Even from this instant, banish him our city; In peril of precipitation From off the rock Tarpeian, never more To enter our Rome gates: I' the people's name, Cit. It shall be so, It shall be so; let him away: he's banish'd, And so it shall be. Com. Hear me, my masters, and my common friends; Sic. He's sentenc'd: no more hearing. Com. Let me speak: I have been consul, and can show from Rome, Her enemies' marks upon me. I do love My country's good, with a respect more tender, More holy, and profound, than mine own life, My dear wife's estimate t, her womb's increase, And treasure of my loins; then if I would Speak that Sic. We know your drift: Speak what? Bru. There's no more to be said, but he is ba nish'd, As enemy to the people, and his country: It shall be so. Cit. It shall be so, it shall be so. Cor. You common cry of curs! whose breath I hate As reek o'the rotten fens, whose loves I prize That do corrupt my air, I banish you; * For. ↑ Value. Pack. $ Vapour. Abated* captives, to some nation That won you without blows! Despising, [Exeunt Coriolanus, Cominius, Menenius, Senators, and Patricians. Edi. The people's enemy is gone, is gone! Cit. Our enemy's banish'd! he is gone! Hoo! hoo! D [The People shout, and throw up their caps. Sic. Go, see him out at gates, and follow him, As he hath follow'd you, with all despite ; Give him deserv'd vexation. Let a guard Attend us through the city. Cit. Come, come, let us see him out at gates; come: The gods preserve our noble tribunes!-Come. [Exeunt. ACT IV. SCENE I. The same. Before a gate of the city. Enter Coriolanus, Volumnia, Virgilia, Menenius, Cominius, and several young Patricians. Cor. Come, leave your tears; a brief farewell:-the beast t With many heads butts me away.-Nay, mother, craves *Subdued. + The government of the people. A noble cunning: you were us'd to load me Vir. O heavens! O heavens ! Cor. Nay, I pr'ythee, woman,— Vol. Now the red pestilence strike all trades in Rome, And occupations perish! Cor. What, what, what! I shall be lov❜d when I am lack'd. Nay, mother, Six of his labours you'd have done, and sav'd And venomous to thine eyes.-My sometime general, As 'tis to laugh at them.-My mother, you wot well, Like to a lonely dragon, that his fen Makes fear'd, and talk'd of more than seen), your son Will, or exceed the common, or be caught With cautelous t baits and practice. Vol. My first son, Whither wilt thou go? Take good Cominius O the gods! Cor. Com. I'll follow thee a month, devise with thee Where thou shalt rest, that thou may'st hear of us, And we of thee: so, if the time thrust forth * Foolish. Exposure. + Insidious. Noblest. A cause for thy repeal, we shall not send Cor. Fare ye well: Thou hast years upon thee; and thou art too full Men. That's worthily As any ear can hear.-Come, let's not weep.If I could shake off but one seven years From these old arms and legs, by the good gods, I'd with thee every foot. Sic. Bid them all home; he's gone, and we'll no further. The nobility are vex'd, who, we see, have sided In his behalf. Bru. Now we have shown our power, Let us seem humbler after it is done, Than when it was a doing. True metal. Sic. Bid them home: Say, their great enemy is gone, and they Vol. O, you're well met: The hoarded plague o'the gods Requite your love! Men. Peace, peace; be not so loud. Vol. If that I could for weeping, you should hear, Nay, and you shall hear some. Will you be gone? [To Brutus. Vir. You shall stay too: [To Sicin.] I would, I had the power To say so to my husband. Sic. Are you mankind? Vol. Ay, fool; is that a shame ?-Note but this, fool. Was not a man my father? Hadst thou foxship Sic. O blessed heavens ! Vol. More noble blows, than ever thou wise words; And for Rome's good.-I'll tell thee what;-Yet go: Nay but thou shalt stay too :-I would my son Were in Arabia, and thy tribe before him, His good sword in his hand. Mean cunning. |