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The Tragedie of Coriolanus. 23
2817tell how to tearme it.
2819but I thought there was more in him, then I could think.
2821i'th' world.
2823You wot one.
28251 Nay, it's no matter for that.
2828Souldiour.
2830the Defence of a Towne, our Generall is excellent.
2832Enter the third Seruingman.
2834Both. What, what, what? Let's partake.
28353 I would not be a Roman of all Nations; I had as
2836liue be a condemn'd man.
2837Both. Wherefore? Wherefore?
2839nerall, Caius Martius.
2842wayes good enough for him
28432 Come we are fellowes and friends: he was euer too
2846on't before Corioles, he scotcht him, and notcht him like a
2847Carbinado.
28482 And hee had bin Cannibally giuen, hee might haue
2849boyld and eaten him too.
28501 But more of thy Newes.
2852Son and Heire to Mars, set at vpper end o'th' Table: No
2857Newes is, our Generall is cut i'th' middle, & but one halfe
2858of what he was yesterday. For the other ha's halfe, by
2859the intreaty and graunt of the whole Table. Hee'l go he
2861will mowe all downe before him, and leaue his passage
2862poul'd.
28632 And he's as like to do't, as any man I can imagine.
2870the man in blood, they will out of their Burroughes (like
2871Conies after Raine) and reuell all with him.
28721 But when goes this forward:
2874Drum strooke vp this afternoone: 'Tis as it were a parcel
2875of their Feast, and to be executed ere they wipe their lips.
2878and breed Ballad-makers.
2880as day do's night: It's sprightly walking, audible, and full
2881of Vent. Peace, is a very Apoplexy, Lethargie, mull'd,
2883dren, then warres a destroyer of men.
2886maker of Cuckolds.
28871 I, and it makes men hate one another.
2889The Warres for my money. I hope to see Romanes as
2892Enter the two Tribunes, Sicinius, and Brutus.
2893Sicin. We heare not of him, neither need we fear him,
2894His remedies are tame, the present peace,
2895And quietnesse of the people, which before
2896Were in wilde hurry. Heere do we make his Friends
2897Blush, that the world goes well: who rather had,
2901About their Functions friendly.
2902Enter Menenius.
2905Haile Sir. Mene. Haile to you both.
2908do, were he more angry at it.
2909Mene. All's well, and might haue bene much better,
2910if he could haue temporiz'd.
2911Sicin. Where is he, heare you?
2912Mene. Nay I heare nothing:
2913His Mother and his wife, heare nothing from him.
2914Enter three or foure Citizens.
2916Sicin. Gooden our Neighbours.
2917Bru. Gooden to you all, gooden to you all.
2919Are bound to pray for you both.
2920Sicin. Liue, and thriue.
2921Bru. Farewell kinde Neighbours:
2922We wisht Coriolanus had lou'd you as we did.
2923All. Now the Gods keepe you.
2925Sicin. This is a happier and more comely time,
2927Crying Confusion.
2928Bru. Caius Martius was
2930O'recome with Pride, Ambitious, past all thinking
2931Selfe-louing.
2936Bru. The Gods haue well preuented it, and Rome
2938Enter an AEdile.
2939AEdile. Worthy Tribunes,
2940There is a Slaue whom we haue put in prison,
2941Reports the Volces with two seuerall Powers
2942Are entred in the Roman Territories,
2943And with the deepest malice of the Warre,
2944Destroy, what lies before 'em.
2946Who hearing of our Martius Banishment,
2947Thrusts forth his hornes againe into the world
And