Sic. Anfwer to us. Cor. Say then: 'tis true, I ought fo. [take Sic. We charge you, that you have contriv'd to Men. Nay; temperately: Your promise. As I do pray the gods. (As much as in him lies) from time to time Envy'd 4 against the people, feeking means To pluck away their power; as 5 now at laft 25| Given hoftile ftrokes, and that not in the prefence Of dreaded juftice, but on the ministers 30 35 That do diftribute it; In the name o' the people, Even from this inftant, banish him our city; From off the rock Tarpeian, never more To enter our Rome gates: I' the people's name, All. It fhall be fo, it fhall be fo; let him away: I have been conful, and can shew from Rome, 150 Sic. Mark you this, people? 55 All. To the rock with him! to the rock with him! We need not lay new matter to his charge: Sic. We know your drift: Speak what? All. It fhall be fo, it fhall be fo. Cor. You common cry of curs! whofe breath I hate i. e. would bear being called a knave as often as would fill out a volume. 2 Envy is here taken at large for malignity, or ill intention. with figns of hatred to the people. Not ftands again for not only. dear wife. 3i.e. all office eftallifhed and fettled by time. 4 i. e. behaved 5 As, in this inftance, would feem to have the power of as well 7 i. e. I love my country beyond the rate at which I value my I shall be lov'd, when I am lack'd. Nay, mother, As 'tis to laugh at them.-My mother, youwot well, [fon Makes fear'd, and talk'd of more than feen) your IV. . With cautelous baits and practice 4. Vol. My first 5 fon, 20 Whither wilt thou go? Take good Cominius 25 Com. I'll follow thee a month, devife with thee Cor. Fare ye well: Thou haft years upon thee; and thou art too full 35 That's yet unbruis'd; bring me but out at gate.- Abated is dejected, fubdued, depreffed in fpirits. 2 The fenfe is, When fortune ftrikes her hardest blows, to be wounded, and yet continue calm, requires a generous policy. He calls this calmness cunning, because it is the effect of reflection and philofophy. 3 i. e. foolish. falfe tricks, and treason. 5 First, i. e. nobleft, and most eminent of men. anallay'd: a metaphor taken from trying gold on the touchstone. 4. e. by artful and i. e. of true metal Sice [rabble: Vol. I would he had? 'Twas you incens'd the As I can of thofe myfteries which heaven Bru. Pray, let us go. Vol. Now, pray, fir, get you gone: You have done a brave deed. Ere you go, hear this: The meaneft houfe in Rome; fo far, my fon, Sic. Why stay we to be baited With one that wants her wits? 201 But to confirm my curfes! Could I meet 'em 727 [with me? You'll fup Men. You have told them home, SCENE III. Between Rome and Antium. Enter a Roman, and a Volce. [Exeunt. Rom. I know you well, fir, and you know me : your name, I think, is Adrian. Vol. It is fo, fir: truly, I have forgot you. Rom. The fame, fir. Vel. You had more beard, when I last saw you; but your favour is well appear'd by your tongue. What's the news in Rome? I have a note from 25 the Volcian ftate, to find you out there: You have well faved me a day's journey. 30 Rom. There hath been in Rome strange infurrection: the people against the fenators, patricians, and nobles. Vol. Hath been! Is it ended then? Our state thinks not fo; they are in a most warlike preparation, and hope to come upon them in the heat of their divifion. Rom. The main blaze of it is past, but a small 35thing would make it flame again. For the nobles receive fo to heart the banishment of that worthy Coriolanus, that they are in a ripe aptnefs, to take all power from the people, and to pluck from them their tribunes for ever. This lies glowing, 40I can tell you, and is almoft mature for the violent breaking out. Vol. Coriolanus banish'd? Rom. Banish'd, fir. Vol. You will be welcome with this intelli45 gence, Nicanor. Rom. The day ferves well for them now. I have heard it faid, The fittest time to corrupt a man's wife, is when he's fallen out with her hufband. Your noble Tullus Aufidius will appear 50well in thefe wars, his great oppofer Coriolanus being now in no request of his country. Vol. He cannot choofe. I am most