Chapter XV: Act IV: SCENE I. Rome. Before a gate of the city

_Enter_ CORIOLANUS, VOLUMNIA, VIRGILIA, MENENIUS, COMINIUS,
_with the young Nobility of Rome_.[3414]

_Cor._ Come, leave your tears; a brief farewell: the beast
With many heads butts me away. Nay, mother,
Where is your ancient courage? you were used
To say extremity was the trier of spirits;[3415]
That common chances common men could bear;[3416] 5
That when the sea was calm all boats alike
Show'd mastership in floating; fortune's blows,[3417]
When most struck home, being gentle wounded, craves[3417][3418][3419]
A noble cunning: you were used to load me[3419][3420]
With precepts that would make invincible 10
The heart that conn'd them.

_Vir._ O heavens! O heavens!

_Cor._ Nay, I prithee, woman,--[3421]

_Vol._ Now the red pestilence strike all trades in Rome,
And occupations perish!

_Cor._ What, what, what!
I shall be loved when I am lack'd. Nay, mother, 15
Resume that spirit, when you were wont to say,
If you had been the wife of Hercules,
Six of his labours you'ld have done, and saved
Your husband so much sweat. Cominius,
Droop not; adieu. Farewell, my wife, my mother: 20
I'll do well yet. Thou old and true Menenius,
Thy tears are salter than a younger man's,
And venomous to thine eyes. My sometime general,
I have seen thee stern, and thou hast oft beheld[3422]
Heart-hardening spectacles; tell these sad women, 25
'Tis fond to wail inevitable strokes,
As 'tis to laugh at 'em. My mother, you wot well[3423]
My hazards still have been your solace: and
Believe 't not lightly--though I go alone,
Like to a lonely dragon, that his fen[3424] 30
Makes fear'd and talk'd of more than seen--your son
Will or exceed the common, or be caught[3425]
With cautelous baits and practice.

_Vol._ My first son,[3426]
Whither wilt thou go? Take good Cominius[3427]
With thee awhile: determine on some course,[3428] 35
More than a wild exposture to each chance[3429]
That starts i' the way before thee.

_Cor._ O the gods![3430]

_Com._ I'll follow thee a month, devise with thee
Where thou shalt rest, that thou mayst hear of us
And we of thee: so, if the time thrust forth 40
A cause for thy repeal, we shall not send
O'er the vast world to seek a single man,
And lose advantage, which doth ever cool
I' the absence of the needer.[3431]

_Cor._ Fare ye well:
Thou hast years upon thee; and thou art too full[3432] 45
Of the wars' surfeits, to go rove with one[3433]
That's yet unbruised: bring me but out at gate.
Come, my sweet wife, my dearest mother, and
My friends of noble touch, when I am forth,
Bid me farewell, and smile. I pray you, come. 50
While I remain above the ground, you shall
Hear from me still, and never of me aught
But what is like me formerly.

_Men._ That's worthily
As any ear can hear. Come, let's not weep.
If I could shake off but one seven years 55
From these old arms and legs, by the good gods,
I'ld with thee every foot.

_Cor._ Give me thy hand:
Come. [_Exeunt._[3434]

SCENE II. _The same. A street near the gate._[3435]

_Enter the two Tribunes_, SICINIUS _and_ BRUTUS, _with the_ Ædile.

_Sic._ Bid them all home; he's gone, and we'll no further.
The nobility are vex'd, whom we see have sided[3436]
In his behalf.

_Bru._ Now we have shown our power,
Let us seem humbler after it is done
Than when it was a-doing.

_Sic._ Bid them home: 5
Say their great enemy is gone and they
Stand in their ancient strength.

_Bru._ Dismiss them home. [_Exit Ædile._[3437][3438]
Here comes his mother.[3437]

_Enter_ VOLUMNIA, VIRGILIA, _and_ MENENIUS.[3439]

_Sic._ Let's not meet her.

_Bru._ Why?

_Sic._ They say she's mad.[3440]

_Bru._ They have ta'en note of us: keep on your way.[3440] 10

_Vol._ O, ye're well met: the hoarded plague o' the gods[3441][3442]
Requite your love![3442][3443]

_Men._ Peace, peace; be not so loud.

_Vol._ If that I could for weeping, you should hear,--
Nay, and you shall hear some. [_To Brutus_] Will you be gone?[3444]

_Vir._ [_To Sicinius_] You shall stay too: I would I had
the power[3445][3446] 15
To say so to my husband.[3446][3447]

_Sic._ Are you mankind?

_Vol._ Ay, fool; is that a shame? Note but this fool.
Was not a man my father? Hadst thou foxship
To banish him that struck more blows for Rome[3448]
Than thou hast spoken words?[3449]

_Sic._ O blessed heavens! 20

_Vol._ Moe noble blows than ever thou wise words;[3450]
And for Rome's good. I'll tell thee what; yet go:[3451]
Nay, but thou shalt stay too: I would my son
Were in Arabia, and thy tribe before him,
His good sword in his hand.

_Sic._ What then?

_Vir._ What then![3452][3453] 25
He'ld make an end of thy posterity.[3452][3453]

_Vol._ Bastards and all.[3452]
Good man, the wounds that he does bear for Rome![3452]

_Men._ Come, come, peace.

_Sic._ I would he had continued to his country 30
As he began, and not unknit himself
The noble knot he made.[3454]

_Bru._ I would he had.

_Vol._ 'I would he had!' 'Twas you incensed the rabble;
Cats, that can judge as fitly of his worth[3455]
As I can of those mysteries which heaven 35
Will not have earth to know.

_Bru._ Pray, let us go.[3456]

_Vol._ Now, pray, sir, get you gone:
You have done a brave deed. Ere you go, hear this:[3457]
As far as doth the Capitol exceed
The meanest house in Rome, so far my son-- 40
This lady's husband here, this, do you see?--
Whom you have banish'd, does exceed you all.

_Bru._ Well, well, we'll leave you.

_Sic._ Why stay we to be baited[3458]
With one that wants her wits?

_Vol._ Take my prayers with you.

[_Exeunt Tribunes._[3459]

I would the gods had nothing else to do[3460] 45
But to confirm my curses! Could I meet 'em[3461]
But once a-day, it would unclog my heart
Of what lies heavy to 't.

_Men._ You have told them home;[3462][3463]
And, by my troth, you have cause. You'll sup with me?[3462][3464]

_Vol._ Anger's my meat; I sup upon myself, 50
And so shall starve with feeding. Come, let's go:[3465]
Leave this faint puling, and lament as I do,[3466]
In anger, Juno-like. Come, come, come.[3467]

[_Exeunt Vol. and Vir._[3468]

_Men._ Fie, fie, fie! [_Exit._[3467][3469]

SCENE III. _A highway between Rome and Antium._

_Enter a_ Roman _and a_ Volsce, _meeting_.[3470]

_Rom._ I know you well, sir, and you know me: your
name, I think, is Adrian.

_Vols._ It is so, sir: truly, I have forgot you.

_Rom._ I am a Roman; and my services are, as you are,[3471]
against 'em: know you me yet?[3472] 5

_Vols._ Nicanor? no.[3473]

_Rom._ The same, sir.

_Vols._ You had more beard when I last saw you; but
your favour is well appeared by your tongue. What's the[3474]
news in Rome? I have a note from the Volscian state, to 10
find you out there: you have well saved me a day's journey.[3475]

_Rom._ There hath been in Rome strange insurrections;[3476]
the people against the senators, patricians and nobles.

_Vols._ Hath been! is it ended then? Our state thinks[3477]
not so: they are in a most warlike preparation, and hope 15
to come upon them in the heat of their division.

_Rom._ The main blaze of it is past, but a small thing
would make it flame again: for the nobles receive so to
heart the banishment of that worthy Coriolanus, that they
are in a ripe aptness to take all power from the people and 20
to pluck from them their tribunes for ever. This lies glowing,
I can tell you, and is almost mature for the violent
breaking out.

