Cit. No; no man saw 'em. 3 Cit. He said, he had wounds, show in private; [Several speak. which he could And with his hat, thus waving it in scorn, As Bru. you Could you not have told him, were lesson'd,-When he had no power, But was a petty servant to the state, He was your enemy; ever spake against Sic. ignorant to see't?] Were you ignorant to see it, is, did you want knowledge to discern it? 7 Would think upon you-] Would retain a grateful remembrance of you, &c. As cause had call'd you up, have held him to; Tying him to aught; so, putting him to rage, Bru. Did you perceive, He did solicit you in free contempt, 8 When he did need your loves; and do you think, That his contempt shall not be bruising to you, When he hath power to crush? Why, had your bodies No heart among you? Or had you tongues, to cry Against the rectorship of judgment? Have you, Sic. 3 Cit. He's not confirm'd, we may deny him yet. 2 Cit. And will deny him: I'll have five hundred voices of that sound. 1 Cit. I twice five hundred, and their friends to piece 'em. Bru. Get you hence instantly; and tell those friends, They have chose a consul, that will from them take Than dogs, that are as often beat for barking, Let them assemble; Sic. Your ignorant election: Enforce his pride, - free contempt,] That is, with contempt open and unrestrained. 9 objection. Enforce his pride,] Object his pride, and enforce the With what contempt he wore the humble weed; Bru. Sic. Than what you should, made you against the grain To voice him consul: Lay the fault on us. Bru. Ay, spare us not. Say, we read lectures to you, How youngly he began to serve his country, How long continued: and what stock he springs of, Sic. 1his present portance,] i. e. carriage. 2 Scaling his present bearing with his past,] That is, weighing his past and present behaviour. Your sudden approbation. Bru. Say, you ne'er had done't. (Harp on that still,) but by our putting on:3 And presently, when you have drawn your number, Repair to the Capitol. Cit. We will so: Repent in their election. Bru. almost all [Several speak. [Exeunt Citizens. Let them go on; This mutiny were better put in hazard, If, as his nature is, he fall in rage With their refusal, both observe and answer To the Capitol: Sic. Come; we'll be there before the stream o'the people; And this shall seem, as partly 'tis, their own, Which we have goaded onward. [Exeunt ACT III. SCENE I. The same. A Street. Cornets. Enter CORIOLANUS, MENENIUS, COMINIUS, TITUS LARTIUS, Senators, and Patricians. Cor. Tullus Aufidius then had made new head? Lart. He had, my lord; and that it was, which caus'd Our swifter composition. Cor. So then the Volces stand but as at first; Ready, when time shall prompt them, to make road The vantage of his anger.] Mark, catch, and improve the opportunity, which his hasty anger will afford us. Lart. On safe-guard he came to me; and did curse Against the Volces, for they had so vilely Yielded the town: he is retir'd to Antium. Lart. Cor. He did, my lord. How? what? Lart. How often he had met you, sword to sword: That, of all things upon the earth, he hated Your person most: that he would pawn his fortunes To hopeless restitution, so he might Be call'd your vanquisher. Cor. Lart. At Antium. At Antium lives he? Cor. I wish, I had a cause to seek him there, To oppose his hatred fully.-Welcome home. [TO LARTIUS. Enter SICINIUS and BRUTUS. Behold! these are the tribunes of the people, them; For they do prank them in authority, Against all noble sufferance. On safe-guard he came to me;] i. e. with a convoy, a guard appointed to protect him. selves. prank them in authority,] Plume, deck, dignify them |