1900Scici. Heare me, People peace.

1901All. Let's here our Tribune: peace, speake, speake,

1902speake.

1903Scici. You are at point to lose your Liberties:

1904Martius would haue all from you; Martius,

1905Whom late you haue nam'd for Consull.

1906Mene. Fie, fie, fie, this is the way to kindle, not to

1907quench.

1908Sena. To vnbuild the Citie, and to lay all flat.

1909Scici. What is the Citie, but the People?

1910All. True, the People are the Citie.

1911Brut. By the consent of all, we were establish'd the

1912Peoples Magistrates.

1913All. You so remaine.

1914Mene. And so are like to doe.

1915Com. That is the way to lay the Citie flat,

1916To bring the Roofe to the Foundation,

1917And burie all, which yet distinctly raunges

1918In heapes, and piles of Ruine.

1919Scici. This deserues Death.

1920Brut. Or let vs stand to our Authoritie,

1921Or let vs lose it: we doe here pronounce,

1922Vpon the part o'th' People, in whose power

1923We were elected theirs, Martius is worthy

1924Of present Death.

1925Scici. Therefore lay hold of him:

1926Beare him to th'Rock Tarpeian, and from thence

1927Into destruction cast him.

1928Brut. AEdiles seize him.

1929All Ple. Yeeld Martius, yeeld.

1930Mene. Heare me one word, 'beseech you Tribunes,

1931heare me but a word.

1932AEdiles. Peace, peace.

1933Mene. Be that you seeme, truly your Countries friend,

1934And temp'rately proceed to what you would

1935Thus violently redresse.

1936Brut. Sir, those cold wayes,

1937That seeme like prudent helpes, are very poysonous,

1938Where the Disease is violent. Lay hands vpon him,

1939And beare him to the Rock. Corio. drawes his Sword.

1940Corio. No, Ile die here:

1941There's some among you haue beheld me fighting,

1942Come trie vpon your selues, what you haue seene me.

1943Mene. Downe with that Sword, Tribunes withdraw

1944a while.

1945Brut. Lay hands vpon him.

1946Mene. Helpe Martius, helpe: you that be noble, helpe

1947him young and old.

1948All. Downe with him, downe with him. Exeunt.

1951Mene. Goe, get you to our House: be gone, away,

1952All will be naught else.

19532. Sena. Get you gone.

1954Com. Stand fast, we haue as many friends as enemies.

1955Mene. Shall it be put to that?

1956Sena. The Gods forbid:

1957I prythee noble friend, home to thy House,

1958Leaue vs to cure this Cause.

1959Mene. For 'tis a Sore vpon vs,

1960You cannot Tent your selfe: be gone, 'beseech you.

1961Corio. Come Sir, along with vs.

1962Mene. I would they were Barbarians, as they are,

1963Though in Rome litter'd: not Romans, as they are not,

1964Though calued i'th' Porch o'th' Capitoll:

1965Be gone, put not your worthy Rage into your Tongue,

1966One time will owe another.

1967Corio. On faire ground, I could beat fortie of them.

1968Mene. I could my selfe take vp a Brace o'th' best of

1969them, yea, the two Tribunes.

1970Com. But now 'tis oddes beyond Arithmetick,

1971And Manhood is call'd Foolerie, when it stands

1972Against a falling Fabrick. Will you hence,

1973Before the Tagge returne? whose Rage doth rend

1974Like interrupted Waters, and o're-beare

1975What they are vs'd to beare.

1976Mene. Pray you be gone:

1977Ile trie whether my old Wit be in request

1978With those that haue but little: this must be patcht

1979With Cloth of any Colour.

1980Com. Nay, come away. Exeunt Coriolanus and

1982Patri. This man ha's marr'd his fortune.

1983Mene. His nature is too noble for the World:

1984He would not flatter Neptune for his Trident,

1985Or Ioue, for's power to Thunder: his Heart's his Mouth:

1986What his Brest forges, that his Tongue must vent,

1987And being angry, does forget that euer

1988He heard the Name of Death. A Noise within.

1989Here's goodly worke.

1990Patri. I would they were a bed.

1991Mene. I would they were in Tyber.

1992What the vengeance, could he not speake 'em faire?

1994Sicin. Where is this Viper,

1995That would depopulate the city, & be euery man himself

1996Mene. You worthy Tribunes.

1997Sicin. He shall be throwne downe the Tarpeian rock

1998With rigorous hands: he hath resisted Law,

1999And therefore Law shall scorne him further Triall

2000Then the seuerity of the publike Power,

2001Which he so sets at naught.

20021 Cit. He shall well know the Noble Tribunes are

2003The peoples mouths, and we their hands.

2004All. He shall sure ont.

2005Mene. Sir, sir. Sicin. Peace.

2006Me. Do not cry hauocke, where you shold but hunt

2007With modest warrant.

2008Sicin. Sir, how com'st that you haue holpe

2009To make this rescue?

2010Mene. Heere me speake? As I do know

2011The Consuls worthinesse, so can I name his Faults.

2012Sicin. Consull? what Consull?

2013Mene. The Consull Coriolanus.

2014Bru. He Consull.

2015All. No, no, no, no, no.

2016Mene. If by the Tribunes leaue,

2017And yours good people,

2018I may be heard, I would craue a word or two,

2019The which shall turne you to no further harme,

2020Then so much losse of time.

2021Sic. Speake breefely then,

2022For we are peremptory to dispatch

2023This Viporous Traitor: to eiect him hence

2024Were but one danger, and to keepe him heere

2025Our certaine death: therefore it is decreed,

2026He dyes to night.

2027Menen. Now the good Gods forbid,

2028That our renowned Rome, whose gratitude

2029Towards her deserued Children, is enroll'd

2030In Ioues owne Booke, like an vnnaturall Dam

2031Should now eate vp her owne.