A cause for thy repeal, we shall not send</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.46>O'er the vast world to seek a single man,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.47>And lose advantage, which doth ever cool</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.48>I' the absence of the needer.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.49>Fare ye well:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.50>Thou hast years upon thee; and thou art too full</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.51>Of the wars' surfeits, to go rove with one</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.52>That's yet unbruised: bring me but out at gate.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.53>Come, my sweet wife, my dearest mother, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.54>My friends of noble touch, when I am forth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.55>Bid me farewell, and smile. I pray you, come.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.56>While I remain above the ground, you shall</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.57>Hear from me still, and never of me aught</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.58>But what is like me formerly.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.59>That's worthily</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.60>As any ear can hear. Come, let's not weep.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.61>If I could shake off but one seven years</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.62>From these old arms and legs, by the good gods,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.63>I'ld with thee every foot.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.64>Give me thy hand: Come.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE II. The same. A street near the gate.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter SICINIUS, BRUTUS, and an AEdile</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.1>Bid them all home; he's gone, and we'll no further.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.2>The nobility are vex'd, whom we see have sided</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.3>In his behalf.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.4> Now we have shown our power,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.5>Let us seem humbler after it is done</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.6>Than when it was a-doing.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.7>Bid them home:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.8>Say their great enemy is gone, and they</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.9>Stand in their ancient strength.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.10>Dismiss them home.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit AEdile</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.11>Here comes his mother.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.12>Let's not meet her.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.13>Why?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.14>They say she's mad.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.15>They have ta'en note of us: keep on your way.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter VOLUMNIA, VIRGILIA, and MENENIUS</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>VOLUMNIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.16>O, ye're well met: the hoarded plague o' the gods</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.17>Requite your love!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.18> Peace, peace; be not so loud.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>VOLUMNIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.19>If that I could for weeping, you should hear,--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.20>Nay, and you shall hear some.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To BRUTUS</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.21>Will you be gone?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>VIRGILIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.22>[To SICINIUS] You shall stay too: I would I had the power</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.23>To say so to my husband.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.24>Are you mankind?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>VOLUMNIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.25>Ay, fool; is that a shame? Note but this fool.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.26>Was not a man my father? Hadst thou foxship</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.27>To banish him that struck more blows for Rome</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.28>Than thou hast spoken words?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.29>O blessed heavens!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>VOLUMNIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.30>More noble blows than ever thou wise words;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.31>And for Rome's good. I'll tell thee what; yet go:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.32>Nay, but thou shalt stay too: I would my son</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.33>Were in Arabia, and thy tribe before him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.34>His good sword in his hand.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.35>What then?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>VIRGILIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.36>What then!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.37>He'ld make an end of thy posterity.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>VOLUMNIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.38>Bastards and all.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.39>Good man, the wounds that he does bear for Rome!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.40>Come, come, peace.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.41>I would he had continued to his country</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.42>As he began, and not unknit himself</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.43>The noble knot he made.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.44>I would he had.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>VOLUMNIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.45>'I would he had'! 'Twas you incensed the rabble:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.46>Cats, that can judge as fitly of his worth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.47>As I can of those mysteries which heaven</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.48>Will not have earth to know.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.49>Pray, let us go.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>VOLUMNIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.50>Now, pray, sir, get you gone:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.51>You have done a brave deed. Ere you go, hear this:--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.52>As far as doth the Capitol exceed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.53>The meanest house in Rome, so far my son--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.54>This lady's husband here, this, do you see--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.55>Whom you have banish'd, does exceed you all.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.56>Well, well, we'll leave you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.57>Why stay we to be baited</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.58>With one that wants her wits?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>VOLUMNIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.59>Take my prayers with you.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt Tribunes</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.60>I would the gods had nothing else to do</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.61>But to confirm my curses! Could I meet 'em</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.62>But once a-day, it would unclog my heart</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.63>Of what lies heavy to't.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.64>You have told them home;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.65>And, by my troth, you have cause. You'll sup with me?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>VOLUMNIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.66>Anger's my meat; I sup upon myself,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.67>And so shall starve with feeding. Come, let's go:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.68>Leave this faint puling and lament as I do,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.69>In anger, Juno-like. Come, come, come.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.70>Fie, fie, fie!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE III. A highway between Rome and Antium.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter a Roman and a Volsce, meeting</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>Roman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.1>I know you well, sir, and you know</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.2>me: your name, I think, is Adrian.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>Volsce</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.3>It is so, sir: truly, I have forgot you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>Roman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.4>I am a Roman; and my services are,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.5>as you are, against 'em: know you me yet?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>Volsce</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.6>Nicanor? no.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>Roman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.7>The same, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>Volsce</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.8>You had more beard when I last saw you; but your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.9>favour is well approved by your tongue. What's the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.10>news in Rome? I have a note from the Volscian state,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.11>to find you out there: you have well saved me a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.12>day's journey.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>Roman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.13>There hath been in Rome strange insurrections; the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.14>people against the senators, patricians, and nobles.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>Volsce</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.15>Hath been! is it ended, then? Our state thinks not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.16>so: they are in a most warlike preparation, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.17>hope to come upon them in the heat of their division.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>Roman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.18>The main blaze of it is past, but a small thing</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.19>would make it flame again: for the nobles receive</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.20>so to heart the banishment of that worthy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.21>Coriolanus, that they are in a ripe aptness to take</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.22>all power from the people and to pluck from them</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.23>their tribunes for ever. This lies glowing, I can</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.24>tell you, and is almost mature for the violent</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.25>breaking out.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>Volsce</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.26>Coriolanus banished!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>Roman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.27>Banished, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>Volsce</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.28>You will be welcome with this intelligence, Nicanor.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>Roman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.29>The day serves well for them now. I have heard it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.30>said, the fittest time to corrupt a man's wife is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.31>when she's fallen out with her husband. Your noble</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.32>Tullus Aufidius will appear well in these wars, his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.33>great opposer, Coriolanus, being now in no request</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.34>of his country.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>Volsce</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.35>He cannot choose. I am most fortunate, thus</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.36>accidentally to encounter you: you have ended my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.37>business, and I will merrily accompany you home.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>Roman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.38>I shall, between this and supper, tell you most</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.39>strange things from Rome; all tending to the good of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.40>their adversaries. Have you an army ready, say you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>Volsce</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.41>A most royal one; the centurions and their charges,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.42>distinctly billeted, already in the entertainment,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.43>and to be on foot at an hour's warning.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>Roman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.44>I am joyful to hear of their readiness, and am the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.45>man, I think, that shall set them in present action.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.46>So, sir, heartily well met, and most glad of your company.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>Volsce</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.47>You take my part from me, sir; I have the most cause</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.48>to be glad of yours.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>Roman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.49>Well, let us go together.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE IV. Antium. Before Aufidius's house.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter CORIOLANUS in mean apparel, disguised and muffled</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.1>A goodly city is this Antium. City,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.2>'Tis I that made thy widows: many an heir</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.3>Of these fair edifices 'fore my wars</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.4>Have I heard groan and drop: then know me not,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.5>Lest that thy wives with spits and boys with stones</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.6>In puny battle slay me.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter a Citizen</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.7>Save you, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.8>And you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.9> Direct me, if it be your will,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.10>Where great Aufidius lies: is he in Antium?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.11>He is, and feasts the nobles of the state</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.12>At his house this night.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.13>Which is his house, beseech you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.14>This, here before you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.15>Thank you, sir: farewell.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit Citizen</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.16>O world, thy slippery turns! Friends now fast sworn,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.17>Whose double bosoms seem to wear one heart,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.18>Whose house, whose bed, whose meal, and exercise,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.19>Are still together, who twin, as 'twere, in love</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.20>Unseparable, shall within this hour,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.21>On a dissension of a doit, break out</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.22>To bitterest enmity: so, fellest foes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.23>Whose passions and whose plots have broke their sleep,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.24>To take the one the other, by some chance,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.25>Some trick not worth an egg, shall grow dear friends</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.26>And interjoin their issues. So with me:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.27>My birth-place hate I, and my love's upon</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.28>This enemy town. I'll enter: if he slay me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.29>He does fair justice; if he give me way,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.30>I'll do his country service.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE V. The same. A hall in Aufidius's house.