Will or exceed the common, or be caught O, the gods! COR. COM. I'll follow thee a month, devise with thee Where thou shalt rest, that thou may'st hear of us, And we of thee: so, if the time thrust forth A cause for thy repeal, we shall not send O'er the vast world to seek a single man, And lose advantage which doth ever cool I' the absence of the needer. COR. Fare ye well: Thou hast years upon thee; and thou art too full Of the wars' surfeits, to go rove with one That's yet unbruis'd bring me but out at gate.Come, my sweet wife, my dearest mother, and My friends of noble touch; when I am forth, Fortune's blows, When most struck home, being gentle wounded, craves Every endeavour to elicit sense from this perplexing sentence "Fortune bows When most struck home; being gentle, wounded, craves." &c. SIC. BRU. SIC. They say she's mad. Keep on your way. They have ta'en note of us: SIC. Are you mankind? a VOL. Ay, fool; is that a shame ?-Note but this, fool; Was not a man my father? Hadst thou foxship And for Rome's good.-I'll tell thee what ;-yet go: Nay, but thou shalt stay too :-I would my son SIC. VIR. What then? What then? ADR. You had more beard when I last saw you; but your favour is well appeared by your tongue. What's the news in Rome? I have a note from the Volscian state, to find you out there: you have well saved me a day's journey. NIC. There hath been in Rome strange insurrections: the people against the senators, patricians, and nobles. ADR. Hath been! is it ended then? Our state thinks not so; they are in a most warlike preparation, and hope to come upon them in the heat of their division. Nic. The main blaze of it is past, but a small thing would make it flame again; for the nobles receive so to heart the banishment of that worthy Coriolanus, that they are in a ripe aptness to take all power from the people, and to pluck from them their tribunes for ever. This lies glowing, I can tell you, and is almost mature for the violent breaking out. ADR. Coriolanus banished? ADR. You will be welcome with this intelligence, Nicanor. Nic. The day serves well for them now. I have heard it said, the fittest time to corrupt a man's wife is when she's fallen out with her husband. Your noble Tullus Aufidius will appear well in these wars, his great opposer, Coriolanus, being now in no request of his country. ADR. He cannot choose. I am most fortunate, thus accidentally to encounter you: you have ended my business, and I will merrily accompany you home. NIC. I shall, between this and supper, tell you - your favour is well appeared by your tongue.] This may import, your favour is well manifested, or rendered apparent; but Johnson would read,-affeared, and Steevens and Mr. Collier's most strange things from Rome, all tending to the good of their adversaries. Have you an army ready, say you? ADR. A most royal one: the centurions, and their charges, distinctly billeted, already in the entertainment, and to be on foot at an hour's warning. Nic. I am joyful to hear of their readiness, and am the man, I think, that shall set them in present action. So, sir, heartily well met, and most glad of your company. ADR. You take my part from me, sir; I have the most cause to be glad of yours. NIC. Well, let us go together. [Exeunt. COR. Prepare thy brow to frown: know'st thou me yet? AUF. I know thee not:-thy name? COR. My name is Caius Marcius, who hath done I had fear'd death, of all the men i' the world b Stand I before thee here. Then if thou hast And make my misery serve thy turn; so use it, As benefits to thee; for I will fight Against my canker'd country with the spleen AUF. A root of ancient envy. If Jupiter the opening scene of this act, where Volumnia calls Coriolanus, "my first son." |