Men. Only, fair speech. Com. I think, 'twill ferve, if he Can thereto frame his fpirit. Vol. He muft and will: Pr'ythee now, fay you will, and go about it. Com. Come, come, we'll prompt you. Vol. Ay, pr'ythee now, fweet fon; as thou haft faid, My praifes made thee firft a foldier, fo, To have my praife for this, perform a part Cor. Well, I must do't: Away, my difpofition, and poffefs me Some harlot's fpirit! my throat of war be turn'd, Make motion through my lips, and my arm'd knees, Vol. At thy choice then: (29) Yet were there but this fingle plot, to lofe This mould of Marcius,] The pointing of all the impreffions fhews, the editors did not understand this paffage. What plot is this, they are dreaming of, to lofe the mould of Marcius ?---but plot and mould are but one and the fame thing; and mean no more than the flesh and "Were there no other con fays he, than the deftruction of my body, they "<fequences of barcus's body. fhould grind it to powder; c T 4 Το To beg of thee, it is my more dishonour, Cor. Pray, be content: Mother, I'm going to the market-place : Chide me no more. I'll mountebank their loves, Or never truft to what my tongue can do Vol. Do your will. [Exit Volumnia. Com. Away, the tribunes do attend you: arm Yourself to anfwer mildly: for they're prepar'd With accufations, as I hear, more strong Than are upon you yet. Cor. The word is, mildly.-Pray you, let us go. Let them accufe me by invention; I Will anfwer in mine honour. Men. Ay, but mildly. Cor. Well, mildly be it then, mildly. [Exeuns. SCENE changes to the Forum. Enter Sicinius and Brutus.. Bru. TN this point charge him home, that he affects Tyrannic power; if he evade us there, IN Inforce him with his envy to the people, And that the spoil, got on the Antiates, Enter an Edile. Ed. He's coming. Bru. How accompanied ? Ed. With old Menenius, and thofe fenators That always favour'd him. Sic. Have you a catalogue Of all the voices that we have procur'd, Ed. I have; 'tis ready, here.. Sic. Have you collected them by tribes? Sic. Affemble prefently the people hither, I' th' right and ftrength o' th' commons; (be it either And power i' th' truth o' th' cause. Ed. I will inform them. Bru. And when fuch time they have begun to cry, Let them not cease, but with a din confus'd Inforce the present execution Of what we chance to fentence. Ed. Very well. Sic. Make them be ftrong, and ready for this hint, When we shall hap to give't them. Bru. Go about it. [Exit Edile. Put him to choler ftreight; he hath been us'd Of contradiction. Being once chaft, he cannot Enter Coriolanus, Menenius, and Cominius, with others. Men. Calmly, I do befeech you. Cor. Ay, as an hoftler, that for the pooreft piece Will bear the knave by th' volume:-The honour'd gods Keep Rome in fafety, and the chairs of juftice Supply with worthy men, (30) plant love amongst you, Throng (30) -plant love among you Through our large temples with the fhews of peace, And not our freets with war.] Though this be the reading of all the copies, it is flat nonfenfe. There is no verb either expreft, Throng our large temples with the fhews of peace, 1 Sen. Amen, amen. Men. A noble with. Enter the Edile with the Plebeians. Sic. Draw near, ye people. Ed. Lift to your tribunes: audience; Peace, I fay. Cor. First, hear me fpeak. Both Tri. Well, fay: peace, ho. Cor. Shall I be charg'd no farther than this prefent? Muft all dete mine here? If Sic. I do demand, you fubmit you to the people's voices, Allow their officers, and are content To fuffer lawful cenfure for fuch faults Cor. I am content. Men. Lo, citizens, he fays, he is content: Cor. Scratches with briars, fcars to move laughter only. That when he speaks not like a citizen, You find him like a foldier; (31) do not take is rougher accents for malicious founds: o underfood, that can govern the latter part of the fentence. I have no doubt of my emendation reftoring the text rightly, becaufe Mr Warburton ftarted the fame conjecture, unknowing that I had meddled with the paflage." (31) - do not take His rougher actions for malicious founds:] I have no manner of apprehenfion how a man's actions can be mistaken for words. It would be very abfurd, as well as extraordinary, were I to do a faucy thing in company, for the perfon offended to tell me, Sir, you give me very impudent language. This would be, certainly, taking actions for founds: We may remember, a roughness of accent was one of Coriolanus's diftinguishing characteristicks. I corrected this paffage in the appendix to my SHAKESPEARE reflor'd, and Mr. Pope has embraced it in his last edition. But, But, as I fay, fuch as become a foldier. Rather than envy, you Com. Well, well, no more. Cor. What is the matter, That being paft for conful with full voice,. Sic. Anfwer to us. Cor. Say then: 'tis true, I ought fo. Sic. We charge you, that you have contriv'd to take From Rome all feafon'd office, and to wind Yourself unto a power tyrannical; For which you are a traitor to the people. Men. Nay, temperately: your promife. Cor. The fires i' th' loweft hell fold in the people! Call me their traitor! thou injurious tribune! Within thine eyes fate twenty thousand deaths, In thy hands clutch'd as many millions, in Thy lying tongue both numbers; I would fay, Thou lieft, unto thee, with a voice as free, As I do pray the gods. Sic. Mark you this, people? All. To th' rock with him. We need not put new matter to his charge: Deferves th' extreameft death. Bru. But fince he hath Serv'd well for Rome Cor. What do you prate of service? Men. Is this the promise, that you made your mother? Com. Know, I pray you Cor. I'll know no farther: Let |