The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 6 of 9]Shakespeare, William
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The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 6 of 9]
Shakespeare, William
English drama
_Com._ Let me speak:
I have been consul, and can show for Rome[3400] 110
Her enemies' marks upon me. I do love
My country's good with a respect more tender,[3401]
More holy and profound, than mine own life,
My dear wife's estimate, her womb's increase[3402]
And treasure of my loins; then if I would 115
Speak that--[3403]
_Sic._ We know your drift:--speak what?
_Bru._ There's no more to be said, but he is banish'd,
As enemy to the people and his country:
It shall be so.
_Citizens._ It shall be so, it shall be so.[3382] 120
_Cor._ You common cry of curs! whose breath I hate[3404]
As reek o' the rotten fens, whose loves I prize
As the dead carcasses of unburied men
That do corrupt my air, I banish you;
And here remain with your uncertainty! 125
Let every feeble rumour shake your hearts!
Your enemies, with nodding of their plumes,
Fan you into despair! Have the power still
To banish your defenders; till at length
Your ignorance, which finds not till it feels, 130
Making not reservation of yourselves,[3405]
Still your own foes, deliver you as most[3406][3407]
Abated captives to some nation[3407]
That won you without blows! Despising,[3408]
For you, the city, thus I turn my back:[3408][3409] 135
There is a world elsewhere.
[_Exeunt Coriolanus, Cominius, Menenius, Senators and Patricians._[3410]
_Æd._ The people's enemy is gone, is gone!
_Citizens._ Our enemy is banish'd! he is gone! Hoo! hoo!
[_They all shout, and throw up their caps._[3411]
_Sic._ Go, see him out at gates, and follow him,
As he hath follow'd you, with all despite;[3412] 140
Give him deserved vexation. Let a guard[3412]
Attend us through the city.
_Citizens._ Come, come, let's see him out at gates; come.[3382][3413]
The gods preserve our noble tribunes! Come. [_Exeunt._
FOOTNOTES:
[3103] ACT III. SCENE I.] Rowe. Actus Tertius. Ff.
Rome.] Rowe.
A street.] A publick Street. Theobald.
all the Gentry,] om. Rowe.
Lartius,] F₂ F₃. Latius, F₁. Lucius, F₄ (and throughout the scene).
[3104] _road_] _inroad_ Pope.
[3105] _They are_] _They're_ Pope.
[3106] [To Lartius. Theobald.
[3107] _noble ... common_] F₁. _noble ... commons_ F₂ F₃ F₄.
_nobles ... commons_ Rowe.
[3108] First Sen.] 1. S. Capell. Senat. Ff.
[3109] _Stop ... broil_] Arranged as by Pope. One line in Ff.
[3110] _herd_] F₃ F₄. _heard_ F₁ F₂.
[3111] _tongues_] F₄. _toungs_ F₁. _tongs_ F₂ F₃.
_offices?_] _offices_ F₂.
[3112] _suppliants for_] F₄. _suppliants: for_ F₁ F₂ F₃.
[3113] _sithence_] _since_ Pope.
[3114] Com.] Ff. Cor. Theobald.
_You are like_] _Yes, you are like enough_ Hanmer.
[3115] _Not ... yours_] Arranged as by Johnson. One line in Ff.
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