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Music within. Enter a Servingman</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>First Servingman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.1>Wine, wine, wine! What service</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.2>is here! I think our fellows are asleep.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Enter a second Servingman</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>Second Servingman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.3>Where's Cotus? my master calls</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.4>for him. Cotus!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Enter CORIOLANUS</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.5>A goodly house: the feast smells well; but I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.6>Appear not like a guest.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter the first Servingman</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>First Servingman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.7>What would you have, friend? whence are you?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.8>Here's no place for you: pray, go to the door.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.9>I have deserved no better entertainment,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.10>In being Coriolanus.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter second Servingman</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>Second Servingman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.11>Whence are you, sir? Has the porter his eyes in his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.12>head; that he gives entrance to such companions?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.13>Pray, get you out.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.14>Away!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>Second Servingman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.15>Away! get you away.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.16>Now thou'rt troublesome.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>Second Servingman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.17>Are you so brave? I'll have you talked with anon.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter a third Servingman. The first meets him</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>Third Servingman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.18>What fellow's this?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>First Servingman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.19>A strange one as ever I looked on: I cannot get him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.20>out of the house: prithee, call my master to him.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Retires</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>Third Servingman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.21>What have you to do here, fellow? Pray you, avoid</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.22>the house.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.23>Let me but stand; I will not hurt your hearth.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>Third Servingman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.24>What are you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.25>A gentleman.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>Third Servingman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.26>A marvellous poor one.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.27>True, so I am.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>Third Servingman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.28>Pray you, poor gentleman, take up some other</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.29>station; here's no place for you; pray you, avoid: come.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.30>Follow your function, go, and batten on cold bits.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Pushes him away</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>Third Servingman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.31>What, you will not? Prithee, tell my master what a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.32>strange guest he has here.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>Second Servingman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.33>And I shall.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>Third Servingman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.34>Where dwellest thou?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.35>Under the canopy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>Third Servingman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.36>Under the canopy!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.37>Ay.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>Third Servingman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.38>Where's that?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.39>I' the city of kites and crows.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>Third Servingman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.40>I' the city of kites and crows! What an ass it is!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.41>Then thou dwellest with daws too?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.42>No, I serve not thy master.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>Third Servingman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.43>How, sir! do you meddle with my master?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.44>Ay; 'tis an honester service than to meddle with thy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.45>mistress. Thou pratest, and pratest; serve with thy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.46>trencher, hence!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Beats him away. Exit third Servingman</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Enter AUFIDIUS with the second Servingman</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>AUFIDIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.47>Where is this fellow?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>Second Servingman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.48>Here, sir: I'ld have beaten him like a dog, but for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.49>disturbing the lords within.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Retires</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>AUFIDIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.50>Whence comest thou? what wouldst thou? thy name?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.51>Why speak'st not? speak, man: what's thy name?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.52>If, Tullus,</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Unmuffling</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.53>Not yet thou knowest me, and, seeing me, dost not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.54>Think me for the man I am, necessity</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.55>Commands me name myself.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>AUFIDIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.56>What is thy name?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.57>A name unmusical to the Volscians' ears,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.58>And harsh in sound to thine.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>AUFIDIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.59>Say, what's thy name?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.60>Thou hast a grim appearance, and thy face</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.61>Bears a command in't; though thy tackle's torn.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.62>Thou show'st a noble vessel: what's thy name?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.63>Prepare thy brow to frown: know'st</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.64>thou me yet?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>AUFIDIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.65>I know thee not: thy name?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.66>My name is Caius Marcius, who hath done</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.67>To thee particularly and to all the Volsces</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.68>Great hurt and mischief; thereto witness may</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.69>My surname, Coriolanus: the painful service,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.70>The extreme dangers and the drops of blood</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.71>Shed for my thankless country are requited</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.72>But with that surname; a good memory,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.73>And witness of the malice and displeasure</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.74>Which thou shouldst bear me: only that name remains;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.75>The cruelty and envy of the people,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.76>Permitted by our dastard nobles, who</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.77>Have all forsook me, hath devour'd the rest;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.78>And suffer'd me by the voice of slaves to be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.79>Whoop'd out of Rome. Now this extremity</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.80>Hath brought me to thy hearth; not out of hope--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.81>Mistake me not--to save my life, for if</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.82>I had fear'd death, of all the men i' the world</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.83>I would have 'voided thee, but in mere spite,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.84>To be full quit of those my banishers,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.85>Stand I before thee here. Then if thou hast</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.86>A heart of wreak in thee, that wilt revenge</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.87>Thine own particular wrongs and stop those maims</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.88>Of shame seen through thy country, speed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.89>thee straight,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.90>And make my misery serve thy turn: so use it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.91>That my revengeful services may prove</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.92>As benefits to thee, for I will fight</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.93>Against my canker'd country with the spleen</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.94>Of all the under fiends. But if so be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.95>Thou darest not this and that to prove more fortunes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.96>Thou'rt tired, then, in a word, I also am</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.97>Longer to live most weary, and present</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.98>My throat to thee and to thy ancient malice;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.99>Which not to cut would show thee but a fool,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.100>Since I have ever follow'd thee with hate,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.101>Drawn tuns of blood out of thy country's breast,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.102>And cannot live but to thy shame, unless</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.103>It be to do thee service.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>AUFIDIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.104>O Marcius, Marcius!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.105>Each word thou hast spoke hath weeded from my heart</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.106>A root of ancient envy. If Jupiter</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.107>Should from yond cloud speak divine things,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.108>And say 'Tis true,' I'ld not believe them more</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.109>Than thee, all noble Marcius. Let me twine</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.110>Mine arms about that body, where against</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.111>My grained ash an hundred times hath broke</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.112>And scarr'd the moon with splinters: here I clip</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.113>The anvil of my sword, and do contest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.114>As hotly and as nobly with thy love</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.115>As ever in ambitious strength I did</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.116>Contend against thy valour. Know thou first,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.117>I loved the maid I married; never man</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.118>Sigh'd truer breath; but that I see thee here,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.119>Thou noble thing! more dances my rapt heart</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.120>Than when I first my wedded mistress saw</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.121>Bestride my threshold. Why, thou Mars! I tell thee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.122>We have a power on foot; and I had purpose</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.123>Once more to hew thy target from thy brawn,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.124>Or lose mine arm fort: thou hast beat me out</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.125>Twelve several times, and I have nightly since</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.126>Dreamt of encounters 'twixt thyself and me;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.127>We have been down together in my sleep,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.128>Unbuckling helms, fisting each other's throat,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.129>And waked half dead with nothing. Worthy Marcius,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.130>Had we no quarrel else to Rome, but that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.131>Thou art thence banish'd, we would muster all</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.132>From twelve to seventy, and pouring war</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.133>Into the bowels of ungrateful Rome,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.134>Like a bold flood o'er-bear. O, come, go in,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.135>And take our friendly senators by the hands;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.136>Who now are here, taking their leaves of me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.137>Who am prepared against your territories,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.138>Though not for Rome itself.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.139>You bless me, gods!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>AUFIDIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.140>Therefore, most absolute sir, if thou wilt have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.141>The leading of thine own revenges, take</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.142>The one half of my commission; and set down--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.143>As best thou art experienced, since thou know'st</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.144>Thy country's strength and weakness,--thine own ways;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.145>Whether to knock against the gates of Rome,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.146>Or rudely visit them in parts remote,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.147>To fright them, ere destroy. But come in:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.148>Let me commend thee first to those that shall</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.149>Say yea to thy desires. A thousand welcomes!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.150>And more a friend than e'er an enemy;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.151>Yet, Marcius, that was much. Your hand: most welcome!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt CORIOLANUS and AUFIDIUS. The two Servingmen come forward</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>First Servingman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.152>Here's a strange alteration!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>Second Servingman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.153>By my hand, I had thought to have strucken him with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.154>a cudgel; and yet my mind gave me his clothes made a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.155>false report of him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>First Servingman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.156>What an arm he has! he turned me about with his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.157>finger and his thumb, as one would set up a top.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>Second Servingman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.158>Nay, I knew by his face that there was something in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.159>him: he had, sir, a kind of face, methought,--I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.160>cannot tell how to term it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>First Servingman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.161>He had so; looking as it were--would I were hanged,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.162>but I thought there was more in him than I could think.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>Second Servingman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.163>So did I, I'll be sworn: he is simply the rarest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.164>man i' the world.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>First Servingman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.165>I think he is: but a greater soldier than he you wot on.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>Second Servingman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.166>Who, my master?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>First Servingman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.167>Nay, it's no matter for that.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>Second Servingman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.168>Worth six on him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>First Servingman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.169>Nay, not so neither: but I take him to be the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.170>greater soldier.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>Second Servingman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.171>Faith, look you, one cannot tell how to say that:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.172>for the defence of a town, our general is excellent.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>First Servingman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.173>Ay, and for an assault too.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter third Servingman</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>Third Servingman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.174>O slaves, I can tell you news,-- news, you rascals!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>First Servingman</b></a> | |
