I.vi.83 (319,9) Please you to march,/And four shall quickly draw out my command,/Which men are best inclin'd] I cannot but suspect this passage of corruption. Why should they _march_, that _four_ might select those that were _best inclin'd_? How would their inclinations be known? Who were the _four_ that should select them? Perhaps, we may read, --_Please you to march, And_ fear _shall quickly draw out_ of _my command, Which men are_ least _inclin'd_. It is easy to conceive that, by a little negligence, _fear_ might be changed to _four_, and _least_ to _best_. Let us march, and that fear which incites desertion will free my army from cowards. (see 1765, VI, 512, 1) I.viii.11 (320,1) Wert thou the Hector,/That was the whip of your bragg'd progeny] The Romans boasted themselves descended from the Trojans, how then was Hector the _whip of their progeny_? It must mean the whip with which the Trojans scourged the Greeks, which cannot be but by a very unusual construction, or the authour must have forgotten the original of the Romans; unless _whip_ has some meaning which includes _advantage_ or _superiority_, as we say, _he has the_ whip-hand, for _he has the_ advantage. I.viii.14 (321,2) you have sham'd me/In your condemned seconds] For _condemned_, we may read _contemned_. You have, to my shane, sent me help _which I despise_. I.ix.12 (321,4) Here is the steed, we the caparisons!] This is an odd encomium. The meaning is, _this man performed the action, and we only filled up the show_. I.ii.14 (322,5) a charter to extol] A privilege to praise her own son. I.ix.29 (322,6) Should they not] That is, _not be remembered_. I.ix.72 (325,9) To the fairness of any power] [_Fairness_, for _utmost_. WARE.] I know not how _fairness_ can mean _utmost_. When two engage on _equal_ terms, we say it is _fair_; _fairness_ may therefore be _equality; in proportion equal to my power_. I.ix.76 (325,1) The best] The _chief_ men of Corioli. I.x.5 (326,3) Being a Volsce, be that I am] It may be just observed, that Shakespeare calls the _Volsci, Volsces_, which the modern editors have changed to the modern termination [Volscian]. I mention it here, because here the change has spoiled the measure. _Being a_ Volsce, _be that I am. Condition_. [Steevans restored _Volsce_ in the text.] I.x.17 (326,2) My valour's poison'd,/With only suffering stain by him, for him/ Shall flie out of itself] To mischief him, my valour should _deviate from_ its own native generosity. I.x.25 (327,4) At home, upon my brother's guard] In my own house, with my brother posted to protect him. II.i.8 (328,5) Pray you, who does the wolf love?] When the tribune, in reply to Menenius's remark, on the people's hate of Coriolanus, had observed that even _beasts know their friends_, Menenius asks, _whom does the wolf love_? implying that there are beasts which love nobody, and that among those beasts are the people.