Sic. I do demand, If you submit you to the people's voices, To suffer lawful censure for such faults As shall be prov'd upon you. Cor. I am content. Men. Lo, citizens, he says, he is content : The warlike service he has done, consider; think Like graves i' the holy church-yard. 640 Cor. Scratches with briars, scars to move laughter only. Men. Consider further, That when he speaks not like a citizen, You find him like a soldier: Do not take Com. Well, well, no more. Cor. What is the matter, 650 That being past for consul with full voice, I am so dishonour'd, that the very hour 660 Sic. Answer to us. Cor. Say then: 'tis true, I ought so. Sic. We charge you, that you have contriv'd to take From Rome all season'd office, and to wind Yourself into a power tyrannical; For which, you are a traitor to the people. Cor. How! Traitor ? Men. Men. Nay; temperately: Your promise. Cor. The fires i' the lowest hell fold in the people! Call me their traitor!-Thou injurious tribune! 670 Within thine eyes sat twenty thousand deaths, In thy hands clutch'd as many millions, in Thy lying tongue both numbers, I would say, Thou liest, unto thee, with a voice as free As I do pray the gods. Sic. Mark you this, people? All. To the rock with him! to the rock with him! Sic. Peace. We need not lay new matter to his charge: 681 What you have seen him do, and heard him speak, Deserves the extremest death. Bru. But since he hath Serv'd well for Rome Cor. What do you prate of service? Cor. You! 690 Men. Is this the promise that you made your mo ther? Com. Know, I pray you Cor. I'll know no further: Let them pronounce the steep Tarpeian death, Their mercy at the price of one fair word; Nor check my courage for what they can give, Sic. For that he has (As much as in him lies) from time to time From off the rock Tarpeian, never more To enter our Rome gates: I' the people's name, All. It shall be so, it shall be so; let him away: He's banish'd, and it shall be so. 700 710 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 shew from Rome, My country's good, with a respect more tender, 720 Sic. We know your drift: Speak what? Bru. Bru. There's no more to be said, but he is banish'd, As enemy to the people, and his country: It shall be so. All. It shall be so, it shall be so. 729 Cor. You common cry of curs! whose breath I hate That do corrupt my air, I banish you ; That won you without blows! Despising, 740 [Exeunt CORIOLANUS, COMINIUS, and others. The People shout, and throw up their Caps. Ed. The people's enemy is gone, is gone 1 All. Our enemy is banish'd! he is gone! Hoo! hoo! Sic. Go, see him out at gates, and follow him, As he hath follow'd you, with all despight; Give him deserv'd vexation. Attend us through the city. 3. Let a guard 750 All. All. Come, come, let us see him out at gates; come: The gods preserve our noble tribunes!-Come. [Exeunt. ACT IV. SCENE I. Before the Gates of Rome. Enter CORIOLANUS, VoLUMNIA, VIRGILIA, MENENIUS, COMINIUS, with the Young Nobility of Rome. Coriolanus. COME, leave your tears; a brief farewel :—the beast craves A noble cunning: you were us'd to load me The heart that conn'd them. Vir. O heavens! O heavens! Cor. Nay, I pr'ythee, woman 10 Vol. Now the red pestilence strike all trades in Rome, And occupations perish! |