_Vols._ Coriolanus banished!

_Rom._ Banished, sir. 25

_Vols._ You will be welcome with this intelligence,
Nicanor.

_Rom._ The day serves well for them now. I have heard
it said, the fittest time to corrupt a man's wife is when she's
fallen out with her husband. Your noble Tullus Aufidius 30
will appear well in these wars, his great opposer, Coriolanus,[3478]
being now in no request of his country.

_Vols._ He cannot choose. I am most fortunate, thus
accidentally to encounter you: you have ended my business,
and I will merrily accompany you home. 35

_Rom._ I shall, between this and supper, tell you most
strange things from Rome; all tending to the good of their
adversaries. Have you an army ready, say you?

_Vols._ A most royal one; the centurions and their
charges, distinctly billeted, already in the entertainment, 40
and to be on foot at an hour's warning.

_Rom._ I am joyful to hear of their readiness, and am
the man, I think, that shall set them in present action. So,
sir, heartily well met, and most glad of your company.

_Vols._ You take my part from me, sir; I have the most[3479] 45
cause to be glad of yours.

_Rom._ Well, let us go together. [_Exeunt._

SCENE IV. _Antium. Before Aufidius's house._[3480]

_Enter_ CORIOLANUS _in mean apparel, disguised and muffled_.

_Cor._ A goodly city is this Antium. City,
'Tis I that made thy widows: many an heir
Of these fair edifices 'fore my wars[3481]
Have I heard groan and drop: then know me not;
Lest that thy wives with spits, and boys with stones,[3482] 5
In puny battle slay me.

_Enter a_ Citizen.[3483]

Save you, sir.

_Cit._ And you.

_Cor._ Direct me, if it be your will,[3484]
Where great Aufidius lies: is he in Antium?[3484]

_Cit._ He is, and feasts the nobles of the state[3484]
At his house this night.[3484]

_Cor._ Which is his house, beseech you?[3485] 10

_Cit._ This, here, before you.

_Cor._ Thank you, sir: farewell.

[_Exit Citizen._

O world, thy slippery turns! Friends now fast sworn,
Whose double bosoms seem to wear one heart,[3486]
Whose hours, whose bed, whose meal and exercise[3487]
Are still together, who twin, as 'twere, in love[3488] 15
Unseparable, shall within this hour,
On a dissension of a doit, break out
To bitterest enmity: so, fellest foes,
Whose passions and whose plots have broke their sleep
To take the one the other, by some chance, 20
Some trick not worth an egg, shall grow dear friends
And interjoin their issues. So with me:
My birth-place hate I, and my love's upon[3489]
This enemy town. I'll enter: if he slay me,[3490]
He does fair justice; if he give me way, 25
I'll do his country service. [_Exit._

SCENE V. _The same. A hall in Aufidius's house._[3491]

_Music within. Enter a_ Servingman.

_First Serv._ Wine, wine, wine!--What service is here!
I think our fellows are asleep. [_Exit._[3492]

_Enter another_ Servingman.

_Sec. Serv._ Where's Cotus? my master calls for him.[3493]
Cotus! [_Exit._

_Enter_ CORIOLANUS.

_Cor._ A goodly house: the feast smells well; but I[3494][3495] 5
Appear not like a guest.[3494][3496]

_Re-enter the first_ Servingman.[3497]

_First Serv._ What would you have, friend? whence are
you? Here's no place for you: pray, go to the door. [_Exit._[3498]

_Cor._ I have deserved no better entertainment,[3499]
In being Coriolanus.[3499] 10

_Re-enter second_ Servingman.[3500]

_Sec. Serv._ Whence are you, sir? Has the porter his
eyes in his head, that he gives entrance to such companions?
Pray, get you out.

_Cor._ Away!

_Sec. Serv._ 'Away!' get you away. 15

_Cor._ Now thou'rt troublesome.[3501]

_Sec. Serv._ Are you so brave? I'll have you talked
with anon.[3502]

_Enter a third_ Servingman. _The first meets him._[3503]

_Third Serv._ What fellow's this?

_First Serv._ A strange one as ever I looked on: I cannot[3504] 20
get him out o' the house: prithee, call my master to him.

[_Retires._[3505]

_Third Serv._ What have you to do here, fellow? Pray
you, avoid the house.

_Cor._ Let me but stand; I will not hurt your hearth.

_Third Serv._ What are you? 25

_Cor._ A gentleman.

_Third Serv._ A marvellous poor one.

_Cor._ True, so I am.

_Third Serv._ Pray you, poor gentleman, take up some
other station; here's no place for you; pray you, avoid: 30
come.[3506]

_Cor._ Follow your function, go, and batten on cold bits.[3507]

[_Pushes him away from him._

_Third Serv._ What, you will not? Prithee, tell my[3508]
master what a strange guest he has here.

_Sec. Serv._ And I shall. [_Exit._[3509] 35

_Third Serv._ Where dwell'st thou?[3510]

_Cor._ Under the canopy.

_Third Serv._ Under the canopy!

_Cor._ Ay.

_Third Serv._ Where's that? 40

_Cor._ I' the city of kites and crows.

_Third Serv._ I' the city of kites and crows! What an[3511]
ass it is! Then thou dwell'st with daws too?[3510]

_Cor._ No, I serve not thy master.

_Third Serv._ How, sir! do you meddle with my master? 45

_Cor._ Ay; 'tis an honester service than to meddle with[3512]
thy mistress:[3512]
Thou pratest, and pratest; serve with thy trencher, hence!
[_Beats him away. Exit third Servingman._

_Enter_ AUFIDIUS _with the second_ Servingman.[3513]

_Auf._ Where is this fellow?

_Sec. Serv._ Here, sir: I'ld have beaten him like a dog, 50
but for disturbing the lords within. [_Retires._[3514]

_Auf._ Whence comest thou? what wouldst thou? thy name?[3515]
Why speak'st not? speak, man: what's thy name?[3516]

_Cor._ [_Unmuffling_] If, Tullus,[3517][3518]
Not yet thou knowest me, and, seeing me, dost not[3518]
Think me for the man I am, necessity[3518][3519] 55
Commands me name myself.[3518][3520]

_Auf._ What is thy name?

_Cor._ A name unmusical to the Volscians' ears,[3521]
And harsh in sound to thine.

_Auf._ Say, what's thy name?
Thou hast a grim appearance, and thy face
Bears a command in 't; though thy tackle's torn,[3522] 60
Thou show'st a noble vessel: what's thy name?

_Cor._ Prepare thy brow to frown:--know'st thou me yet?

_Auf._ I know thee not:--thy name?[3523]

_Cor._ My name is Caius Marcius, who hath done[3524]
To thee particularly, and to all the Volsces, 65
Great hurt and mischief; thereto witness may
My surname, Coriolanus: the painful service,
The extreme dangers, and the drops of blood
Shed for my thankless country, are requited[3525]
But with that surname; a good memory,[3526] 70
And witness of the malice and displeasure
Which thou shouldst bear me: only that name remains:[3527]
The cruelty and envy of the people,[3528]
Permitted by our dastard nobles, who
Have all forsook me, hath devour'd the rest; 75
And suffer'd me by the voice of slaves to be
Whoop'd out of Rome. Now, this extremity[3529]
Hath brought me to thy hearth: not out of hope--
Mistake me not--to save my life, for if
I had fear'd death, of all the men i' the world 80
I would have 'voided thee; but in mere spite,[3530]
To be full quit of those my banishers,
Stand I before thee here. Then if thou hast
A heart of wreak in thee, that wilt revenge[3531]
Thine own particular wrongs and stop those maims[3532] 85
Of shame seen through thy country, speed thee straight,[3532]
And make my misery serve thy turn: so use it
That my revengeful services may prove
As benefits to thee; for I will fight
Against my canker'd country with the spleen 90
Of all the under fiends. But if so be
Thou darest not this and that to prove more fortunes
Thou'rt tired, then, in a word, I also am[3533]
Longer to live most weary, and present
My throat to thee and to thy ancient malice; 95
Which not to cut would show thee but a fool,[3534]
Since I have ever follow'd thee with hate,
Drawn tuns of blood out of thy country's breast,
And cannot live but to thy shame, unless
It be to do thee service.

