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BRUTUS:
Let them go on;
This mutiny were better put in hazard,
Than stay, past doubt, for greater:
If, as his nature is, he fall in rage
With their refusal, both observe and answer
The vantage of his anger.
SICINIUS:
To the Capitol, come:
We will be there before the stream o' the people;
And this shall seem, as partly 'tis, their own,
Which we have goaded onward.
CORIOLANUS:
Tullus Aufidius then had made new head?
LARTIUS:
He had, my lord; and that it was which caused
Our swifter composition.
CORIOLANUS:
So then the Volsces stand but as at first,
Ready, when time shall prompt them, to make road.
Upon's again.
COMINIUS:
They are worn, lord consul, so,
That we shall hardly in our ages see
Their banners wave again.
CORIOLANUS:
Saw you Aufidius?
LARTIUS:
On safe-guard he came to me; and did curse
Against the Volsces, for they had so vilely
Yielded the town: he is retired to Antium.
CORIOLANUS:
Spoke he of me?
LARTIUS:
He did, my lord.
CORIOLANUS:
How? what?
LARTIUS:
How often he had met you, sword to sword;
That of all things upon the earth he hated
Your person most, that he would pawn his fortunes
To hopeless restitution, so he might
Be call'd your vanquisher.
CORIOLANUS:
At Antium lives he?
LARTIUS:
At Antium.
CORIOLANUS:
I wish I had a cause to seek him there,
To oppose his hatred fully. Welcome home.
Behold, these are the tribunes of the people,
The tongues o' the common mouth: I do despise them;
For they do prank them in authority,
Against all noble sufferance.
SICINIUS:
Pass no further.
CORIOLANUS:
Ha! what is that?
BRUTUS:
It will be dangerous to go on: no further.
CORIOLANUS:
What makes this change?
MENENIUS:
The matter?
COMINIUS:
Hath he not pass'd the noble and the common?
BRUTUS:
Cominius, no.
CORIOLANUS:
Have I had children's voices?
First Senator:
Tribunes, give way; he shall to the market-place.
BRUTUS:
The people are incensed against him.
SICINIUS: