That now it lies you on to speak to the people; Of no allowance to your bosom's truth. I would dissemble with my nature, where MEN. Noble lady!— Come, go with us; speak fair: you may salve so, VOL. I pr'ythee now, my son, Go to them, with this bonnet in thy hand; And thus far having stretch'd it, (here be with them) a d Thy knee bussing the stones, (for in such business That will not hold the handling: or, say to them, Though but bastards, and syllables, &c.] In this speech we follow the arrangement of the old copies, which though imperfect is infinitely preferable to that adopted by all the modern editions. The verse before us is evidently corrupt; but" seems to have crept in from the preceding line, and some word to have been lost; we may be permitted to guess that it originally ran,"Thought's bastards, and persuading syllables," "Thought's bastards, and glib syllables," COм. I have been i'the market-place; and, sir, 'tis fit You make strong party, or defend yourself If he can thereto frame his spirit. VOL. He must, and will:Pr'ythee now, say you will, and go about it. COR. Must I go show them my unbarbed sconce? Must I with my base tongue give to my noble heart A lie, that it must bear? Well, I will do't: it, And throw't against the wind.-To the marketplace: You have put me now to such a part, which never COM. said My praises made thee first a soldier, so, COR. Who bow'd but in my stirrup, bend like his While often, thus, correcting thy stout heart, That will not hold the handling,-say to them," &c. funbarbed sconce?] Unbarbed here means, bare. uncovered SIC. Assemble presently the people hither: And when they hear me say, It shall be so I' the right and strength o' the commons, be it either For death, for fine, or banishment, then let them, If I say fine, cry Fine;-if death, cry Death; Insisting on the old prerogative And power i' the truth o' the cause. ED. Let them not cease, but with a din confus'd Of what we chance to sentence. Very well. SIC. Make them be strong, and ready for this hint, When we shall hap to give't them. BRU. Go about it. Of contradiction: being once chaf'd he cannot SIC. Well, here he comes. Enter CORIOLANUS, MENENIUS, COMINIUS, Senators, and Patricians. MEN. Calmly, I do beseech you. COR. Ay, as an ostler, that for the poorest piece Will bear the knave by the volume. The honour'd gods Keep Rome in safety, and the chairs of justice Supplied with worthy men! plant love among's ! Throng our large temples with the shows of peace, And not our streets with war! 1 SEN. MEN. A noble wish. SIC. SIC. Have you a catalogue to have his worth Of contradiction] So the old text. Rowe prints, "his word of," &c.; Capell, "his worth of," understanding 'worth to be a contraction of pennyworth; Amen, amen! Re-enter Edile, with Citizens. Draw near, ye people. ED. List to your tribunes; audience! peace, I say! presence SIC. For that he has (As much as in him lies) from time to time Envied against the people, seeking means To pluck away their power; has now at last Given hostile strokes, and that not in the Of dreaded justice, but on the ministers That do distribute it; in the name o' the people, And in the power of us the tribunes, we, Even from this instant, banish him our city; In peril of precipitation From off the rock Tarpeian, never more To enter our Rome gates. I' the people's name, say it shall be so. I a Envied against the people,-] That is, Steevens explains, "behaved with signs of hatred to the people," but "envied" here is perhaps only a misprint of Inveighed; so in North's Plutarch, (Life of Solon):-" But Solon going up into the pulpit for orations, stoutly inveyed against it." b cry of curs!] Cry here means pack. c Making but reservation of yourselves,-] This, since Capell's I have been consul, and can show for* Rome, As enemy to the people and his country: CITIZENS. It shall be so! it shall be so! I hate b As reek o' the rotten fens, whose loves I prize [Exeunt CORIOLANUS, COMINIUS, MENE- |