CORIOLANUS.

SICINIUS VELUTUS,

JUNIUS BRUTUS,

} Tribunes of the People.

YOUNG MARCIUS, Son to CORIOLANUS.

A Roman Herald.

TULLUS AUFIDIUS, General of the Volscians.
Lieutenant to AUFIDIUS.

Conspirators with AUFIDIUS.

A Citizen of Antium.

Two Volscian Guards.

VOLUMNIA, Mother to CORIOLANUS.

VIRGILIA, Wife to CORIOLANUS.

VALERIA, Friend to VIRGILIA.

Gentlewoman attending VIRGILIA.

Roman and Volscian Senators, Patricians, Ediles, Lictors, Soldiers, Citizens, Messengers, Servants to AUFIDIUS, and other Attendants.

SCENE, partly in Rome; and partly in the Territories of the Volscians and Antiates.

CORIOLANUS.

ACT I.

SCENE I.-Rome.-A Street.

Enter a Company of mutinous Citizens, with staves, clubs, and other weapons.

1 Cit. Before we proceed any farther, hear me speak. Cit. Speak, speak. [Several speaking at once. 1 Cit. You are all resolved rather to die, than to famish?