They have chose a consul that will from them take Sic. Let them assemble, And on a safer judgement all revoke Your ignorant election: enforce his pride, Bru. Sic. To voice him consul: lay the fault on us. Bru. Ay, spare us not. Say we read lectures to you, How youngly he began to serve his country, How long continued; and what stock he springs of: came That Ancus Marcius, Numa's daughter's son, Who, after great Hostilius, here was king; 230 227. enforce, lay stress upon. 239. affections, inclinations. 240 250 And nobly named, so twice being Censor, Sic. One thus descended, That hath beside well in his person wrought Bru. Say, you ne'er had done 't Harp on that still-but by our putting on : And presently, when you have drawn your number, 260 This mutiny were better put in hazard, If, as his nature is, he fall in rage With their refusal, both observe and answer To the Capitol, come: Sic. 251. Many emendations have been suggested, and the Camb. edd. reconstruct the sentence, making two lines of it. Prof. Littledale proposes a comma at [Exeunt. 270 'being,' which gives a harsh, but possible, sense. His ances tor was a Censorinus. 256. Scaling, weighing. 259. putting on, instigation. Cornets. ACT III. SCENE I. Rome. A street. Enter CORIOLANUS, MENENIUS, all the Gentry, COMINIUS, TITUS LARTIUS, and other Senators. Cor. Tullus Aufidius then had made new head? Lart. He had, my lord; and that it was which caused Our swifter composition. Cor. So then the Volsces stand but as at first, Ready, when time shall prompt them, to make road Upon's again. Lart. On safe-guard he came to me; and did curse Against the Volsces, for they had so vilely Yielded the town: he is retired to Antium. Cor. Spoke he of me? Lart. Cor. He did, my lord. How? what? Lart. How often he had met you, sword to sword; That of all things upon the earth he hated Your person most; that he would pawn his fortunes To hopeless restitution, so he might Be call'd your vanquisher. 6. worn, worn out. ΙΟ Cor. Lart. At Antium. At Antium lives he? Cor. I wish I had a cause to seek him there, To oppose his hatred fully. Welcome home. Enter SICINIUS and BRUTUS. Behold, these are the tribunes of the people, The tongues o' the common mouth: I do despise them; For they do prank them in authority, Against all noble sufferance. Sic. Cor. Ha! what is that? Pass no further. Bru. It will be dangerous to go on: no further. Men. The matter? Com. Hath he not pass'd the noble and the common? Bru. Cominius, no. Cor. Have I had children's voices? First Sen. Tribunes, give way; he shall to the Must these have voices, that can yield them now And straight disclaim their tongues? What are your offices? You being their mouths, why rule you not their teeth? Have you not set them on? Men. Be calm, be calm. Cor. It is a purposed thing, and grows by plot, To curb the will of the nobility: Suffer't, and live with such as cannot rule 20 30 40 Nor ever will be ruled. Bru. Call 't not a plot : The people cry you mock'd them; and of late, Time-pleasers, flatterers, foes to nobleness. Bru. Cor. Have you inform'd them sithence? Not to them all. How! I inform them! Not unlike, Com. You are like to do such business. Each way, to better yours. Cor. Why then should I be consul? By yond clouds, Let me deserve so ill as you, and make me Your fellow tribune. Sic. You show too much of that For which the people stir: if you will pass To where you are bound, you must inquire your way, Which you are out of, with a gentler spirit, Or never be so noble as a consul, Nor yoke with him for tribune. Men. Let's be calm. This Com. The people are abused; set on. paltering Becomes not Rome, nor has Coriolanus Deserved this so dishonour'd rub, laid falsely I' the plain way of his merit. Cor. Tell me of corn! This was my speech, and I will speak 't again Men. Not now, not now. 58. abused, deceived. 60. rub, check (properly, at 50 60 bowls, an impediment which de flected the bowl from its course). |