But by your voices, will not so permit me ; Your voices therefore. When we granted that, Here was, I thank you for your voices,-thank you,— To yield your voices? As Bru. Could you not have told him, you were lessoned-When he had no power, But was a petty servant to the state, He was your enemy; ever spake against Fast foe to the plebeii, your voices might Sic. Tying him to aught; so, putting him to rage, Bru. Did you perceive, 1 "Did you want knowledge to discern it?" 2 So in the Third Part of King Henry VI. Act v. Sc. 3.:— 66 those powers that the queen Hath raised in Gallia have arrived our coast." 3 i. e. " would retain a grateful remembrance of you," &c. He did solicit you in free contempt,1 When he did need your loves; and do you think Sic. Have you, Ere now, denied the asker? and, now again, 3 Cit. He's not confirmed; we may deny him yet. 2 Cit. And will deny him. I'll have five hundred voices of that sound. 1 Cit. I twice five hundred, and their friends to piece 'em. Bru. Get you hence instantly; and tell those friends, They have chose a consul, that will from them take Than dogs, that are as often beat for barking, Sic. Let them assemble; Bru. Sic. Say you chose him More after our commandment, than as guided By your own true affections; and that, your minds Bru. Ay, spare us not. Say, we read lectures to you, How youngly he began to serve his country, How long continued; and what stock he springs of, And nobly named so, being censor twice, One thus descended, Sic. Bru. 2 Say, you ne'er had done't, (Harp on that still,) but by our putting on ;3 And presently, when you have drawn your number, Cit. We will so; almost all [Several speak. Repent in their election. [Exeunt Citizens. 1 Pope supplied this verse, which the context evidently requires, and which is warranted by the narration in Plutarch, from whence this passage is taken: "The house of the Martians at Rome was of the number of the patricians, out of which sprung many noble personages, whereof Ancus Martius was one, king Numaes daughter's sonne, who was king of Rome after Tullus Hostilius. Of the same house were Publius and Quintus, who brought to Rome their best water they had by conduits. Censorinus came of that familie, that was so surnamed because the people had chosen him censor twice." Publius and Quintus and Censorinus were not the ancestors of Coriolanus, but his descendants. Caius Martius Rutilius did not obtain the name of Censorinus till the year of Rome 487; and the Marcian waters were not brought to the city by aqueducts till the year 613, near 350 years after the death of Coriolanus. Shakspeare has confounded the ancestors and posterity of Coriolanus together. 2 That is, weighing. 3 i. e. our incitation. Bru. Let them go on; This mutiny were better put in hazard, If, as his nature is, he fall in rage With their refusal, both observe and answer To the capitol. Sic. Come, we'll be there before the stream o'the people; And this shall seem, as partly 'tis, their own, Which we have goaded onward. [Exeunt. ACT III. SCENE I. The same. A Street. Cornets. Enter CORIOLANUS, MENENIUS, COMINIUS, TITUS LARTIUS, Senators, and Patricians. Cor. Tullus Aufidius then had made new head? Lart. He had, my lord; and that it was, which caused Our swifter composition. Cor. So then the Volces stand but as at first; Ready, when time shall prompt them, to make road Upon us again. Lart. On safeguard he came to me; and did curse Against the Volces, for they had so vilely Yielded the town. He is retired to Antium. Cor. Spoke he of me? Lart. He did, my lord. 1 Shakspeare has here again given the usage of England to Rome. Cor. How? what? Lart. How often he had met you, sword to sword; That, of all things upon the earth, he hated Your person most; that he would pawn his fortunes To hopeless restitution, so he might Be called your vanquisher. Cor. Lart. At Antium. At Antium lives he? Cor. I wish I had a cause to seek him there, To oppose his hatred fully.-Welcome home. [TO LARTIUS. Enter SICINIUS and BRUtus. Behold! these are the tribunes of the people, them; For they do prank them in authority, Against all noble sufferance. 1 Sen. Tribunes, give way; he shall to the market Must these have voices, that can yield them now, offices? You, being their mouths, why rule you not their teeth? Have you not set them on? Be calm, be calm. |