| <A NAME=speech61><b>Second Servingman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.175>What, what, what? let's partake.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech62><b>Third Servingman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.176>I would not be a Roman, of all nations; I had as</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.177>lieve be a condemned man.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech63><b>First Servingman</b></a> | |
| <A NAME=speech64><b>Second Servingman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.178>Wherefore? wherefore?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech65><b>Third Servingman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.179>Why, here's he that was wont to thwack our general,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.180>Caius Marcius.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech66><b>First Servingman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.181>Why do you say 'thwack our general '?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech67><b>Third Servingman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.182>I do not say 'thwack our general;' but he was always</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.183>good enough for him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech68><b>Second Servingman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.184>Come, we are fellows and friends: he was ever too</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.185>hard for him; I have heard him say so himself.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech69><b>First Servingman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.186>He was too hard for him directly, to say the troth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.187>on't: before Corioli he scotched him and notched</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.188>him like a carbon ado.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech70><b>Second Servingman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.189>An he had been cannibally given, he might have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.190>broiled and eaten him too.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech71><b>First Servingman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.191>But, more of thy news?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech72><b>Third Servingman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.192>Why, he is so made on here within, as if he were son</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.193>and heir to Mars; set at upper end o' the table; no</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.194>question asked him by any of the senators, but they</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.195>stand bald before him: our general himself makes a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.196>mistress of him: sanctifies himself with's hand and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.197>turns up the white o' the eye to his discourse. But</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.198>the bottom of the news is that our general is cut i'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.199>the middle and but one half of what he was</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.200>yesterday; for the other has half, by the entreaty</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.201>and grant of the whole table. He'll go, he says,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.202>and sowl the porter of Rome gates by the ears: he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.203>will mow all down before him, and leave his passage polled.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech73><b>Second Servingman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.204>And he's as like to do't as any man I can imagine.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech74><b>Third Servingman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.205>Do't! he will do't; for, look you, sir, he has as</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.206>many friends as enemies; which friends, sir, as it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.207>were, durst not, look you, sir, show themselves, as</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.208>we term it, his friends whilst he's in directitude.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech75><b>First Servingman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.209>Directitude! what's that?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech76><b>Third Servingman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.210>But when they shall see, sir, his crest up again,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.211>and the man in blood, they will out of their</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.212>burrows, like conies after rain, and revel all with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.213>him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech77><b>First Servingman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.214>But when goes this forward?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech78><b>Third Servingman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.215>To-morrow; to-day; presently; you shall have the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.216>drum struck up this afternoon: 'tis, as it were, a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.217>parcel of their feast, and to be executed ere they</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.218>wipe their lips.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech79><b>Second Servingman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.219>Why, then we shall have a stirring world again.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.220>This peace is nothing, but to rust iron, increase</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.221>tailors, and breed ballad-makers.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech80><b>First Servingman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.222>Let me have war, say I; it exceeds peace as far as</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.223>day does night; it's spritely, waking, audible, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.224>full of vent. Peace is a very apoplexy, lethargy;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.225>mulled, deaf, sleepy, insensible; a getter of more</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.226>bastard children than war's a destroyer of men.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech81><b>Second Servingman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.227>'Tis so: and as war, in some sort, may be said to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.228>be a ravisher, so it cannot be denied but peace is a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.229>great maker of cuckolds.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech82><b>First Servingman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.230>Ay, and it makes men hate one another.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech83><b>Third Servingman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.231>Reason; because they then less need one another.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.232>The wars for my money. I hope to see Romans as cheap</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.233>as Volscians. They are rising, they are rising.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech84><b>All</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.234>In, in, in, in!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE VI. Rome. A public place.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter SICINIUS and BRUTUS</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.1>We hear not of him, neither need we fear him;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.2>His remedies are tame i' the present peace</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.3>And quietness of the people, which before</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.4>Were in wild hurry. Here do we make his friends</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.5>Blush that the world goes well, who rather had,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.6>Though they themselves did suffer by't, behold</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.7>Dissentious numbers pestering streets than see</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.8>Our tradesmen with in their shops and going</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.9>About their functions friendly.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.10>We stood to't in good time.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter MENENIUS</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.11>Is this Menenius?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.12>'Tis he,'tis he: O, he is grown most kind of late.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>Both Tribunes</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.13>Hail sir!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.14> Hail to you both!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.15>Your Coriolanus</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.16>Is not much miss'd, but with his friends:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.17>The commonwealth doth stand, and so would do,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.18>Were he more angry at it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.19>All's well; and might have been much better, if</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.20>He could have temporized.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.21>Where is he, hear you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.22>Nay, I hear nothing: his mother and his wife</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.23>Hear nothing from him.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter three or four Citizens</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>Citizens</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.24>The gods preserve you both!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.25>God-den, our neighbours.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.26>God-den to you all, god-den to you all.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>First Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.27>Ourselves, our wives, and children, on our knees,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.28>Are bound to pray for you both.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.29>Live, and thrive!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.30>Farewell, kind neighbours: we wish'd Coriolanus</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.31>Had loved you as we did.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>Citizens</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.32>Now the gods keep you!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>Both Tribunes</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.33>Farewell, farewell.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt Citizens</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.34>This is a happier and more comely time</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.35>Than when these fellows ran about the streets,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.36>Crying confusion.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.37> Caius Marcius was</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.38>A worthy officer i' the war; but insolent,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.39>O'ercome with pride, ambitious past all thinking,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.40>Self-loving,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.41> And affecting one sole throne,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.42>Without assistance.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.43>I think not so.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.44>We should by this, to all our lamentation,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.45>If he had gone forth consul, found it so.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.46>The gods have well prevented it, and Rome</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.47>Sits safe and still without him.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter an AEdile</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>AEdile</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.48>Worthy tribunes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.49>There is a slave, whom we have put in prison,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.50>Reports, the Volsces with two several powers</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.51>Are enter'd in the Roman territories,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.52>And with the deepest malice of the war</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.53>Destroy what lies before 'em.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.54>'Tis Aufidius,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.55>Who, hearing of our Marcius' banishment,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.56>Thrusts forth his horns again into the world;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.57>Which were inshell'd when Marcius stood for Rome,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.58>And durst not once peep out.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.59>Come, what talk you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.60>Of Marcius?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.61>Go see this rumourer whipp'd. It cannot be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.62>The Volsces dare break with us.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.63>Cannot be!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.64>We have record that very well it can,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.65>And three examples of the like have been</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.66>Within my age. But reason with the fellow,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.67>Before you punish him, where he heard this,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.68>Lest you shall chance to whip your information</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.69>And beat the messenger who bids beware</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.70>Of what is to be dreaded.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.71>Tell not me:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.72>I know this cannot be.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.73>Not possible.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter a Messenger</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.74>The nobles in great earnestness are going</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.75>All to the senate-house: some news is come</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.76>That turns their countenances.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.77>'Tis this slave;--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.78>Go whip him, 'fore the people's eyes:--his raising;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.79>Nothing but his report.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.80>Yes, worthy sir,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.81>The slave's report is seconded; and more,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.82>More fearful, is deliver'd.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.83>What more fearful?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.84>It is spoke freely out of many mouths--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.85>How probable I do not know--that Marcius,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.86>Join'd with Aufidius, leads a power 'gainst Rome,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.87>And vows revenge as spacious as between</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.88>The young'st and oldest thing.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.89>This is most likely!