_Sic._ Meet on the market-place. We'll attend you there:[3270] Where, if you bring not Marcius, we'll proceed In our first way. _Men._ I'll bring him to you.[3271][3272] [_To the Senators_] Let me desire your company: he must come,[3272][3273] 335 Or what is worst will follow. _First Sen._ Pray you, let's to him. [_Exeunt._[3274] SCENE II. _A room in Coriolanus's house._ _Enter_ CORIOLANUS _with_ Patricians.[3275] _Cor._ Let them pull all about mine ears; present me Death on the wheel, or at wild horses' heels; Or pile ten hills on the Tarpeian rock, That the precipitation might down stretch Below the beam of sight; yet will I still 5 Be thus to them. _A Patrician._ You do the nobler.[3276] _Cor._ I muse my mother[3277] Does not approve me further, who was wont[3278] To call them woollen vassals, things created[3279] To buy and sell with groats, to show bare heads 10 In congregations, to yawn, be still and wonder,[3280] When one but of my ordinance stood up To speak of peace or war. _Enter_ VOLUMNIA. I talk of you:[3281] Why did you wish me milder? would you have me False to my nature? Rather say, I play[3282] 15 The man I am.[3282] _Vol._ O, sir, sir, sir,[3283] I would have had you put your power well on, Before you had worn it out. _Cor._ Let go.[3284] _Vol._ You might have been enough the man you are, With striving less to be so: lesser had been[3285] 20 The thwartings of your dispositions, if[3286] You had not show'd them how ye were disposed[3287] Ere they lack'd power to cross you. _Cor._ Let them hang. _Vol._ Ay, and burn too. _Enter_ MENENIUS _with the_ Senators. _Men._ Come, come, you have been too rough, something too rough;[3288][3289] 25 You must return and mend it.[3288] _First Sen._ There's no remedy;[3290] Unless, by not so doing, our good city Cleave in the midst, and perish. _Vol._ Pray, be counsell'd: I have a heart as little apt as yours,[3291] But yet a brain that leads my use of anger 30 To better vantage. _Men._ Well said, noble woman! Before he should thus stoop to the herd, but that[3292] The violent fit o' the time craves it as physic[3293] For the whole state, I would put mine armour on,[3294] Which I can scarcely bear. _Cor._ What must I do?[3295] 35 _Men._ Return to the tribunes.[3295] _Cor._ Well, what then? what then?[3295] _Men._ Repent what you have spoke.[3295]