The word _mankind_ is used maliciously by the first speaker, and taken perversely by the second. A _mankind_ woman is a woman with the roughness of a man, and, in an aggravated sense, a woman ferocious, violent, and eager to shed blood. In this sense Sicinius asks Volumnia, if she be _mankind_. She takes _mankind_ for a _human creature_, and accordingly cries out, --_Note but this, fool. Was not a man my father?_ IV.ii.18 (394,7) Hadst thou foxship] Hadst thou, fool as thou art, mean cunning enough to banish Coriolanus? IV.iii.9 (395,7) but your favour is well appear'd by your tongue] [W: well appeal'd] I should read, --_is well_ affear'd, That is, _strengthened, attested,_ a word used by our authour. _My title is_ affear'd. Macbeth. To _repeal_ may be _to bring to remembrance_, but _appeal_ has another meaning. IV.iii.48 (397,8) already in the entertainment] That is, tho' not actually encamped, yet already in _pay_. To _entertain_ an army is to take them into pay. IV.iv.22 (398,1) So, with me:-- My birth-place hate I, and my love's upon This enemy's town:--I'll enter: if he slay me] He who reads this [My country have I and my lovers left;/This enemy's town I'll enter] would think that he was reading the lines of Shakespeare: except that Coriolanus, being already in the town, says, he _will enter it_. Yet the old edition exhibits it thus --_So with me. My birth-place have I; and my loves upon This enemic towne; I'll enter if he slay me_, &c. The intermediate line seems to be lost, in which, conformably to his former observation, he says, that _he has_ lost _his birth-place, and his loves upon_ a petty dispute, and is trying his chance in _this enemy town_, he then cries, turning to the house of Anfidius, _I'll enter if he slay me_. I have preferred the common reading, because it is, though faulty, yet intelligible, and the original passage, for want of copies, cannot be restored. IV.v.76 (403,3) a good memory] The Oxford editor, not knowing that _memory_ was used at that time for _memorial_, alters it to _memorial_. IV.v.90 (403,4) A heart of wreak in thee] A heart of resentment. IV.v.91 (403,5) maims/Of shame] That is, disgraceful diminutions of territory. IV.v.207 (406,5) sanctifies himself with's hands] Alluding, improperly, to the act of _crossing_ upon any strange event. IV.v.212 (407,6) He will go, he says, and sowle the porter of Rome gates by the ears] That is, I suppose, drag him down by the ears into the dirt. _Souiller_, Fr. IV.v.214 (407,7) his passage poll'd] That is, _bared, cleared_. IV.v.238 (408,8) full of vent] Full of _rumour_, full of materials for _discourse_. IV.vi.2 (408,1) His remedies are tame i' the present peace] The old reading is, _His remedies are tame, the present peace_. I do not understand either line, but fancy it should be read thus, --_neither need we fear him; His remedies are ta'en, the present peace, And quietness o' the people_,--