_Auf._ O Marcius, Marcius![3535] 100
Each word thou hast spoke hath weeded from my heart[3536]
A root of ancient envy. If Jupiter[3537]
Should from yond cloud speak divine things,[3538]
And say 'Tis true,' I'ld not believe them more[3539]
Than thee, all noble Marcius. Let me twine[3540] 105
Mine arms about that body, where against[3541]
My grained ash an hundred times hath broke,
And scarr'd the moon with splinters: here I clip[3542]
The anvil of my sword, and do contest
As hotly and as nobly with thy love 110
As ever in ambitious strength I did
Contend against thy valour. Know thou first,[3543]
I loved the maid I married; never man[3543]
Sigh'd truer breath; but that I see thee here,
Thou noble thing! more dances my rapt heart 115
Than when I first my wedded mistress saw
Bestride my threshold. Why, thou Mars! I tell thee,[3544]
We have a power on foot; and I had purpose
Once more to hew thy target from thy brawn,
Or lose mine arm for't: thou hast beat me out[3545] 120
Twelve several times, and I have nightly since
Dreamt of encounters 'twixt thyself and me;
We have been down together in my sleep,
Unbuckling helms, fisting each other's throat;
And waked half dead with nothing. Worthy Marcius, 125
Had we no quarrel else to Rome but that[3546]
Thou art thence banish'd, we would muster all
From twelve to seventy, and pouring war
Into the bowels of ungrateful Rome,
Like a bold flood o'er-beat. O, come, go in,[3547] 130
And take our friendly senators by the hands,
Who now are here, taking their leaves of me,
Who am prepared against your territories,
Though not for Rome itself.

_Cor._ You bless me, gods!

_Auf._ Therefore, most absolute sir, if thou wilt have 135
The leading of thine own revenges, take
The one half of my commission, and set down--[3548]
As best thou art experienced, since thou know'st
Thy country's strength and weakness--thine own ways;
Whether to knock against the gates of Rome, 140
Or rudely visit them in parts remote,
To fright them, ere destroy. But come in:[3549]
Let me commend thee first to those that shall[3550]
Say yea to thy desires. A thousand welcomes!
And more a friend than e'er an enemy; 145
Yet, Marcius, that was much. Your hand: most welcome!

[_Exeunt Coriolanus and Aufidius. The two Servingmen
come forward._[3551]

_First Serv._ Here's a strange alteration![3552]

_Sec. Serv._ By my hand, I had thought to have strucken[3553]
him with a cudgel; and yet my mind gave me his clothes[3554]
made a false report of him. 150

_First Serv._ What an arm he has! he turned me about
with his finger and his thumb, as one would set up a top.

_Sec. Serv._ Nay, I knew by his face that there was
something in him: he had, sir, a kind of face, methought,--I[3555]
cannot tell how to term it. 155

_First Serv._ He had so; looking as it were--Would I[3556]
were hanged, but I thought there was more in him than I
could think.

_Sec. Serv._ So did I, I'll be sworn: he is simply the
rarest man i' the world. 160

_First Serv._ I think he is: but a greater soldier than
he, you wot one.[3557]

_Sec. Serv._ Who? my master?[3558]

_First Serv._ Nay, it's no matter for that.

_Sec. Serv._ Worth six on him. 165

_First Serv._ Nay, not so neither: but I take him to be
the greater soldier.

_Sec. Serv._ Faith, look you, one cannot tell how to say
that: for the defence of a town, our general is excellent.

_First Serv._ Ay, and for an assault too. 170

_Re-enter third_ Servingman.[3559]

_Third Serv._ O slaves, I can tell you news; news, you[3560]
rascals!

_First and Sec. Serv._ What, what, what? let's partake.[3561]

_Third Serv._ I would not be a Roman, of all nations;
I had as lieve be a condemned man.[3562] 175

_First and Sec. Serv._ Wherefore? wherefore?[3561]

_Third Serv._ Why, here's he that was wont to thwack
our general, Caius Marcius.

_First Serv._ Why do you say, thwack our general?

_Third Serv._ I do not say, thwack our general; but he 180
was always good enough for him.

_Sec. Serv._ Come, we are fellows and friends: he was
ever too hard for him; I have heard him say so himself.

_First Serv._ He was too hard for him directly, to say
the troth on 't: before Corioli he scotched him and notched[3563] 185
him like a carbonado.[3564]

_Sec. Serv._ An he had been cannibally given, he might[3565]
have broiled and eaten him too.[3566]

_First Serv._ But, more of thy news?[3567]

_Third Serv._ Why, he is so made on here within as if 190
he were son and heir to Mars; set at upper end o' the
table; no question asked him by any of the senators, but
they stand bald before him. Our general himself makes a
mistress of him; sanctifies himself with 's hand, and turns[3568]
up the white o' the eye to his discourse. But the bottom of 195
the news is, our general is cut i' the middle, and but one
half of what he was yesterday; for the other has half, by
the entreaty and grant of the whole table. He'll go, he
says, and sowl the porter of Rome gates by the ears: he will[3569]
mow all down before him, and leave his passage poll'd.[3570] 200

_Sec. Serv._ And he's as like to do't as any man I can
imagine.

_Third Serv._ Do't! he will do't; for, look you, sir, he
has as many friends as enemies; which friends, sir, as it
were, durst not, look you, sir, show themselves, as we term 205
it, his friends whilst he's in directitude.[3571][3572]

_First Serv._ Directitude! what's that?[3572]

_Third Serv._ But when they shall see, sir, his crest up
again and the man in blood, they will out of their burrows,
like conies after rain, and revel all with him.[3573] 210

_First Serv._ But when goes this forward?

_Third Serv._ To-morrow; to-day; presently: you shall
have the drum struck up this afternoon: 'tis, as it were, a
parcel of their feast, and to be executed ere they wipe their
lips. 215

_Sec. Serv._ Why, then we shall have a stirring world
again. This peace is nothing, but to rust iron, increase[3574]
tailors and breed ballad-makers.

_First Serv._ Let me have war, say I; it exceeds peace
as far as day does night; it's spritely, waking, audible, and[3575] 220
full of vent. Peace is a very apoplexy, lethargy, mull'd,[3576]
deaf, sleepy, insensible; a getter of more bastard children[3577]
than war's a destroyer of men.[3578]

_Sec. Serv._ 'Tis so: and as war, in some sort, may be[3579]
said to be a ravisher, so it cannot be denied but peace is a 225
great maker of cuckolds.

_First Serv._ Ay, and it makes men hate one another.

_Third Serv._ Reason; because they then less need one
another. The wars for my money. I hope to see Romans
as cheap as Volscians. They are rising, they are rising. 230

_First and Sec. Serv._ In, in, in, in! [_Exeunt._[3580]

SCENE VI. _Rome. A public place._[3581]

_Enter the two Tribunes_, SICINIUS _and_ BRUTUS.

_Sic._ We hear not of him, neither need we fear him;
His remedies are tame i' the present peace[3582]
And quietness of the people, which before
Were in wild hurry. Here do we make his friends[3583]
Blush that the world goes well; who rather had, 5
Though they themselves did suffer by't, behold[3584]
Dissentious numbers pestering streets than see
Our tradesmen singing in their shops and going
About their functions friendly.

_Bru._ We stood to 't in good time.

_Enter_ MENENIUS.

