Your ignorance", (which finds not, till it feels,)
Making not reservation of yourselves,
(Still your own foes,) deliver you, as most
Abated captives, to some nations,

That won you without blows! Despising,
For you, the city, thus I turn my back:
There is a world elsewhere..

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[Exeunt CORIOLANUS, COMINIUS, MENENIUS, Senators, and Patricians.

orded. The people's enemy is gone,

Cit. Our enemy's banish'd! he is
Screed SpA

Choo!

is gone!

gone! Hoo!

[The people shout, and 'throw up their caps.

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see him
out at gates, and follow
930 him,

As he hath follow'd you, with all despite:
Give him deserv'd vexation. Let a guard
Attend us through city,

Cit. Come, come, let us see him out at gates;

come; om ak

The gods preserve our noble tribunes!! -Come. [Exeunt.

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disand ACTIV. SCENEDIAS

The same. Before a Gate of the City.

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Enter CORIOLANUS, VOLUMNIA, VIRCILTA, MENENIUS, COMINIUS, and several young Pa

tricians.

Cor. Come, leave your tears; a brief farewell : the beast

With many heads butts me away. -Nay, "mo ther,

Where is your ancient courage? you were us'd
To say, extremity was the trier of spirits;
That common chauces common men could bear;
That, when the sea was calm, all boats alikew
Show'd mastership in floating fortunes blows,
When most struck home, being gentle wounded,

craves

A noble cunning: you were 'us'd to load me cl
With precepts, that would make invincible
The heart that coun'd them,

Vir, O heavens! O heavens!

Cor. Nay, I pr'ythee, woman,

Vol. Now the red pestilence strike all trades in

And occupations perish!

Cor

Rome,

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What, what, what!

I shall be lov'd, when I am lack'd. Nay, mo

ther,

Resume that spirit, when you were wont to say,
If you had been the wife of Hercules,
Six of his

Your

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labours you'd have done, and sav'd' husband so much sweat. Cominius, Droop not; adieu; - Farewell, ny wile! my mother!

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I'll do well yet. Thou old and true Menenius,
Thy tears are salter than a younger man's,
And venomous to thine eyes.

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general

My sometime

I have seen thee stern, and thou hast of beheld
Heart-hard'ning spectacles; tell these sad women,
'Tis fond to wail inevitable strokes,
My mother, you wot

As 'tis to laugh at them,

My hazards still have solace; and

Believ't not lightly, (though I go alone,
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 baits and practice.

Vol. My first son, smi

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Whither wilt thou go? Take good Cominius
With thee a while: Determine on some course,
More than a wild exposture to each chance
That starts i' the way before thee,

Cor. O the gods!

Com. I'll follow thee a month, devise with ow thee

Where thou shalt rest, that thou may'st hear of us,
And we of thee; so, if the time thrust forth
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 thee needer.

Cor, Fare ye well!

in thee;

Thou hast years upon
and thou art too full
Of the wars' surfeus, to go rove with one
That's yet unbruis'd: 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,
While I remain above the gronnd, 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.

Came, 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,

Enter SICINIUS, BRUTUS, and an Aedile.VI dirnd T

Sic. Bid them all home; he's gone, and we'll no further.

The nobility are vex'd, who, we see; have sided lu his behalf.

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Bru. How we have shown our power, rot bird Let us seem humbler after it is done,

Than when it was a doing. leads to Ind. 76/1

Sic. Bid them home: * uma estark ui 9rW Say, their great enemy is gone, and theyboop sill Stand in their ancient strength. Bru. Dismiss them home.

Enter VOLUMNIA, VIRGILIA,

Here comes his mother.

Sess[Exit Aedile.

A and MENENIUS.

Bru. Why?

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Sic. They say, she's mad.

Bru. They have taʼen note of us!

te of us!

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Vol. 0,

Keep on you re

Requite your love!

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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 fuck more blows for Rome, father? Hadst thou foxship

To banish him that

Than thou hast spoken words?mit bid die Sic. O blessed heavens!

bKol. More noble blows, than ever thou wise

words;

Usand And for Rome's good. I'll tell thee what;

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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?

Mira Whai then?

He'd make an end of thy posterity.

Good man,

Vol. Bastards, and
and all.

that he does bear for

Rome!

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Men. Come, come, peace.

Sic. I would he had continu'd to his country,

As he began; and not unknit himself

The noble knot he made,

Bru.. I would he had.

Vol. I would he had? 'Twas you incens'd the

rabble:

Cats, that can judge as fitly of his worth,

As I can of those mysteries which heaven
Will not have earth to know.

Bru. Pray, let us go.