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.90>Raised only, that the weaker sort may wish</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.91>Good Marcius home again.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.92>The very trick on't.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.93>This is unlikely:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.94>He and Aufidius can no more atone</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.95>Than violentest contrariety.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter a second Messenger</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>Second Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.96>You are sent for to the senate:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.97>A fearful army, led by Caius Marcius</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.98>Associated with Aufidius, rages</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.99>Upon our territories; and have already</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.100>O'erborne their way, consumed with fire, and took</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.101>What lay before them.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter COMINIUS</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>COMINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.102>O, you have made good work!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.103>What news? what news?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>COMINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.104>You have holp to ravish your own daughters and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.105>To melt the city leads upon your pates,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.106>To see your wives dishonour'd to your noses,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.107>What's the news? what's the news?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>COMINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.108>Your temples burned in their cement, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.109>Your franchises, whereon you stood, confined</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.110>Into an auger's bore.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.111>Pray now, your news?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.112>You have made fair work, I fear me.--Pray, your news?--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.113>If Marcius should be join'd with Volscians,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>COMINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.114>If!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.115>He is their god: he leads them like a thing</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.116>Made by some other deity than nature,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.117>That shapes man better; and they follow him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.118>Against us brats, with no less confidence</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.119>Than boys pursuing summer butterflies,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.120>Or butchers killing flies.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.121>You have made good work,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.122>You and your apron-men; you that stood so up much</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.123>on the voice of occupation and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.124>The breath of garlic-eaters!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>COMINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.125>He will shake</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.126>Your Rome about your ears.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.127>As Hercules</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.128>Did shake down mellow fruit.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.129>You have made fair work!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.130>But is this true, sir?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>COMINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.131>Ay; and you'll look pale</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.132>Before you find it other. All the regions</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.133>Do smilingly revolt; and who resist</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.134>Are mock'd for valiant ignorance,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.135>And perish constant fools. Who is't can blame him?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.136>Your enemies and his find something in him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.137>We are all undone, unless</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.138>The noble man have mercy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>COMINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.139>Who shall ask it?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.140>The tribunes cannot do't for shame; the people</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.141>Deserve such pity of him as the wolf</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.142>Does of the shepherds: for his best friends, if they</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.143>Should say 'Be good to Rome,' they charged him even</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.144>As those should do that had deserved his hate,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.145>And therein show'd like enemies.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.146>'Tis true:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.147>If he were putting to my house the brand</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.148>That should consume it, I have not the face</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.149>To say 'Beseech you, cease.' You have made fair hands,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.150>You and your crafts! you have crafted fair!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>COMINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.151>You have brought</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.152>A trembling upon Rome, such as was never</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.153>So incapable of help.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>Both Tribunes</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.154>Say not we brought it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.155>How! Was it we? we loved him but, like beasts</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.156>And cowardly nobles, gave way unto your clusters,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.157>Who did hoot him out o' the city.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>COMINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.158>But I fear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.159>They'll roar him in again. Tullus Aufidius,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.160>The second name of men, obeys his points</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.161>As if he were his officer: desperation</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.162>Is all the policy, strength and defence,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.163>That Rome can make against them.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter a troop of Citizens</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.164>Here come the clusters.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.165>And is Aufidius with him? You are they</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.166>That made the air unwholesome, when you cast</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.167>Your stinking greasy caps in hooting at</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.168>Coriolanus' exile. Now he's coming;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.169>And not a hair upon a soldier's head</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.170>Which will not prove a whip: as many coxcombs</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.171>As you threw caps up will he tumble down,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.172>And pay you for your voices. 'Tis no matter;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.173>if he could burn us all into one coal,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.174>We have deserved it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech61><b>Citizens</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.175>Faith, we hear fearful news.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech62><b>First Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.176>For mine own part,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.177>When I said, banish him, I said 'twas pity.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech63><b>Second Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.178>And so did I.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech64><b>Third Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.179>And so did I; and, to say the truth, so did very</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.180>many of us: that we did, we did for the best; and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.181>though we willingly consented to his banishment, yet</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.182>it was against our will.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech65><b>COMINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.183>Ye re goodly things, you voices!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech66><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.184>You have made</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.185>Good work, you and your cry! Shall's to the Capitol?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech67><b>COMINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.186>O, ay, what else?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt COMINIUS and MENENIUS</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech68><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.187>Go, masters, get you home; be not dismay'd:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.188>These are a side that would be glad to have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.189>This true which they so seem to fear. Go home,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.190>And show no sign of fear.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech69><b>First Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.191>The gods be good to us! Come, masters, let's home.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.192>I ever said we were i' the wrong when we banished</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.193>him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech70><b>Second Citizen</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.194>So did we all. But, come, let's home.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt Citizens</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech71><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.195>I do not like this news.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech72><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.196>Nor I.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech73><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.197>Let's to the Capitol. Would half my wealth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.198>Would buy this for a lie!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech74><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.199>Pray, let us go.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE VII. A camp, at a small distance from Rome.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter AUFIDIUS and his Lieutenant</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>AUFIDIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.1>Do they still fly to the Roman?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>Lieutenant</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.2>I do not know what witchcraft's in him, but</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.3>Your soldiers use him as the grace 'fore meat,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.4>Their talk at table, and their thanks at end;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.5>And you are darken'd in this action, sir,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.6>Even by your own.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>AUFIDIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.7> I cannot help it now,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.8>Unless, by using means, I lame the foot</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.9>Of our design. He bears himself more proudlier,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.10>Even to my person, than I thought he would</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.11>When first I did embrace him: yet his nature</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.12>In that's no changeling; and I must excuse</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.13>What cannot be amended.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>Lieutenant</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.14>Yet I wish, sir,--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.15>I mean for your particular,--you had not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.16>Join'd in commission with him; but either</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.17>Had borne the action of yourself, or else</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.18>To him had left it solely.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>AUFIDIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.19>I understand thee well; and be thou sure,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.20>when he shall come to his account, he knows not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.21>What I can urge against him. Although it seems,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.22>And so he thinks, and is no less apparent</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.23>To the vulgar eye, that he bears all things fairly.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.24>And shows good husbandry for the Volscian state,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.25>Fights dragon-like, and does achieve as soon</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.26>As draw his sword; yet he hath left undone</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.27>That which shall break his neck or hazard mine,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.28>Whene'er we come to our account.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>Lieutenant</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.29>Sir, I beseech you, think you he'll carry Rome?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>AUFIDIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.30>All places yield to him ere he sits down;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.31>And the nobility of Rome are his:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.32>The senators and patricians love him too:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.33>The tribunes are no soldiers; and their people</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.34>Will be as rash in the repeal, as hasty</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.35>To expel him thence. I think he'll be to Rome</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.36>As is the osprey to the fish, who takes it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.37>By sovereignty of nature. First he was</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.38>A noble servant to them; but he could not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.39>Carry his honours even: whether 'twas pride,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.40>Which out of daily fortune ever taints</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.41>The happy man; whether defect of judgment,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.42>To fail in the disposing of those chances</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.43>Which he was lord of; or whether nature,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.44>Not to be other than one thing, not moving</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.45>From the casque to the cushion, but commanding peace</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.46>Even with the same austerity and garb</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.47>As he controll'd the war; but one of these--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.48>As he hath spices of them all, not all,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.49>For I dare so far free him--made him fear'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.50>So hated, and so banish'd: but he has a merit,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.51>To choke it in the utterance. So our virtues</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.52>Lie in the interpretation of the time:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.53>And power, unto itself most commendable,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.54>Hath not a tomb so evident as a chair</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.55>To extol what it hath done.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.56>One fire drives out one fire; one nail, one nail;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.57>Rights by rights falter, strengths by strengths do fail.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.58>Come, let's away. When, Caius, Rome is thine,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.59>Thou art poor'st of all; then shortly art thou mine.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote><p> | |