Is this Menenius?[3585] 10

_Sic._ 'Tis he, 'tis he: O, he is grown most kind[3586]
Of late. Hail, sir![3586][3587]

_Men._ Hail to you both!

_Sic._ Your Coriolanus is not much miss'd,[3588]
But with his friends: the commonwealth doth stand;[3588]
And so would do, were he more angry at it.[3588] 15

_Men._ All's well; and might have been much better, if[3588]
He could have temporized.[3588]

_Sic._ Where is he, hear you?

_Men._ Nay, I hear nothing: his mother and his wife[3589]
Hear nothing from him.[3589]

_Enter three or four_ Citizens.

_Citizens._ The gods preserve you both![3590]

_Sic._ God-den, our neighbours.[3591][3592] 20

_Bru._ God-den to you all, god-den to you all.[3591]

_First Cit._ Ourselves, our wives, and children, on our knees,
Are bound to pray for you both.

_Sic._ Live, and thrive![3593]

_Bru._ Farewell, kind neighbours: we wish'd Coriolanus[3594]
Had loved you as we did.[3594]

_Citizens._ Now the gods keep you![3590] 25

_Both Tri._ Farewell, farewell. [_Exeunt Citizens._

_Sic._ This is a happier and more comely time
Than when these fellows ran about the streets,
Crying confusion.

_Bru._ Caius Marcius was
A worthy officer i' the war, but insolent, 30
O'ercome with pride, ambitious past all thinking,[3595]
Self-loving,--[3596]

_Sic._ And affecting one sole throne,[3597][3598]
Without assistance.[3597]

_Men._ I think not so.[3599]

_Sic._ We should by this, to all our lamentation,[3600]
If he had gone forth consul, found it so.[3601] 35

_Bru._ The gods have well prevented it, and Rome
Sits safe and still without him.

_Enter an_ Ædile.

_Æd._ Worthy tribunes,
There is a slave, whom we have put in prison,
Reports, the Volsces with two several powers
Are enter'd in the Roman territories, 40
And with the deepest malice of the war
Destroy what lies before 'em.[3602]

_Men._ 'Tis Aufidius,
Who, hearing of our Marcius' banishment,
Thrusts forth his horns again into the world;
Which were inshell'd when Marcius stood for Rome, 45
And durst not once peep out.

_Sic._ Come, what talk you[3603]
Of Marcius?[3603]

_Bru._ Go see this rumourer whipp'd. It cannot be[3604]
The Volsces dare break with us.

_Men._ Cannot be!
We have record that very well it can, 50
And three examples of the like have been[3605]
Within my age. But reason with the fellow,
Before you punish him, where he heard this,
Lest you shall chance to whip your information
And beat the messenger who bids beware 55
Of what is to be dreaded.

_Sic._ Tell not me:[3606]
I know this cannot be.[3606]

_Bru._ Not possible.

_Enter a_ Messenger.

_Mess._ The nobles in great earnestness are going
All to the senate-house: some news is come[3607]
That turns their countenances.

_Sic._ 'Tis this slave; 60
Go whip him 'fore the people's eyes: his raising;
Nothing but his report.

_Mess._ Yes, worthy sir,
The slave's report is seconded; and more,
More fearful, is deliver'd.[3608]

_Sic._ What more fearful?

_Mess._ It is spoke freely out of many mouths-- 65
How probable I do not know--that Marcius,
Join'd with Aufidius, leads a power 'gainst Rome,
And vows revenge as spacious as between
The young'st and oldest thing.[3609]

_Sic._ This is most likely![3610]

_Bru._ Raised only, that the weaker sort may wish[3610] 70
Good Marcius home again.[3610][3611]

_Sic._ The very trick on't.

_Men._ This is unlikely:
He and Aufidius can no more atone[3612]
Than violentest contrariety.

_Enter a second_ Messenger.[3613]

_Sec. Mess._ You are sent for to the senate:[3614] 75
A fearful army, led by Caius Marcius
Associated with Aufidius, rages
Upon our territories; and have already[3615]
O'erborne their way, consumed with fire, and took
What lay before them. 80

_Enter_ COMINIUS.

_Com._ O, you have made good work!

_Men._ What news? what news?

_Com._ You have holp to ravish your own daughters, and
To melt the city leads upon your pates;
To see your wives dishonour'd to your noses,--[3616]

_Men._ What's the news? what's the news? 85

_Com._ Your temples burned in their cement, and[3617]
Your franchises, whereon you stood, confined
Into an auger's bore.[3618]

_Men._ Pray now, your news?--
You have made fair work, I fear me.--Pray, your news?--
If Marcius should be join'd with Volscians,--[3619]

_Com._ If![3620] 90
He is their god: he leads them like a thing[3620]
Made by some other deity than nature,
That shapes man better; and they follow him,
Against us brats, with no less confidence
Than boys pursuing summer butterflies, 95
Or butchers killing flies.

_Men._ You have made good work,[3621]
You and your apron-men; you that stood so much[3622]
Upon the voice of occupation and
The breath of garlic-eaters!

_Com._ He'll shake your Rome about your ears.[3623]

_Men._ As Hercules[3624] 100
Did shake down mellow fruit. You have made fair work![3624]

_Bru._ But is this true, sir?

_Com._ Ay; and you'll look pale
Before you find it other. All the regions[3625]
Do smilingly revolt; and who resist[3626]
Are mock'd for valiant ignorance,[3627] 105
And perish constant fools. Who is't can blame him?[3628]
Your enemies and his find something in him.[3628]

_Men._ We are all undone, unless[3628][3629]
The noble man have mercy.

_Com._ Who shall ask it?
The tribunes cannot do't for shame; the people 110
Deserve such pity of him as the wolf
Does of the shepherds: for his best friends, if they[3630]
Should say 'Be good to Rome,' they charged him even[3631]
As those should do that had deserved his hate,[3631]
And therein show'd like enemies.[3631]

_Men._ 'Tis true:[3632] 115
If he were putting to my house the brand[3632]
That should consume it, I have not the face[3633]
To say 'Beseech you, cease.' You have made fair hands,[3634]
You and your crafts! you have crafted fair![3635][3634]

_Com._ You have brought
A trembling upon Rome, such as was never 120
So incapable of help.

_Both Tri._ Say not, we brought it.[3636]

_Men._ How! was it we? we loved him; but, like beasts[3637][3638]
And cowardly nobles, gave way unto your clusters,[3637][3639]
Who did hoot him out o' the city.[3637][3640]

_Com._ But I fear
They'll roar him in again. Tullus Aufidius, 125
The second name of men, obeys his points
As if he were his officer: desperation
Is all the policy, strength and defence,
That Rome can make against them.

_Enter a troop of_ Citizens.

_Men._ Here come the clusters[3641]
And is Aufidius with him? You are they 130
That made the air unwholesome, when you cast[3642]
Your stinking greasy caps in hooting at[3643]
Coriolanus' exile. Now he's coming;[3643][3644]
And not a hair upon a soldier's head
Which will not prove a whip: as many coxcombs 135
As you threw caps up will he tumble down,
And pay you for your voices. 'Tis no matter;
If he could burn us all into one coal,[3645]
We have deserved it.

_Citizens._ Faith, we hear fearful news.[3646]

_First Cit._ For mine own part, 140
When I said, banish him, I said, 'twas pity.

_Sec. Cit._ And so did I.

_Third Cit._ And so did I; and, to say the truth, so did[3647]
very many of us: that we did, we did for the best; and
though we willingly consented to his banishment, yet it was 145
against our will.

_Com._ Ye're goodly things, you voices![3648]

_Men._ You have made[3649][3650]
Good work, you and your cry! Shall 's to the Capitol?[3649]

_Com._ O, ay, what else? [_Exeunt Cominius and Menenius._[3651]

_Sic._ Go, masters, get you home; be not dismay'd: 150
These are a side that would be glad to have
This true which they so seem to fear. Go home,
And show no sign of fear.

