He was your enemy; ever spake against Sic. Tying him to aught; so, putting him to rage, Bru. Did you perceive, He did solicit you in free contempt, When he did need your loves; and do you think, Sic. Have you, Ere now, deny'd the asker? and, now again, 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 Their liberties; make them of no more voice T'han dogs, that are as often beat for barking, As therefore kept to do so. Sic. Let them assemble; Your ignorant election: Enforce his pride, Bru. Sic. 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, The noble house o' th' Marcians; from whence came And nobly nam'd so, being censor twice, Sic. One thus descended, Bru. Say, you ne'er had done't, (Harp on that still,) but by our putting on: And presently, when you have drawn your number, Repair to th' Capitol. Cit. We will so: almost all [Several speak Repent in their election. Bru. [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' th' 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 Upon us again. Com. They are worn, lord consul, so, That we shall hardly in our ages see Their banners wave again. Cor. Saw you Aufidius? 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 LARE Enter SICINIUS and BRUTUS. Behold! these are the tribunes of the people, Against all noble sufferance. Com. Hath he not pass'd the nobles, and the commons ? Bru. Cominius, no. Cor. Have I had children's voices? 1 Sen. Tribunes, give way; he shall to th' market-place. Bru. The people are incens'd against him. Sic. Or all will fall in broil. Cor. Stop, Are these your herd?— Must these have voices, that can yield them now, And straight disclaim their tongues?-What are your offices? You being their mouths, why rule you not their teeth? Have you not set them on? Cor. It is a purpos'd thing, and grows by plot, To curb the will of the nobility : Suffer it, and live with such as cannot rule, Bru. Call't not a plot: The people cry, you mock'd them; and, of late, |