fortunate, thus accidentally to encounter you: You have ended my bufinefs, and I will merrily accompany you 55 home. Rom. I fhall, between this and fupper, tell you more ftrange things from Rome; all tending to the good of their adverfaries. Have you an army [ready, fay you? 1 Dr. Johnson here remarks, that the word mankind is ufed maliciously by the first speaker, and taken perverfely by the second. A mankind woman is a woman with the roughness of a man, and, in an aggravated fenfe, a woman ferocious, violent, and eager to fhed blood. In this fenfe Sicinius asks Volumnia, if the be mankind. She takes mankind for a human creature, and accordingly cries out: “ Note but this fool.-Was not a man my father?" 2. e. cunning enough. 3A 4 On a diffention of a doit, break out SCENE V. A Hall in Aufidius's Houfe. 45 [Exit. 50 I Serv. Wine, wine, wine! What fervice is here! I think our fellows are asleep. Enter another Serving-man. [Exit. 2 Ser. Where's Cotus? my mafter calls for 55 him. Cotus! Enter Coriolanus. [Exit. Cor. A goodly houfe: The feaft fmells well: but I Appear not like a guest. Cor. Follow your function, go, And batten on cold bits. [Pufbes bim away. 3 Serv. What, will you not? Pr'ythee, tell my mafter what a ftrange gueft he has here. 2 Str. And I fhall. 3 Serv. Where dwell'st thou ? Cor. Under the canopy. 3 Serv. Under the canopy? Cor. Ay. 3 Serv. Where's that? Cor. I' the city of kites and crows. [Exit. 3 Serv. I' the city of kites and crows?-What an afs it is?-Then thou dwell'ft with daws too? Cor. No, I ferve not thy master. 3 Serv. How, fir! Do you meddle with my master? Cor. Ay; 'tis an honefter fervice, than to meddle with thy mistress: hence! Thou prat'ft, and prat'ft; ferve with thy trencher, 2 Serv. Here, fir; I'd have beaten him like a dog, but for disturbing the lords within. Auf. Whence comeft thou? what wouldeft Why fpeak'ft not? Speak, man: What's thy name? Not yet thou know'ft me, and feeing me, doft not 160l Commands me name myself. That is, though not actually encamped, yet already in pay. To entertain an army is to take them into pay. 2 Companion was formerly ufed in the fame fenfe as we now ufe the word fellow. Auf. Auf. What is thy name? Cor. A name unmufical to the Volces' ears, And harsh in found to thine. Auf. Say, what's thy name? Thou haft a grim appearance, and thy face I had fear'd death, of all the men i' the world And make my misery serve thy turn; fo use it, Thou dar'ft not this, and that to prove more fortunes Auf. O Marcius, Marcius, [heart Each word thou haft spoke hath weeded from my Should from yon cloud speak divine things, and fay, And fearr'd the moon with splinters! Here I clip The anvil of my fword; and do contest As hotly and as nobly with thy love, As ever in ambitious ftrength I did 5 Sigh'd truer breath; but that I fee thee here, We have a power on foot; and I had purpose 15 Had we no quarrel elfe to Rome, but that 25 30 Auf. Therefore, moft abfolute fir, if thou wilt Whether to knock against the gates of Rome, To fright them, ere destroy. But come in: 40 1 Serv. Here's a strange alteration! 2 Serv. By my hand, I had thought to have ftrucken him with a cudgel; and yet my mind gave me, his clothes made a false report of him. I Serv. What an arm he has! He turn'd me about with his finger and his thumb, as one would 45 fet up a top. 2 Serv. Nay, I knew by his face that there was fomething in him: He had, fir, a kind of face, methought,-I cannot tell how to term it. 1 Serv. He had fo; looking, as it were,50Would I were hang'd, but I thought there was more in him than I could think. 2 Serv. So did I, I'll be fworn: He is fimply the rareft man i' the world. 1 Serv. I think he is: but a greater foldier 55 than he, you wot one. 2 Serv. Who? my master? 1 Serv. Nay, it's no matter for that. 2 Serv. Worth fix of him. 1 Serv. Nay, not fo neither: but I take him to Contend against thy valour. Know thou first, 60 be the greater foldier. I lov'd the maid I marry'd; never man 1 Memory for memorial. territory. 2 Serv. 'Faith, look you, one cannot tell how 2 i. e. refentment or revenge. 3 i. e. difgraceful diminutions of to |