_First Cit._ The gods be good to us! Come, masters,
let's home. I ever said we were i' the wrong when we 155
banished him.

_Sec. Cit._ So did we all. But, come, let's home.

[_Exeunt Citizens._[3652]

_Bru._ I do not like this news.

_Sic._ Nor I.

_Bru._ Let's to the Capitol: would half my wealth 160
Would buy this for a lie!

_Sic._ Pray, let us go. [_Exeunt._[3653]

SCENE VII. _A camp, at a small distance from Rome._

_Enter_ AUFIDIUS _with his_ Lieutenant.[3654]

_Auf._ Do they still fly to the Roman?

_Lieu._ I do not know what witchcraft's in him, but[3655]
Your soldiers use him as the grace 'fore meat,
Their talk at table and their thanks at end;
And you are darken'd in this action, sir, 5
Even by your own.

_Auf._ I cannot help it now,[3656]
Unless, by using means, I lame the foot[3656]
Of our design. He bears himself more proudlier,[3657]
Even to my person, than I thought he would
When first I did embrace him: yet his nature 10
In that's no changeling; and I must excuse
What cannot be amended.

_Lieu._ Yet I wish, sir--
I mean for your particular--you had not
Join'd in commission with him; but either[3658][3659]
Had borne the action of yourself, or else[3658][3659] 15
To him had left it solely.[3658]

_Auf._ I understand thee well; and be thou sure,
When he shall come to his account, he knows not
What I can urge against him. Although it seems,[3660]
And so he thinks, and is no less apparent 20
To the vulgar eye, that he bears all things fairly,
And shows good husbandry for the Volscian state,
Fights dragon-like, and does achieve as soon
As draw his sword, yet he hath left undone
That which shall break his neck or hazard mine, 25
Whene'er we come to our account.[3661]

_Lieu._ Sir, I beseech you, think you he'll carry Rome?[3661][3662]

_Auf._ All places yield to him ere he sits down;[3663]
And the nobility of Rome are his:
The senators and patricians love him too:[3664] 30
The tribunes are no soldiers; and their people
Will be as rash in the repeal, as hasty
To expel him thence. I think he'll be to Rome
As is the osprey to the fish, who takes it[3665]
By sovereignty of nature. First he was 35
A noble servant to them; but he could not
Carry his honours even: whether 'twas pride,[3666]
Which out of daily fortune ever taints
The happy man; whether defect of judgement,[3667]
To fail in the disposing of those chances 40
Which he was lord of; or whether nature,[3668][3669]
Not to be other than one thing, not moving[3669]
From the casque to the cushion, but commanding peace[3670]
Even with the same austerity and garb
As he controll'd the war; but one of these-- 45
As he hath spices of them all, not all,[3671][3672]
For I dare so far free him--made him fear'd,[3671]
So hated, and so banish'd: but he has a merit,[3673]
To choke it in the utterance. So our virtues[3674]
Lie in the interpretation of the time;[3675] 50
And power, unto itself most commendable,
Hath not a tomb so evident as a chair[3676]
To extol what it hath done.
One fire drives out one fire; one nail, one nail;
Rights by rights fouler, strengths by strengths do fail.[3677] 55
Come, let's away. When, Caius, Rome is thine,
Thou art poor'st of all; then shortly art thou mine. [_Exeunt._[3678]

FOOTNOTES:

[3414] ACT IV. SCENE I.] Rowe. Actus Quartus. Ff.

Rome. Before ...] Malone. Without the walls of Rome. Rowe. The Gates of Rome. Pope. Before the gates of Rome. Theobald.

Enter ... with the young Nobility of Rome.] Ff. Enter ... Senators and Patricians. Capell.

[3415] _extremity was_] F₃ F₄. _extreamity was_ F₂. _extreamities was_ F₁. _extremities were_ Malone.

[3416] _chances common_] F₄. _chances, common_ F₂ F₃. _chances. Common_ F₁.

[3417] _fortune's blows ... craves_] _fortune bows When most struck home; being gentle, wounded, craves_ Staunton conj. (withdrawn). _that fortune's blows ... craves_ Keightley.

[3418] _struck_] F₄. _strooke_ F₁ F₂. _strook_ F₃.

_being ... craves] beget in wounded cravens or bring gentle wounded cravens_ Bullock conj.

_gentle wounded, craves_] Ff. _gently warded, craves_ Pope. _greatly warded, crave_ Hanmer. _gently wounded craves_ Capell. _gentle-minded craves_ Collier (Collier MS.)

[3419] _home ... noble_] _home, then most demand a patient And a skilful healer, being gentle-wounded craves No noble_ or _home, demand a patient and A skilful healer, being ... No noble_ Nicholson conj.]

_gentle ... cunning:_] _gentle, the wounded braves: A noble cunning!_ Becket conj.

[3420] _cunning_] _calling_ Leo conj.

[3421] _woman,--_] _woman--_ Rowe. _woman._ Ff.

[3422] _I have_] _I've_ Pope.

[3423] _As 'tis_] _Easy_ Anon. conj.

_My ... well_] Ff. _My ... not well_ Rowe. _Mother, you wot_ Pope.

[3424] _fen_] _den_ Grey conj.

[3425] _or_] _or not_ Keightley.

[3426] _My first son_] _First, my son_ Hanmer. _My fierce son_ Heath conj. _My fairest son_ Keightley.

[3427] _Whither wilt thou_] Capell. _Whether will thou_ F₁. _Whither will you_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _Where will you_ Pope.

[3428] _awhile_] F₁. _a while_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[3429] _exposture_] _exposure_ Rowe.

[3430] Cor.] Vir. Keightley. Com. Anon. conj.

[3431] _I' the_] _I h'_ F₂.

[3432] _Thou hast_] _Thou'st_ Pope.

[3433] _wars'_] Steevens (1793). _warres_ F₁ F₂. _warrs_ F₃. _wars_ F₄. _war's_ Rowe.

[3434] _every_] _evere_ F₂.

_Give ... Come_] As in Steevens. One line in Ff.

_Come_] om. Pope.

[3435] SCENE II. Pope.

The same. A street ...] The same. Street leading from the Gate. Capell.

[3436] _The ... vex'd_] Capell. _The ... vexed_ Ff. _Vex'd are the nobles_ Pope.

_whom_] Ff. _who_ Rowe (ed. 2).

[3437] _Dismiss ... mother_] As in Pope. One line in Ff.

[3438] [Exit Ædile.] Capell. om. Ff.

[3439] Enter ...] Ff. Transferred to follow line 10 by Dyce.

[3440] _They say ... us_] As in Ff. One line in Capell.

[3441] _ye're_] _y'are_ Ff. _you're_ Capell.

[3442] _the hoarded ... love_] As in Capell. One line in Ff.

[3443] _Requite_] F₃ F₄. _requit_ F₁ F₂.

[3444] [To Brutus] Johnson. om. Ff.

To Virgilia. Hanmer.

[3445] [To Sicinius] Johnson. om. Ff.

[3446] _You ... husband._] Continued to Volumnia. Hanmer.

[3447] _my_] _thy_ Hanmer.

[3448] _struck_] F₄. _strooke_ F₁ F₂. _strook_ F₃.

[3449] _words?_] Hanmer. _words._ Ff. _words--_ Rowe.

[3450] _Moe_] F₁ F₂. _More_ F₃ F₄.

[3451] _good. I'll_] _good. Ile_ F₁. _good Ile_ F₂ F₃. _good, I'le_ F₄.

[3452] Vir. _What then ... posterity._ Vol. _Bastards ... Rome._] Vol. _What then ... Rome._ Hanmer.

[3453] _What then!... posterity_] As in Hanmer. One line in Ff.

[3454] _he made_] _is made_ Rowe (ed. 2).

[3455] _Cats_] _Curs_ Collier MS. _Bats_ Staunton conj.

[3456] _let us_] Pope. _let's_ Ff.