| <H3>ACT V</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. Rome. A public place.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter MENENIUS, COMINIUS, SICINIUS, BRUTUS, and others</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.1>No, I'll not go: you hear what he hath said</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.2>Which was sometime his general; who loved him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.3>In a most dear particular. He call'd me father:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.4>But what o' that? Go, you that banish'd him;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.5>A mile before his tent fall down, and knee</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.6>The way into his mercy: nay, if he coy'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.7>To hear Cominius speak, I'll keep at home.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>COMINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.8>He would not seem to know me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.9>Do you hear?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>COMINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.10>Yet one time he did call me by my name:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.11>I urged our old acquaintance, and the drops</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.12>That we have bled together. Coriolanus</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.13>He would not answer to: forbad all names;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.14>He was a kind of nothing, titleless,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.15>Till he had forged himself a name o' the fire</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.16>Of burning Rome.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.17>Why, so: you have made good work!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.18>A pair of tribunes that have rack'd for Rome,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.19>To make coals cheap,--a noble memory!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>COMINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.20>I minded him how royal 'twas to pardon</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.21>When it was less expected: he replied,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.22>It was a bare petition of a state</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.23>To one whom they had punish'd.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.24>Very well:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.25>Could he say less?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>COMINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.26>I offer'd to awaken his regard</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.27>For's private friends: his answer to me was,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.28>He could not stay to pick them in a pile</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.29>Of noisome musty chaff: he said 'twas folly,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.30>For one poor grain or two, to leave unburnt,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.31>And still to nose the offence.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.32>For one poor grain or two!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.33>I am one of those; his mother, wife, his child,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.34>And this brave fellow too, we are the grains:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.35>You are the musty chaff; and you are smelt</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.36>Above the moon: we must be burnt for you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.37>Nay, pray, be patient: if you refuse your aid</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.38>In this so never-needed help, yet do not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.39>Upbraid's with our distress. But, sure, if you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.40>Would be your country's pleader, your good tongue,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.41>More than the instant army we can make,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.42>Might stop our countryman.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.43>No, I'll not meddle.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.44>Pray you, go to him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.45>What should I do?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.46>Only make trial what your love can do</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.47>For Rome, towards Marcius.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.48>Well, and say that Marcius</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.49>Return me, as Cominius is return'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.50>Unheard; what then?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.51>But as a discontented friend, grief-shot</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.52>With his unkindness? say't be so?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.53>Yet your good will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.54>must have that thanks from Rome, after the measure</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.55>As you intended well.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.56>I'll undertake 't:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.57>I think he'll hear me. Yet, to bite his lip</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.58>And hum at good Cominius, much unhearts me.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.59>He was not taken well; he had not dined:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.60>The veins unfill'd, our blood is cold, and then</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.61>We pout upon the morning, are unapt</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.62>To give or to forgive; but when we have stuff'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.63>These and these conveyances of our blood</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.64>With wine and feeding, we have suppler souls</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.65>Than in our priest-like fasts: therefore I'll watch him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.66>Till he be dieted to my request,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.67>And then I'll set upon him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>BRUTUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.68>You know the very road into his kindness,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.69>And cannot lose your way.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.70>Good faith, I'll prove him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.71>Speed how it will. I shall ere long have knowledge</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.72>Of my success.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>COMINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.73> He'll never hear him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.74>Not?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>COMINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.75>I tell you, he does sit in gold, his eye</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.76>Red as 'twould burn Rome; and his injury</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.77>The gaoler to his pity. I kneel'd before him;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.78>'Twas very faintly he said 'Rise;' dismiss'd me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.79>Thus, with his speechless hand: what he would do,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.80>He sent in writing after me; what he would not,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.81>Bound with an oath to yield to his conditions:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.82>So that all hope is vain.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.83>Unless his noble mother, and his wife;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.84>Who, as I hear, mean to solicit him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.85>For mercy to his country. Therefore, let's hence,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.86>And with our fair entreaties haste them on.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE II. Entrance of the Volscian camp before Rome.</h3> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.1>Two Sentinels on guard.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter to them, MENENIUS</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>First Senator</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.2>Stay: whence are you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>Second Senator</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.3>Stand, and go back.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.4>You guard like men; 'tis well: but, by your leave,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.5>I am an officer of state, and come</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.6>To speak with Coriolanus.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>First Senator</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.7>From whence?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.8>From Rome.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>First Senator</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.9>You may not pass, you must return: our general</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.10>Will no more hear from thence.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>Second Senator</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.11>You'll see your Rome embraced with fire before</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.12>You'll speak with Coriolanus.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.13>Good my friends,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.14>If you have heard your general talk of Rome,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.15>And of his friends there, it is lots to blanks,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.16>My name hath touch'd your ears it is Menenius.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>First Senator</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.17>Be it so; go back: the virtue of your name</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.18>Is not here passable.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.19>I tell thee, fellow,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.20>The general is my lover: I have been</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.21>The book of his good acts, whence men have read</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.22>His name unparallel'd, haply amplified;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.23>For I have ever verified my friends,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.24>Of whom he's chief, with all the size that verity</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.25>Would without lapsing suffer: nay, sometimes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.26>Like to a bowl upon a subtle ground,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.27>I have tumbled past the throw; and in his praise</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.28>Have almost stamp'd the leasing: therefore, fellow,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.29>I must have leave to pass.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>First Senator</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.30>Faith, sir, if you had told as many lies in his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.31>behalf as you have uttered words in your own, you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.32>should not pass here; no, though it were as virtuous</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.33>to lie as to live chastely. Therefore, go back.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.34>Prithee, fellow, remember my name is Menenius,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.35>always factionary on the party of your general.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>Second Senator</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.36>Howsoever you have been his liar, as you say you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.37>have, I am one that, telling true under him, must</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.38>say, you cannot pass. Therefore, go back.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.39>Has he dined, canst thou tell? for I would not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.40>speak with him till after dinner.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>First Senator</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.41>You are a Roman, are you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.42>I am, as thy general is.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>First Senator</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.43>Then you should hate Rome, as he does. Can you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.44>when you have pushed out your gates the very</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.45>defender of them, and, in a violent popular</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.46>ignorance, given your enemy your shield, think to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.47>front his revenges with the easy groans of old</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.48>women, the virginal palms of your daughters, or with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.49>the palsied intercession of such a decayed dotant as</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.50>you seem to be? Can you think to blow out the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.51>intended fire your city is ready to flame in, with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.52>such weak breath as this? No, you are deceived;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.53>therefore, back to Rome, and prepare for your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.54>execution: you are condemned, our general has sworn</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.55>you out of reprieve and pardon.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.56>Sirrah, if thy captain knew I were here, he would</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.57>use me with estimation.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>Second Senator</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.58>Come, my captain knows you not.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.59>I mean, thy general.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>First Senator</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.60>My general cares not for you. Back, I say, go; lest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.61>I let forth your half-pint of blood; back,--that's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.62>the utmost of your having: back.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.63>Nay, but, fellow, fellow,--</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter CORIOLANUS and AUFIDIUS</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.64>What's the matter?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.65>Now, you companion, I'll say an errand for you:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.66>You shall know now that I am in estimation; you shall</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.67>perceive that a Jack guardant cannot office me from</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.68>my son Coriolanus: guess, but by my entertainment</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.69>with him, if thou standest not i' the state of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.70>hanging, or of some death more long in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.71>spectatorship, and crueller in suffering; behold now</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.72>presently, and swoon for what's to come upon thee.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To CORIOLANUS</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.73>The glorious gods sit in hourly synod about thy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.74>particular prosperity, and love thee no worse than</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.75>thy old father Menenius does! O my son, my son!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.76>thou art preparing fire for us; look thee, here's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.77>water to quench it. I was hardly moved to come to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.78>thee; but being assured none but myself could move</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.79>thee, I have been blown out of your gates with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.80>sighs; and conjure thee to pardon Rome, and thy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.81>petitionary countrymen. The good gods assuage thy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.82>wrath, and turn the dregs of it upon this varlet</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.83>here,--this, who, like a block, hath denied my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.84>access to thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.85>Away!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.86>How! away!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.87>Wife, mother, child, I know not. My affairs</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.88>Are servanted to others: though I owe</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.89>My revenge properly, my remission lies</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.90>In Volscian breasts. That we have been familiar,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.91>Ingrate forgetfulness shall poison, rather</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.92>Than pity note how much. Therefore, be gone.