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I know no further: |
Let them pronounce the steep Tarpeian death, |
Vagabond exile, raying, pent to linger |
But with a grain a day, I would not buy |
Their mercy at the price of one fair word; |
Nor cheque my courage for what they can give, |
To have't with saying 'Good morrow.' |
SICINIUS: |
For that he has, |
As much as in him lies, from time to time |
Envied against the people, seeking means |
To pluck away their power, as now at last |
Given hostile strokes, and that not in the presence |
Of dreaded justice, but on the ministers |
That do distribute it; in the name o' the people |
And in the power of us the tribunes, we, |
Even from this instant, banish him our city, |
In peril of precipitation |
From off the rock Tarpeian never more |
To enter our Rome gates: i' the people's name, |
I say it shall be so. |
Citizens: |
It shall be so, it shall be so; let him away: |
He's banish'd, and it shall be so. |
COMINIUS: |
Hear me, my masters, and my common friends,-- |
SICINIUS: |
He's sentenced; no more hearing. |
COMINIUS: |
Let me speak: |
I have been consul, and can show for Rome |
Her enemies' marks upon me. I do love |
My country's good with a respect more tender, |
More holy and profound, than mine own life, |
My dear wife's estimate, her womb's increase, |
And treasure of my loins; then if I would |
Speak that,-- |
SICINIUS: |
We know your drift: speak what? |
BRUTUS: |
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. |
CORIOLANUS: |
You common cry of curs! whose breath I hate |
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! |
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, |
Making not reservation of yourselves, |
Still your own foes, deliver you as most |
Abated captives to some nation |
That won you without blows! Despising, |
For you, the city, thus I turn my back: |
There is a world elsewhere. |
AEdile: |
The people's enemy is gone, is gone! |
Citizens: |
Our enemy is banish'd! he is gone! Hoo! hoo! |
SICINIUS: |
Go, see him out at gates, and follow him, |
As he hath followed you, with all despite; |
Give him deserved vexation. Let a guard |
Attend us through the city. |
Citizens: |
Come, come; let's see him out at gates; come. |
The gods preserve our noble tribunes! Come. |
CORIOLANUS: |
Come, leave your tears: a brief farewell: the beast |
With many heads butts me away. Nay, mother, |
Where is your ancient courage? you were used |
To say extremity was the trier of spirits; |
That common chances common men could bear; |
That when the sea was calm all boats alike |
Show'd mastership in floating; fortune's blows, |
When most struck home, being gentle wounded, craves |
A noble cunning: you were used to load me |
With precepts that would make invincible |
The heart that conn'd them. |
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