[3457] _You have_] _You've_ Pope.

[3458] _stay we_] F₁. _stay you_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[3459] [Exeunt Tribunes.] F₄ (after _wits?_). Exit Tribunes. F₁ F₂ F₃ (after _wits?_).

[3460] _would_] _wish_ Rowe.

[3461] _'em_] _them_ Malone.

[3462] _You have ... you have_] _You've ... have_ Pope.

[3463] _told_] _toll'd_ Malone conj.

[3464] _me?_] F₃ F₄. _me._ F₁ F₂.

[3465] _starve_] F₃ F₄. _sterve_ F₁ F₂.

[3466] [To Virgilia. Hanmer.

[3467] _Come, come, come._ Men. _Fie, fie, fie!_] _Come, come, fie, fie._ Pope. _Come, come._ Men. _Fie, fie!_ Seymour conj.

[3468] [Exeunt Vol. and Vir.] Exeunt. Ff. om. Rowe.

[3469] Men.] F₃ F₄. Mene. F₁ F₂. om. Rowe.

[Exit.] Ff. Exeunt. Rowe.

[3470] SCENE III.] Pope. SCENE II. Rowe.

A highway ...] Malone. Antium. Rowe. Volcian Territories. A Highway. Capell. Between Rome and Antium. Steevens.

meeting] Capell. om. Ff.

[3471] _and_] _but_ Pope.

[3472] _'em_] _them_ Malone.

[3473] _Nicanor?_] F₃ F₄. _Nicanor:_ F₁ F₂.

[3474] _is_] _has_ Malone conj.

_appeared_] _appear'd_ F₁ F₃ F₄. _appeard_ F₂. _affeer'd_ Hanmer. _appeal'd_ Warburton. _apparel'd_ Jackson conj. _approved_ Collier, ed. 2 (Steevens conj.) _appayed_ Singer.

[3475] _there_] F₁. _here_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[3476] _insurrections_] _insurrection_ Steevens (1778).

[3477] _been!_] Rowe. _bin;_ F₁ F₂. _been;_ F₃ F₄.

[3478] _will_] _well_ F₁.

[3479] _from_] _for_ Warburton.

[3480] SCENE IV.] Capell. Pope continues the scene.

Antium ...] Capell.

[3481] _'fore_] Johnson. _fore_ F₁. _for_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[3482] _and_] _an_ F₂.

[3483] Enter ...] Ff, after _sir._

[3484] _Direct ... night._] As in Capell. Prose in Ff. Verse first by Johnson, ending line 7 _at great._

[3485] _beseech_] _I beseech_ Rowe.

[3486] _seem to wear one_] F₄. _seemes to weare one_ F₁. _seene weare on_ F₂. _seen wear on_ F₃.

[3487] _hours_] _Houres_ F₁ F₂. _Hours_ F₃ F₄. _house_ Dyce (Collier MS.)

[3488] _twin_] _Twine_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[3489] _birth-place hate ... love's upon_] Capell. _birth-place haue I, and my loues vpon_ F₁. _birth-lace have I, and my lover upon_ F₂ F₃. _birth-place have I, and my Lover left; upon_ F₄. _birth-place have I, and my lovers left; upon_ Rowe. _birth-place have I and my lovers left_; Pope. Johnson conjectures that a line is lost here. _country have I and my lovers lost_ Becket conj.

_birth-place_] _country_ misquoted in Johnson's note.

[3490] _This ... enter_] _This enemy's house I'll enter_ Hanmer. _The enemy's town I've entered_ Becket conj.

_enemy_] _Enemie_ F₁ F₂ F₃ _Enemy's_ F₄. _enemies'_ Steevens conj. (from North's Plutarch).

_town._] _Towne:_ F₁. _Towne_ F₂. _Town_ F₃ F₄.

[3491] SCENE V.] Capell. SCENE II. Rowe. SCENE IV. Pope.

A hall ...] Rowe. within.] Capell. playes. Ff.

[3492] [Exit.] Rowe. om. Ff.

[3493] _master_] F₄. _M._ F₁ F₂ F₃.

[3494] _A ... guest._] As in Pope. The first line ends at _house:_ in Ff. Prose in Warburton.

[3495] _well_] F₁. om. F₂ F₃ F₄.

[3496] [goes toward the Hearth. Capell.

[3497] Re-enter ...] Enter ... Ff. Re-enter the first Servant, with Wine. Capell.

[3498] _door._] F₄. _doore?_ F₁ F₂. _dore_ F₃.

[3499] _I ... Coriolanus._] As in Capell. Prose in Ff.

[3500] Re-enter ...] Enter second Servant. Ff. Re-enter second servant. Capell.

[3501] _thou'rt_] _th'art_ F₁ F₄. _th'_ F₂. _th'_ F₃. _thou art_ Steevens.

[3502] _anon._] _anon._ [going. Capell.

[3503] Enter ... him.] Enter 3 Servingmen, the 1 meets him. F₁ F₂. Enter 3 Servingmen, the first meets him. F₃. Enter three Servingmen.... F₄. Enter a third Servant.... Rowe.

The first meets him.] Omitted by Capell.

[3504] First Serv.] 1. Ff. 2. S. Capell.

[3505] [Retires.] Edd.

[3506] _come_] om. Capell conj., reading 25-32 as four lines, ending _one ... gentleman, ... place ... go._

[3507] As two half lines, the first ending _go,_ in Capell.

[3508] _you will not?_] _will you not?_ Pope.

[3509] [Exit.] Capell. Exit second Servingman. Ff.

[3510] _dwell'st_] _dwellest_ Reed (1803).

[3511] _crows!_] _crowes?_ F₁. _crowes._ F₂. _crows._ F₃ F₄.

[3512] _Ay ... mistress:_] As a verse in Singer.

[3513] _Thou ... hence!_] Verse in Capell. Prose in Ff.

[Beats ... Exit ...] Beats him away. Ff.

Enter ...] Enter A., and second Servant. Capell. Enter Auffidius with the Servingman. F₁ F₂. Enter ... with a Servingman. F₃ F₄.

[3514] [Retires.] Edd.

[3515] _what wouldst_] _and what wouldest_ Capell. _what wouldest_ Steevens.

_thou_] F₃ F₄. _yͧ_ F₁ F₂.

[3516] _speak'st ... what's_] _speakest ... what is_ Keightley.

[3517] _If ... myself._] As in Steevens. Prose in Ff. As three lines in Pope, reading _yet thou know'st me not, and seeing me, Dost not yet take me,_ and ending the lines _seeing me ... am ... myself._ Staunton ends the lines _know'st me, ... I am ... myself._ Keightley ends the first lines _seeing me ... necessity._

[3518] [Unmuffling] Capell.

[3519] _Think me for_] _take me To be_ Capell, ending the lines _Tullus, ... take me ... necessity ... myself._

[3520] [Servants retire. Capell.

[3521] _the Volscians'_] _the Volcians'_ Capell. _the Volcians_ F₁ F₂. _the Volceans_ F₃. _the Volscians_ F₄. _Volscians_ Rowe. _Volscian_ Pope. _the Volces'_ Rann. _the Volscian's_ Knight (ed. 1).

[3522] _command_] _Commanne_ F₂.

[3523] _not:--_] _not;_ F₃ F₄. _not?_ F₁ F₂.

[3524] _Marcius_] _Matius_ F₂.

[3525] _my_] F₁. _thy_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[3526] _memory_] F₃ F₄. _memorie_ F₁ F₂. _memorial_ Hanmer.

[3527] _shouldst_] F₁. _could'st_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[3528] _people,_] _people._ F₂.

[3529] _Whoop'd_] Hanmer. _Hoop'd_ Ff.

_out of_] _out_ Steevens (1778).

[3530] _I would have 'voided_] Steevens. _I would have voided_ Ff. _I would have avoided_ Rowe (ed. 2). _I'd have avoided_ Pope.

[3531] _that wilt_] Ff. _that will_ Hanmer. _and wilt_ Capell conj.

[3532] _maims Of shame_] _maims, Of shame,_ Becket conj.

[3533] _Thou'rt_] Rowe. _Th' art_ Ff. _Thou art_ Capell.

[3534] _fool_] _Fooole_ F₂.

[3535] _O Marcius_] _Marcius_ Seymour conj.

[3536] _thou hast_] _thou'st_ Pope.

[3537] _If_] _O, if_ Seymour conj. (withdrawn).

[3538] _cloud_] _cleaving cloud_ Lettsom conj.

_speak divine things_] _speak to me things divine_ Pope.

[3539] _them_] _him_ S. Walker conj.

[3540] _Let me twine_] _O, let me twine_ Capell, ending lines 103, 104 at _say ... thee. Let me entwine_ Keightley, ending lines as Capell.

[3541] _where against_] _where-against_ Pope.

[3542] _scarr'd_] Ff. _scar'd_ Rowe (ed. 2).

_clip_] Pope. _cleep_ Ff.

[3543] _Know thou first, I_] _Know thou, first I_ Rowe.

[3544] _Bestride_] F₁. _Bestrid_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[3545] _mine_] _my_ Rowe (ed. 2).

[3546] _no quarrel else_] F₃ F₄. _no other quarrel else_ F₁ F₂.

[3547] _o'er-beat_] _o're-beate_ F₁ F₂. _o're-beat_ F₃ F₄. _o'er-bear_ Rowe. _o'er-bear't_ Grant White (Becket conj.) _o'er-bear her_ Keightley. See note (IX).

[3548] _The one_] _One_ Pope.

[3549] _destroy_] _destroy them_ Keightley. _destroying_ Anon. conj.

_But come_] _But come, come_ Rowe (ed. 2). _But come we_ Seymour conj.

[3550] _commend_] F₁ F₄. _comment_ F₂ F₃.

[3551] [Exeunt....] Capell. Exeunt. Ff.]

The two ... forward.] Enter two of the Servingmen. Ff.

[3552] SCENE V. Pope.

First Serv.] 1. Ff. 3. S. [advancing. Capell (and throughout the scene).

[3553] _strucken_] F₃ F₄. _stroken_ F₁ F₂. _strooken_ Capell.

[3554] _gave_] _misgave_ Anon. conj.

[3555] _methought,--_] _methought--_ Rowe. _methought,_ F₁. _methought_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[3556] _were--_] Rowe. _were,_ Ff.

[3557] _one_] Ff, reading _You wot one_ as a separate line. _on_ Dyce.

[3558] _Who? my_] _Who, my_ F₄. _Who my_ F₁ F₂ F₃.

[3559] Re-enter....] Enter the third Servingman. Ff. Re-enter first Servant. Capell.

[3560] Third Serv.] 3. Ff. 1. S. Capell (and throughout the scene).

[3561] First and Sec. Serv.] 2. 3. Capell. Both. Ff.

[3562] _lieve_] F₄. _live_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _lief_ Capell.

[3563] _troth_] _truth_ Steevens (1793).

_on't: before_] _on't; before_ Rowe. _on't before_ Ff.

[3564] _carbonado_] F₄. _carbinado_ F₁ F₂ F₃.

[3565] _An he had_] Capell. _And hee had_ Ff. _And, had he_ Rowe.

[3566] _broiled_] Pope. _boyld_ Ff.

[3567] _news?_] Capell. _news._ Ff. _news:--_ Theobald.

[3568] _hand_] _hands_ Rowe.

[3569] _sowl_] _sowle_ Rowe. _sole_ Ff.

[3570] _all down_] _down all_ Rowe.

_poll'd_] Rowe. _poul'd_ Ff.

[3571] _he's_] _he's not_ Becket conj.

[3572] _directitude_] _discreditude_ Malone conj. _dejectitude_ Collier (Collier MS.)

[3573] _revel_] _reveal_ Rowe (ed. 2).

[3574] _nothing_] _worth nothing_ F₄. _good for nothing_ Capell.

[3575] _spritely, waking_] _sprightly, waking_ Pope. _sprightly walking_ Ff.

[3576] _vent_] _vaunt_ Becket conj.

_lethargy_] _a lethargy_ S. Walker conj.

_mull'd_] _mute_ S. Walker conj.

[3577] _sleepy_] F₃ F₄. _sleepe_ F₁ F₂. _asleep_ Capell.

[3578] _war's_] Rowe (ed. 2). _warres_ F₁ F₂. _Warrs_ F₃. _Wars_ F₄.

[3579] _war_] Rowe (ed. 2). _warres_ F₁ F₂. _Warrs_ F₃. _Wars_ F₄.

[3580] First and Sec. Serv.] 2. 3. Capell. Both. Ff. All. Steevens (1778).

[3581] SCENE VI.] Pope. SCENE IV. Rowe.

Rome.] Rowe.

A public place.] Theobald.

[3582] _tame i' the_] Theobald. _tame, the_ Ff. _tame: the_ Rowe. _ta'en, the_ Johnson conj. _lame i' the_ Mason conj. _tamed by the_ Collier MS.

[3583] _hurry. Here do we make_] Ff. _hurry. Here we make_ Pope. _hurry here, do make_ Hanmer. _hurry. Here he makes_ Warburton. _hurry, here do make_ Grant White.

[3584] _behold_] _beheld_ Pope.

[3585] Enter Menenius.] Ff (after _friendly,_ line 9).

[3586] _'Tis he ... late_] As in Capell. One line in Ff. Prose in Rowe.

[3587] _Hail, sir!_] _Hail, sir!_ Bru. _Hail sir!_ Capell. _Hail to you, sir!_ Seymour conj.

[3588] _Your ... temporized_] As verse first by Capell, who reads _Coriolanus, sir_. Prose in Ff.

[3589] _his ... him_] As in Capell. One line in Ff.

[3590] Citizens.] Cit. Capell. All. Ff.

[3591] _God-den_] Dyce. _Gooden_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _Good-e'en_ F₄. _Good den_ Collier.

[3592] _our_] F₁ F₂. om. F₃ F₄.

[3593] _Live_] _Live, live_ Capell.

[3594] _we wish'd ... did_] As in Hanmer. One line in Ff.

[3595] _ambitious ... thinking,_] F₄. _ambitious, past all thinking_ F₁ F₂ F₃.

[3596] _Self-loving,--–_] Capell. _Selfe-loving._ Ff.

[3597] _And affecting ... assistance_] As in Theobald. One line in Ff.

[3598] _sole_] _whose_ Rowe (ed. 2).

[3599] _assistance_] _assistants_ Hanmer. _assistance in't_ Steevens conj. _assistancy_ S. Walker conj.

_I think_] _Nay, I think_ Pope. _I do think_ Seymour conj.

[3600] _should_] _had_ Pope. _should have_ Malone conj.

_lamentation_] _lamention_ F₁.

[3601] _consul_] _counsell_ F₂.

_found_] _have found_ Keightley (Malone conj.)

[3602] _Destroy_] _Destroys_ Rowe (ed. 2).

[3603] _Come ... Marcius_] As in Steevens (1793). One line in Ff.

[3604] _whipp'd. It_] _whipt. It_ Pope. _whipt, it_ Ff.

[3605] _have_] F₄. _hath_ F₁ F₂ F₃.

[3606] _Tell ... be_] As in Pope. One line in Ff.

[3607] _some_] _sour_ Seymour conj.

_come_] Rowe. _comming_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _coming_ F₄. _come in_ Malone.

[3608] _deliver'd_] _delivered_ Rowe.

[3609] _young'st_] _youngest_ Rowe.

[3610] _Likely!_ Bru. _Raised ... again._ Sic. _The...._] _likely Raised ... again._ Bru. _The...._ Badham conj.