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.93>Mine ears against your suits are stronger than</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.94>Your gates against my force. Yet, for I loved thee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.95>Take this along; I writ it for thy sake</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Gives a letter</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.96>And would have rent it. Another word, Menenius,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.97>I will not hear thee speak. This man, Aufidius,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.98>Was my beloved in Rome: yet thou behold'st!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>AUFIDIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.99>You keep a constant temper.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt CORIOLANUS and AUFIDIUS</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>First Senator</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.100>Now, sir, is your name Menenius?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>Second Senator</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.101>'Tis a spell, you see, of much power: you know the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.102>way home again.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>First Senator</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.103>Do you hear how we are shent for keeping your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.104>greatness back?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>Second Senator</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.105>What cause, do you think, I have to swoon?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.106>I neither care for the world nor your general: for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.107>such things as you, I can scarce think there's any,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.108>ye're so slight. He that hath a will to die by</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.109>himself fears it not from another: let your general</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.110>do his worst. For you, be that you are, long; and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.111>your misery increase with your age! I say to you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.112>as I was said to, Away!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>First Senator</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.113>A noble fellow, I warrant him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>Second Senator</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.114>The worthy fellow is our general: he's the rock, the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.115>oak not to be wind-shaken.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE III. The tent of Coriolanus.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter CORIOLANUS, AUFIDIUS, and others</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.1>We will before the walls of Rome tomorrow</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.2>Set down our host. My partner in this action,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.3>You must report to the Volscian lords, how plainly</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.4>I have borne this business.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>AUFIDIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.5>Only their ends</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.6>You have respected; stopp'd your ears against</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.7>The general suit of Rome; never admitted</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.8>A private whisper, no, not with such friends</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.9>That thought them sure of you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.10>This last old man,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.11>Whom with a crack'd heart I have sent to Rome,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.12>Loved me above the measure of a father;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.13>Nay, godded me, indeed. Their latest refuge</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.14>Was to send him; for whose old love I have,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.15>Though I show'd sourly to him, once more offer'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.16>The first conditions, which they did refuse</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.17>And cannot now accept; to grace him only</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.18>That thought he could do more, a very little</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.19>I have yielded to: fresh embassies and suits,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.20>Nor from the state nor private friends, hereafter</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.21>Will I lend ear to. Ha! what shout is this?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Shout within</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.22>Shall I be tempted to infringe my vow</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.23>In the same time 'tis made? I will not.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter in mourning habits, VIRGILIA, VOLUMNIA, leading young MARCIUS, VALERIA, and Attendants</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.24>My wife comes foremost; then the honour'd mould</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.25>Wherein this trunk was framed, and in her hand</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.26>The grandchild to her blood. But, out, affection!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.27>All bond and privilege of nature, break!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.28>Let it be virtuous to be obstinate.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.29>What is that curt'sy worth? or those doves' eyes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.30>Which can make gods forsworn? I melt, and am not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.31>Of stronger earth than others. My mother bows;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.32>As if Olympus to a molehill should</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.33>In supplication nod: and my young boy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.34>Hath an aspect of intercession, which</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.35>Great nature cries 'Deny not.' let the Volsces</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.36>Plough Rome and harrow Italy: I'll never</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.37>Be such a gosling to obey instinct, but stand,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.38>As if a man were author of himself</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.39>And knew no other kin.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>VIRGILIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.40>My lord and husband!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.41>These eyes are not the same I wore in Rome.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>VIRGILIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.42>The sorrow that delivers us thus changed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.43>Makes you think so.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.44>Like a dull actor now,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.45>I have forgot my part, and I am out,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.46>Even to a full disgrace. Best of my flesh,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.47>Forgive my tyranny; but do not say</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.48>For that 'Forgive our Romans.' O, a kiss</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.49>Long as my exile, sweet as my revenge!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.50>Now, by the jealous queen of heaven, that kiss</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.51>I carried from thee, dear; and my true lip</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.52>Hath virgin'd it e'er since. You gods! I prate,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.53>And the most noble mother of the world</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.54>Leave unsaluted: sink, my knee, i' the earth;</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Kneels</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.55>Of thy deep duty more impression show</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.56>Than that of common sons.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>VOLUMNIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.57>O, stand up blest!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.58>Whilst, with no softer cushion than the flint,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.59>I kneel before thee; and unproperly</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.60>Show duty, as mistaken all this while</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.61>Between the child and parent.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Kneels</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.62>What is this?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.63>Your knees to me? to your corrected son?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.64>Then let the pebbles on the hungry beach</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.65>Fillip the stars; then let the mutinous winds</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.66>Strike the proud cedars 'gainst the fiery sun;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.67>Murdering impossibility, to make</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.68>What cannot be, slight work.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>VOLUMNIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.69>Thou art my warrior;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.70>I holp to frame thee. Do you know this lady?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.71>The noble sister of Publicola,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.72>The moon of Rome, chaste as the icicle</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.73>That's curdied by the frost from purest snow</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.74>And hangs on Dian's temple: dear Valeria!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>VOLUMNIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.75>This is a poor epitome of yours,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.76>Which by the interpretation of full time</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.77>May show like all yourself.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.78>The god of soldiers,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.79>With the consent of supreme Jove, inform</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.80>Thy thoughts with nobleness; that thou mayst prove</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.81>To shame unvulnerable, and stick i' the wars</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.82>Like a great sea-mark, standing every flaw,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.83>And saving those that eye thee!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>VOLUMNIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.84>Your knee, sirrah.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.85>That's my brave boy!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>VOLUMNIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.86>Even he, your wife, this lady, and myself,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.87>Are suitors to you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.88>I beseech you, peace:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.89>Or, if you'ld ask, remember this before:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.90>The thing I have forsworn to grant may never</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.91>Be held by you denials. Do not bid me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.92>Dismiss my soldiers, or capitulate</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.93>Again with Rome's mechanics: tell me not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.94>Wherein I seem unnatural: desire not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.95>To ally my rages and revenges with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.96>Your colder reasons.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>VOLUMNIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.97>O, no more, no more!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.98>You have said you will not grant us any thing;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.99>For we have nothing else to ask, but that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.100>Which you deny already: yet we will ask;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.101>That, if you fail in our request, the blame</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.102>May hang upon your hardness: therefore hear us.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.103>Aufidius, and you Volsces, mark; for we'll</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.104>Hear nought from Rome in private. Your request?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>VOLUMNIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.105>Should we be silent and not speak, our raiment</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.106>And state of bodies would bewray what life</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.107>We have led since thy exile. Think with thyself</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.108>How more unfortunate than all living women</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.109>Are we come hither: since that thy sight,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.110>which should</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.111>Make our eyes flow with joy, hearts dance</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.112>with comforts,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.113>Constrains them weep and shake with fear and sorrow;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.114>Making the mother, wife and child to see</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.115>The son, the husband and the father tearing</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.116>His country's bowels out. And to poor we</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.117>Thine enmity's most capital: thou barr'st us</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.118>Our prayers to the gods, which is a comfort</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.119>That all but we enjoy; for how can we,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.120>Alas, how can we for our country pray.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.121>Whereto we are bound, together with thy victory,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.122>Whereto we are bound? alack, or we must lose</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.123>The country, our dear nurse, or else thy person,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.124>Our comfort in the country. We must find</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.125>An evident calamity, though we had</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.126>Our wish, which side should win: for either thou</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.127>Must, as a foreign recreant, be led</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.128>With manacles thorough our streets, or else</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.129>triumphantly tread on thy country's ruin,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.130>And bear the palm for having bravely shed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.131>Thy wife and children's blood. For myself, son,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.132>I purpose not to wait on fortune till</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.133>These wars determine: if I cannot persuade thee</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.134>Rather to show a noble grace to both parts</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.135>Than seek the end of one, thou shalt no sooner</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.136>March to assault thy country than to tread--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.137>Trust to't, thou shalt not--on thy mother's womb,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.138>That brought thee to this world.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>VIRGILIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.139>Ay, and mine,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.140>That brought you forth this boy, to keep your name</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.141>Living to time.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>Young MARCIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.142>A' shall not tread on me;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.143>I'll run away till I am bigger, but then I'll fight.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.144>Not of a woman's tenderness to be,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.145>Requires nor child nor woman's face to see.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.146>I have sat too long.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Rising</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>VOLUMNIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.147>Nay, go not from us thus.