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Coriolanus (Folio 1, 1623)
3090Enter Auffidius with his Lieutenant.
3092Lieu. I do not know what Witchcraft's in him: but
3093Your Soldiers vse him as the Grace 'fore meate,
3094Their talke at Table, and their Thankes at end,
3095And you are darkned in this action Sir,
3096Euen by your owne.
3097Auf. I cannot helpe it now,
3100Euen to my person, then I thought he would
3103What cannot be amended.
3105(I meane for your particular) you had not
3106Ioyn'd in Commission with him: but either haue borne
3109When he shall come to his account, he knowes not
3112To th' vulgar eye, that he beares all things fairely:
3114Fights Dragon-like, and does atcheeue as soone
3115As draw his Sword: yet he hath left vndone
3116That which shall breake his necke, or hazard mine,
3117When ere we come to our account.
3120And the Nobility of Rome are his:
3121The Senators and Patricians loue him too:
3122The Tribunes are no Soldiers: and their people
3124To expell him thence. I thinke hee'l be to Rome
3126By Soueraignty of Nature. First, he was
3127A Noble seruant to them, but he could not
3128Carry his Honors eeuen: whether 'was Pride
3129Which out of dayly Fortune euer taints
3130The happy man; whether detect of iudgement,
3132Which he was Lord of: or whether Nature,
3133Not to be other then one thing, not moouing
3136As he controll'd the warre. But one of these
3137(As he hath spices of them all) not all,
3138For I dare so farre free him, made him fear'd,
3140To choake it in the vtt'rance: So our Vertue,
3141Lie in th' interpretation of the time,
3143Hath not a Tombe so euident as a Chaire
3144T'extoll what it hath done.
3147Come let's away: when Caius Rome is thine,