[3611] _Good_] Ff. _God_ Collier (Collier MS.)

[3612] _atone_] F₄. _attone_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _be one_ Pope. _attune_ Becket conj.

[3613] _violentest_] Pope. _violent'st_ Ff.

_contrariety_] _contrarieties_ Hanmer. _contraries_ Capell, ending the previous line at _can_.

Enter....] Enter another Messenger. Hanmer. Enter Messenger. Ff.

[3614] Sec. Mess.] 2 Mes. Hanmer. Mes. Ff.

[3615] _and have_] _they've_ Hanmer.

[3616] _noses,--_] Capell. _noses._ Ff.

[3617] _cement_] F₄. _ciment_ F₁ F₂ F₃.

[3618] _auger's bore_] _augers bore_ F₄. _augors boare_ F₁ F₂. _augors boar_ F₃.

_your_] F₁. _the_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[3619] _join'd with_] _joyned with the_ Rowe.

_Volscians,--_] Theobald. _Volscians,_ Rowe. _Volceans._ F₁ F₂ F₃. _Volscians._ F₄. _the Volscians_ Rowe.

[3620] _If!... thing_] As in Capell. One line in Ff.

[3621] _flies_] _sheep_ Capell conj. _pigs_ Leo conj.

_You have_] _You've_ Pope.

[3622] _you that_] _that_ Pope.

[3623] _He'll_] _He will_ Steevens, ending line 99 at _shake_.

[3624] _He'll ... work_] As in Capell. Three lines, ending _cares ... fruite: ... worke,_ in Ff.

[3625] _regions_] _legions_ Grant White (Becket conj.) _region cities_ Badham conj.

[3626] _smilingly_] _seemingly_ Warburton. _smitingly_ Becket conj.

_resist_] Hanmer. _resists_ Ff.

[3627] _mock'd for_] _only mock'd for_ Hanmer. _mocked for their_ Keightley. _merely mock'd for_ Anon. conj.

[3628] _Who is't ... unless_] As two lines, the first ending _his,_ S. Walker conj.

[3629] _We are_] _We're_ Pope.

[3630] _for his_] _his_ Pope.

[3631] _they charged ... show'd_] _they charge ... shew'd_ Pope. _they charge ... shew_ Johnson conj. _they'd charge ... shew_ Malone conj.

[3632] _'Tis true ... brand_] As in Pope. One line in Ff.

[3633] _should_] _would_ Rowe.

[3634] _You have_] _You've_ Pope.

[3635] _crafts! you_] _crafts, you_ Ff. _handy-crafts_ Collier (Collier MS.)

[3636] Both Tri.] Dyce. Tri. Ff.

_So_] Rowe. _S'_ Ff.

[3637] _How ... city_] As in Pope. Four lines, ending _him, ... nobles, ... hoote ... citty,_ in Ff.

[3638] _was it_] Pope. _was't_ Ff.

[3639] _cowardly_] _coward_ Pope.

_unto_] _to_ Pope.

[3640] _did hoot_] _hooted_ Hanmer.

[3641] SCENE VII. Pope.

[3642] _cast_] _cast-up_ Keightley.

[3643] _at ... coming_] As in Pope. One line in Ff.

[3644] _Coriolanus'_] _Coriolanus_ Ff. _Coriolanus's_ Rowe.

_Now_] F₁ F₄. _How_ F₂ F₃.

[3645] _could_] _shou'd_ Rowe.

[3646] Citizens.] Cit. Capell. Omnes. Ff.

[3647] Third Cit.] 2. F₂.

[3648] _Ye're_] Dyce. _Y'are_ Ff. _You're_ Capell. _You are_ Steevens.

_things, you_] Ff. _things; you_ Rowe. _things. You_ Johnson.

_voices_] _Volsces_ Becket conj.

[3649] _You ... Capitol_] Arranged as in Capell, who reads _made you_. In Ff the first line ends at _worke_.

[3650] _made_] F₁. _made you_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[3651] [Exeunt....] Exeunt Com. and Men. Capell. Exeunt both. Ff. Exeunt. Rowe.

[3652] [Exeunt Citizens.] Ex. Cit. F₄. Exit Cit. F₁ F₂ F₃.

[3653] _Would buy_] _Could buy_ Leo conj.

_buy_] _by_ F₂.

_let us_] Pope. _let's_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _lets_ F₄.

[Exeunt.] Exeunt Tribunes. Ff.

[3654] SCENE VII.] Capell. SCENE V. Rowe. SCENE VIII. Pope.

A camp....] Theobald. A camp. Pope.

Enter....] Ff. Enter, marching, Aufidius, and a Volcian Officer: Forces at a Distance. Capell.

[3655] Lieu.] Off. Capell (and throughout the scene).

[3656] _now, Unless_] _now. Unless_ Rowe (ed. 2).

[3657] _proudlier_] F₁. _proudly_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[3658] _Join’d ... solely_] As in Malone. Two lines, ending _borne ... soly,_ in Ff. Three lines, ending _born ... him ... solely,_ in Pope.

[3659] _either Had borne_] Malone. _either have borne_ Ff. _had born_ Pope. _either born_ Capell.

[3660] _Although_] _though_ Pope.

[3661] _Whene'er ... beseech you_] As in Ff. As one line, S. Walker conj., reading _When_ for _Whene'er_, or _'Beseech_ for _Sir, I beseech_.

[3662] _Sir, I beseech you_] _Sir, I beseech_ Pope. _But, Sir, 'Beseech you_ Capell.

[3663] _yield_] _yeelds_ F₁.

[3664] _senators_] _senator_ F₂.

[3665] _osprey_] Theobald. _aspray_ Ff.

[3666] _'twas_] om. Pope.

[3667] _defect_] _detect_ F₁.

[3668] _Which ... of_] _Whereof he was the lord_ Pope.

_nature_] _nature in him_ Keightley.

[3669] Badham would end the lines at _not ... from_.

[3670] _casque_] Steevens. _caske_ F₁ F₂. _cask_ F₃ F₄.

[3671] _As ... him_] Put in parentheses by Hanmer. In Ff the words _As he ... them all_ only are put in parentheses.

[3672] _not all_] _not gall_ Heath conj.

[3673] _banish'd_] After this Staunton conjectures that there is a chasm.

_a merit_] _merit_ Pope.

[3674] _To choke it_] _Tho' choaks it_ Hanmer. _Though he choak it_ Capell. _To choak him_ Mason conj.

_our virtues_] _our vertue_, F₁. _doth virtue_ Brae conj.

[3675] _Lie_] _Live_ Collier (Collier MS.)

[3676] _unto_] _in_ Hanmer.

_commendable_] _condemnable_] Jackson conj.

_not ... chair_] _but a tomb for envy as a sharer_ Bullock conj.

_tomb ... a chair_] _Tombe ... a Chaire_ F₁ F₂. _Tomb ... a Chair_ F₃ F₄. _tomb ... a hair_ Singer. _tomb ... a cheer_ Collier (Collier MS.) _tomb ... care_ Mitford conj. _tomb so eloquent as a cheer_ Grant White conj. (withdrawn). _tongue so eloquent as a chair_ Id. conj. _trump so evident as a child's_ Bailey conj. _tomb as eloquent as a tear_ Hudson conj. _tomb so evident as a claim_ Leo conj. _tongue so evident as a charmer's_ Keightley.

[3677] _Rights ... fouler_] Ff. _Right's by right fouler_ Pope. _Right's by right foiled_ Hanmer. _Right's by right fouled_ Warburton. _Rights by rights founder_ Malone (Johnson conj.) _Rights by rights foul are_ Ritson conj. _Rights by rights foil'd are_ Singer. _Rights by rights suffer_ Collier (Collier MS.) _Rights by rights falter_ Dyce. _Rights by rights sunder_ Anon conj.

[3678] _Thou art_] _Thou'rt Pope._