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.148>If it were so that our request did tend</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.149>To save the Romans, thereby to destroy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.150>The Volsces whom you serve, you might condemn us,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.151>As poisonous of your honour: no; our suit</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.152>Is that you reconcile them: while the Volsces</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.153>May say 'This mercy we have show'd;' the Romans,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.154>'This we received;' and each in either side</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.155>Give the all-hail to thee and cry 'Be blest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.156>For making up this peace!' Thou know'st, great son,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.157>The end of war's uncertain, but this certain,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.158>That, if thou conquer Rome, the benefit</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.159>Which thou shalt thereby reap is such a name,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.160>Whose repetition will be dogg'd with curses;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.161>Whose chronicle thus writ: 'The man was noble,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.162>But with his last attempt he wiped it out;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.163>Destroy'd his country, and his name remains</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.164>To the ensuing age abhorr'd.' Speak to me, son:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.165>Thou hast affected the fine strains of honour,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.166>To imitate the graces of the gods;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.167>To tear with thunder the wide cheeks o' the air,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.168>And yet to charge thy sulphur with a bolt</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.169>That should but rive an oak. Why dost not speak?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.170>Think'st thou it honourable for a noble man</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.171>Still to remember wrongs? Daughter, speak you:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.172>He cares not for your weeping. Speak thou, boy:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.173>Perhaps thy childishness will move him more</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.174>Than can our reasons. There's no man in the world</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.175>More bound to 's mother; yet here he lets me prate</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.176>Like one i' the stocks. Thou hast never in thy life</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.177>Show'd thy dear mother any courtesy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.178>When she, poor hen, fond of no second brood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.179>Has cluck'd thee to the wars and safely home,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.180>Loaden with honour. Say my request's unjust,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.181>And spurn me back: but if it be not so,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.182>Thou art not honest; and the gods will plague thee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.183>That thou restrain'st from me the duty which</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.184>To a mother's part belongs. He turns away:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.185>Down, ladies; let us shame him with our knees.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.186>To his surname Coriolanus 'longs more pride</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.187>Than pity to our prayers. Down: an end;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.188>This is the last: so we will home to Rome,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.189>And die among our neighbours. Nay, behold 's:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.190>This boy, that cannot tell what he would have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.191>But kneels and holds up bands for fellowship,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.192>Does reason our petition with more strength</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.193>Than thou hast to deny 't. Come, let us go:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.194>This fellow had a Volscian to his mother;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.195>His wife is in Corioli and his child</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.196>Like him by chance. Yet give us our dispatch:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.197>I am hush'd until our city be a-fire,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.198>And then I'll speak a little.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>He holds her by the hand, silent</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.199>O mother, mother!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.200>What have you done? Behold, the heavens do ope,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.201>The gods look down, and this unnatural scene</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.202>They laugh at. O my mother, mother! O!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.203>You have won a happy victory to Rome;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.204>But, for your son,--believe it, O, believe it,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.205>Most dangerously you have with him prevail'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.206>If not most mortal to him. But, let it come.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.207>Aufidius, though I cannot make true wars,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.208>I'll frame convenient peace. Now, good Aufidius,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.209>Were you in my stead, would you have heard</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.210>A mother less? or granted less, Aufidius?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>AUFIDIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.211>I was moved withal.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.212>I dare be sworn you were:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.213>And, sir, it is no little thing to make</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.214>Mine eyes to sweat compassion. But, good sir,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.215>What peace you'll make, advise me: for my part,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.216>I'll not to Rome, I'll back with you; and pray you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.217>Stand to me in this cause. O mother! wife!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>AUFIDIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.218>[Aside] I am glad thou hast set thy mercy and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.219>thy honour</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.220>At difference in thee: out of that I'll work</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.221>Myself a former fortune.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>The Ladies make signs to CORIOLANUS</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.222>Ay, by and by;</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To VOLUMNIA, VIRGILIA, & c</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.223>But we will drink together; and you shall bear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.224>A better witness back than words, which we,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.225>On like conditions, will have counter-seal'd.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.226>Come, enter with us. Ladies, you deserve</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.227>To have a temple built you: all the swords</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.228>In Italy, and her confederate arms,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.229>Could not have made this peace.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE IV. Rome. A public place.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter MENENIUS and SICINIUS</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.1>See you yond coign o' the Capitol, yond</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.2>corner-stone?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.3>Why, what of that?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.4>If it be possible for you to displace it with your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.5>little finger, there is some hope the ladies of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.6>Rome, especially his mother, may prevail with him.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.7>But I say there is no hope in't: our throats are</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.8>sentenced and stay upon execution.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.9>Is't possible that so short a time can alter the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.10>condition of a man!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.11>There is differency between a grub and a butterfly;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.12>yet your butterfly was a grub. This Marcius is grown</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.13>from man to dragon: he has wings; he's more than a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.14>creeping thing.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.15>He loved his mother dearly.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.16>So did he me: and he no more remembers his mother</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.17>now than an eight-year-old horse. The tartness</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.18>of his face sours ripe grapes: when he walks, he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.19>moves like an engine, and the ground shrinks before</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.20>his treading: he is able to pierce a corslet with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.21>his eye; talks like a knell, and his hum is a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.22>battery. He sits in his state, as a thing made for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.23>Alexander. What he bids be done is finished with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.24>his bidding. He wants nothing of a god but eternity</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.25>and a heaven to throne in.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.26>Yes, mercy, if you report him truly.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.27>I paint him in the character. Mark what mercy his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.28>mother shall bring from him: there is no more mercy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.29>in him than there is milk in a male tiger; that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.30>shall our poor city find: and all this is long of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.31>you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.32>The gods be good unto us!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.33>No, in such a case the gods will not be good unto</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.34>us. When we banished him, we respected not them;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.35>and, he returning to break our necks, they respect not us.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter a Messenger</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.36>Sir, if you'ld save your life, fly to your house:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.37>The plebeians have got your fellow-tribune</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.38>And hale him up and down, all swearing, if</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.39>The Roman ladies bring not comfort home,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.40>They'll give him death by inches.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter a second Messenger</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.41>What's the news?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>Second Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.42>Good news, good news; the ladies have prevail'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.43>The Volscians are dislodged, and Marcius gone:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.44>A merrier day did never yet greet Rome,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.45>No, not the expulsion of the Tarquins.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.46>Friend,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.47>Art thou certain this is true? is it most certain?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>Second Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.48>As certain as I know the sun is fire:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.49>Where have you lurk'd, that you make doubt of it?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.50>Ne'er through an arch so hurried the blown tide,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.51>As the recomforted through the gates. Why, hark you!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Trumpets; hautboys; drums beat; all together</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.52>The trumpets, sackbuts, psalteries and fifes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.53>Tabours and cymbals and the shouting Romans,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.54>Make the sun dance. Hark you!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>A shout within</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>MENENIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.55>This is good news:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.56>I will go meet the ladies. This Volumnia</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.57>Is worth of consuls, senators, patricians,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.58>A city full; of tribunes, such as you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.59>A sea and land full. You have pray'd well to-day:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.60>This morning for ten thousand of your throats</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.61>I'd not have given a doit. Hark, how they joy!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Music still, with shouts</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.62>First, the gods bless you for your tidings; next,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.63>Accept my thankfulness.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>Second Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.64>Sir, we have all</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.65>Great cause to give great thanks.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.66>They are near the city?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>Second Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.67>Almost at point to enter.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>SICINIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.68>We will meet them,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.69>And help the joy.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE V. The same. A street near the gate.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter two Senators with VOLUMNIA, VIRGILIA, VALERIA, & c. passing over the stage, followed by Patricians and others</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>First Senator</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.1>Behold our patroness, the life of Rome!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.2>Call all your tribes together, praise the gods,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.3>And make triumphant fires; strew flowers before them:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.4>Unshout the noise that banish'd Marcius,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.5>Repeal him with the welcome of his mother;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.6>Cry 'Welcome, ladies, welcome!'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>All</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.7>Welcome, ladies, Welcome!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>A flourish with drums and trumpets. Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE VI. Antium. A public place.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter TULLUS AUFIDIUS, with Attendants</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>AUFIDIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.1>Go tell the lords o' the city I am here:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.2>Deliver them this paper: having read it,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.3>Bid them repair to the market place; where I,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.4>Even in theirs and in the commons' ears,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.5>Will vouch the truth of it. Him I accuse</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.6>The city ports by this hath enter'd and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.7>Intends to appear before the people, hoping</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.8>To purge herself with words: dispatch.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt Attendants</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Enter three or four Conspirators of AUFIDIUS' faction</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.9>Most welcome!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>First Conspirator</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.10>How is it with our general?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>AUFIDIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.11>Even so</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.12>As with a man by his own alms empoison'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.13>And with his charity slain.