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Did shake down mellow fruit: You have made fair

work!

Bru. But is this true, sir?

Com.

Ay; and you'll look pale

Before you find it other. All the regions

Do smilingly revolt; and, who resist,
Are only mock'd for valiant ignorance,

And perish constant fools. Who is't can blame him?
Your enemies, and his, find something in him.

Men. We are all undone,

The noble man have mercy.

unless

Who shall ask it?

Com.
The tribunes cannot do't for shame; the people
Deserve such pity of him, as the wolf

Does of the shepherds: for his best friends, if they
Should say, Be good to Rome, they charg'd him even
As those should do that had deserv'd his hate,
And therein show'd like enemies.

Men.

"Tis true:

If he were putting to my house the brand
That should consume it, I have not the face

Το say, 'Beseech you, cease. You have made fair

You, and

Com.

hands,

your crafts! you have crafted fair!

A trembling upon Rome, such as was never

So incapable of help.

Tri.

You have brought

Say not, we brought it.

Men. How! Was it we? We lov'd him; but,

like beasts,

And cowardly nobles, gave way to your clusters,

9 Revolt with pleasure.

Who did hoot him out o'the city.

Com.

But, I fear
They'll roar him in again. Tullus Aufidits,
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.

Men.

Enter a Troop of Citizens.

Here come the clusters.

And is Aufidius with him?-You are they

That made the air unwholesome, when you cast
Your stinking, greasy caps, in hooting at
Coriolanus' exile. Now he's coming;

And not a hair upon a soldier's head,

Which will not prove a whip; as many coxcombs,
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,

We have deserv'd it.

Cit. 'Faith, we hear fearful news.

1 Cit.

For mine own part,

When I said, banish him, I said, 'twas pity.

2 Cit. And so did I.

3 Cit. And so did I; and, to say the truth, so did very many of us: That we did, we did for the best : and though we willingly consented to his banishment, yet it was against our will.

Com. You are goodly things, you voices!

Men.

You have made

Good work, you and your cry!'-Shall us to the

Capitol ?

Pack; alluding to a pack of hounds.

Com. O, ay; what else?

[Exeunt Coм. and MEN. Sic. Go, masters, get you home, be not dismay'd; 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.

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

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

Bru. I do not like this news.

Sic. Nor I.

[Exeunt Citizens.

Bru. Let's to the Capitol :-Would, half my wealth Would buy this for a lie!

Sic.

Pray, let us go. [Exeunt,

SCENE VII.

A Camp; at a small distance from Rome.

Enter AUFIDIUS, and his Lieutenant.

Auf. Do they still fly to the Roman ?

Lieu. I do not know what witchcraft's in him; but

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,

Even by your own.

Auf.

I cannot help it now;

Unless, by using means, I lame the foot

Of our design. He bears himself more proudlier
Even to my person, than I thought he would,

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When first I did embrace him: Yet his nature
In that's no changeling; and I must excuse
What cannot be amended.

Yet I wish, sir,

Lieu.
(I mean for your particular,) you had not
Join'd in commission with him: but either
Had borne the action of yourself, or else
To him had left it solely.

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, And so he thinks, and is no less apparent

To the vulgar eye, that he bears all things fairly,
And shows good husbandry for the Volcian 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,
Whene'er we come to our account.

Lieu. Sir, I beseech you, think you he'll carry Rome? Auf. All places yield to him ere he sits down; And the nobility of Rome are his :

The senators, and patricians, love him too :
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 osprey2 to the fish, who takes it

By sovereignty of nature.

A noble servant to them;

First he was

but he could not

Carry his honours even whether 'twas pride,
Which out of daily fortune ever taints

The happy man; whether defect of judgment,

2 An eagle that preys on fish.

To fail in the disposing of those chances
Which he was lord of; or whether nature,
Not to be other than one thing, not moving

From the casque3 to the cushion, but commanding peace

Even with the same austerity and garb

As he controll'd the war; but, one of these,.
(As he hath spices of them all, not all,s

For I dare so far free him,) made him fear'd,
So hated, and so banish'd: But he has a merit,
To choke it in the utterance. So our virtues
Lie in the interpretation of the time:
And power, unto itself most commendable,
Hath not a tomb so evident as a chair

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. Come, let's away. When, Caius, Rome is thine, Thou art poor'st of all; then shortly art thou mine. [Exeunt.

ACT V.

SCENE I. Rome. A publick Place.

Enter MENENIUS, COMINIUS, SICINIUS, BRUTUS, and Others.

Men. No, I'll not go: you hear, what he hath said, Which was sometime his general ; who lov'd him In a most dear particular. He call'd me, father`: 3 Helmet. 4 The chair of civil authority. 5 Not all in their full extent.

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