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>Second Conspirator</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.14>Most noble sir,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.15>If you do hold the same intent wherein</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.16>You wish'd us parties, we'll deliver you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.17>Of your great danger.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>AUFIDIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.18>Sir, I cannot tell:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.19>We must proceed as we do find the people.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>Third Conspirator</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.20>The people will remain uncertain whilst</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.21>'Twixt you there's difference; but the fall of either</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.22>Makes the survivor heir of all.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>AUFIDIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.23>I know it;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.24>And my pretext to strike at him admits</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.25>A good construction. I raised him, and I pawn'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.26>Mine honour for his truth: who being so heighten'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.27>He water'd his new plants with dews of flattery,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.28>Seducing so my friends; and, to this end,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.29>He bow'd his nature, never known before</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.30>But to be rough, unswayable and free.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>Third Conspirator</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.31>Sir, his stoutness</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.32>When he did stand for consul, which he lost</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.33>By lack of stooping,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>AUFIDIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.34>That I would have spoke of:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.35>Being banish'd for't, he came unto my hearth;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.36>Presented to my knife his throat: I took him;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.37>Made him joint-servant with me; gave him way</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.38>In all his own desires; nay, let him choose</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.39>Out of my files, his projects to accomplish,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.40>My best and freshest men; served his designments</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.41>In mine own person; holp to reap the fame</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.42>Which he did end all his; and took some pride</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.43>To do myself this wrong: till, at the last,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.44>I seem'd his follower, not partner, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.45>He waged me with his countenance, as if</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.46>I had been mercenary.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>First Conspirator</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.47>So he did, my lord:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.48>The army marvell'd at it, and, in the last,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.49>When he had carried Rome and that we look'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.50>For no less spoil than glory,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>AUFIDIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.51>There was it:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.52>For which my sinews shall be stretch'd upon him.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.53>At a few drops of women's rheum, which are</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.54>As cheap as lies, he sold the blood and labour</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.55>Of our great action: therefore shall he die,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.56>And I'll renew me in his fall. But, hark!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Drums and trumpets sound, with great shouts of the People</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>First Conspirator</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.57>Your native town you enter'd like a post,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.58>And had no welcomes home: but he returns,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.59>Splitting the air with noise.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>Second Conspirator</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.60>And patient fools,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.61>Whose children he hath slain, their base throats tear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.62>With giving him glory.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>Third Conspirator</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.63>Therefore, at your vantage,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.64>Ere he express himself, or move the people</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.65>With what he would say, let him feel your sword,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.66>Which we will second. When he lies along,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.67>After your way his tale pronounced shall bury</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.68>His reasons with his body.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>AUFIDIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.69>Say no more:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.70>Here come the lords.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter the Lords of the city</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>All The Lords</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.71>You are most welcome home.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>AUFIDIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.72>I have not deserved it.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.73>But, worthy lords, have you with heed perused</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.74>What I have written to you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>Lords</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.75>We have.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>First Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.76>And grieve to hear't.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.77>What faults he made before the last, I think</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.78>Might have found easy fines: but there to end</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.79>Where he was to begin and give away</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.80>The benefit of our levies, answering us</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.81>With our own charge, making a treaty where</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.82>There was a yielding,--this admits no excuse.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>AUFIDIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.83>He approaches: you shall hear him.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter CORIOLANUS, marching with drum and colours; commoners being with him</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.84>Hail, lords! I am return'd your soldier,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.85>No more infected with my country's love</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.86>Than when I parted hence, but still subsisting</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.87>Under your great command. You are to know</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.88>That prosperously I have attempted and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.89>With bloody passage led your wars even to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.90>The gates of Rome. Our spoils we have brought home</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.91>Do more than counterpoise a full third part</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.92>The charges of the action. We have made peace</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.93>With no less honour to the Antiates</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.94>Than shame to the Romans: and we here deliver,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.95>Subscribed by the consuls and patricians,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.96>Together with the seal o' the senate, what</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.97>We have compounded on.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>AUFIDIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.98>Read it not, noble lords;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.99>But tell the traitor, in the high'st degree</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.100>He hath abused your powers.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.101>Traitor! how now!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>AUFIDIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.102> Ay, traitor, Marcius!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.103>Marcius!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>AUFIDIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.104>Ay, Marcius, Caius Marcius: dost thou think</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.105>I'll grace thee with that robbery, thy stol'n name</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.106>Coriolanus in Corioli?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.107>You lords and heads o' the state, perfidiously</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.108>He has betray'd your business, and given up,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.109>For certain drops of salt, your city Rome,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.110>I say 'your city,' to his wife and mother;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.111>Breaking his oath and resolution like</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.112>A twist of rotten silk, never admitting</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.113>Counsel o' the war, but at his nurse's tears</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.114>He whined and roar'd away your victory,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.115>That pages blush'd at him and men of heart</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.116>Look'd wondering each at other.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.117>Hear'st thou, Mars?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>AUFIDIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.118>Name not the god, thou boy of tears!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.119>Ha!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>AUFIDIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.120>No more.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.121>Measureless liar, thou hast made my heart</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.122>Too great for what contains it. Boy! O slave!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.123>Pardon me, lords, 'tis the first time that ever</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.124>I was forced to scold. Your judgments, my grave lords,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.125>Must give this cur the lie: and his own notion--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.126>Who wears my stripes impress'd upon him; that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.127>Must bear my beating to his grave--shall join</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.128>To thrust the lie unto him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>First Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.129>Peace, both, and hear me speak.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.130>Cut me to pieces, Volsces; men and lads,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.131>Stain all your edges on me. Boy! false hound!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.132>If you have writ your annals true, 'tis there,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.133>That, like an eagle in a dove-cote, I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.134>Flutter'd your Volscians in Corioli:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.135>Alone I did it. Boy!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>AUFIDIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.136>Why, noble lords,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.137>Will you be put in mind of his blind fortune,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.138>Which was your shame, by this unholy braggart,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.139>'Fore your own eyes and ears?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>All Conspirators</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.140>Let him die for't.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>All The People</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.141>'Tear him to pieces.' 'Do it presently.' 'He kill'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.142>my son.' 'My daughter.' 'He killed my cousin</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.143>Marcus.' 'He killed my father.'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>Second Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.144>Peace, ho! no outrage: peace!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.145>The man is noble and his fame folds-in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.146>This orb o' the earth. His last offences to us</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.147>Shall have judicious hearing. Stand, Aufidius,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.148>And trouble not the peace.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.149>O that I had him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.150>With six Aufidiuses, or more, his tribe,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.151>To use my lawful sword!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>AUFIDIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.152>Insolent villain!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>All Conspirators</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.153>Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill him!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>The Conspirators draw, and kill CORIOLANUS: AUFIDIUS stands on his body</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>Lords</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.154>Hold, hold, hold, hold!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>AUFIDIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.155>My noble masters, hear me speak.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>First Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.156>O Tullus,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>Second Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.157>Thou hast done a deed whereat valour will weep.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>Third Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.158>Tread not upon him. Masters all, be quiet;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.159>Put up your swords.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>AUFIDIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.160>My lords, when you shall know--as in this rage,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.161>Provoked by him, you cannot--the great danger</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.162>Which this man's life did owe you, you'll rejoice</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.163>That he is thus cut off. Please it your honours</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.164>To call me to your senate, I'll deliver</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.165>Myself your loyal servant, or endure</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.166>Your heaviest censure.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>First Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.167>Bear from hence his body;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.168>And mourn you for him: let him be regarded</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.169>As the most noble corse that ever herald</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.170>Did follow to his urn.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>Second Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.171>His own impatience</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.172>Takes from Aufidius a great part of blame.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.173>Let's make the best of it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>AUFIDIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.174>My rage is gone;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.175>And I am struck with sorrow. Take him up.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.176>Help, three o' the chiefest soldiers; I'll be one.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.177>Beat thou the drum, that it speak mournfully:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.178>Trail your steel pikes. Though in this city he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.179>Hath widow'd and unchilded many a one,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.180>Which to this hour bewail the injury,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.6.181>Yet he shall have a noble memory. Assist.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt, bearing the body of CORIOLANUS. A dead march sounded</i></p> | |
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