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VIRGILIA: |
O heavens! O heavens! |
CORIOLANUS: |
Nay! prithee, woman,-- |
VOLUMNIA: |
Now the red pestilence strike all trades in Rome, |
And occupations perish! |
CORIOLANUS: |
What, what, what! |
I shall be loved when I am lack'd. Nay, mother. |
Resume that spirit, when you were wont to say, |
If you had been the wife of Hercules, |
Six of his labours you'ld have done, and saved |
Your husband so much sweat. Cominius, |
Droop not; adieu. Farewell, my wife, my mother: |
I'll do well yet. Thou old and true Menenius, |
Thy tears are salter than a younger man's, |
And venomous to thine eyes. My sometime general, |
I have seen thee stem, and thou hast oft beheld |
Heart-hardening spectacles; tell these sad women |
'Tis fond to wail inevitable strokes, |
As 'tis to laugh at 'em. My mother, you wot well |
My hazards still have been your solace: and |
Believe't not lightly--though I go alone, |
Like to a lonely dragon, that his fen |
Makes fear'd and talk'd of more than seen--your son |
Will or exceed the common or be caught |
With cautelous baits and practise. |
VOLUMNIA: |
My first son. |
Whither wilt thou go? Take good Cominius |
With thee awhile: determine on some course, |
More than a wild exposture to each chance |
That starts i' the way before thee. |
CORIOLANUS: |
O the gods! |
COMINIUS: |
I'll follow thee a month, devise with thee |
Where thou shalt rest, that thou mayst hear of us |
And we of thee: so if the time thrust forth |
A cause for thy repeal, we shall not send |
O'er the vast world to seek a single man, |
And lose advantage, which doth ever cool |
I' the absence of the needer. |
CORIOLANUS: |
Fare ye well: |
Thou hast years upon thee; and thou art too full |
Of the wars' surfeits, to go rove with one |
That's yet unbruised: bring me but out at gate. |
Come, my sweet wife, my dearest mother, and |
My friends of noble touch, when I am forth, |
Bid me farewell, and smile. I pray you, come. |
While I remain above the ground, you shall |
Hear from me still, and never of me aught |
But what is like me formerly. |
MENENIUS: |
That's worthily |
As any ear can hear. Come, let's not weep. |
If I could shake off but one seven years |
From these old arms and legs, by the good gods, |
I'ld with thee every foot. |
CORIOLANUS: |
Give me thy hand: Come. |
SICINIUS: |
Bid them all home; he's gone, and we'll no further. |
The nobility are vex'd, whom we see have sided |
In his behalf. |
BRUTUS: |
Now we have shown our power, |
Let us seem humbler after it is done |
Than when it was a-doing. |
SICINIUS: |
Bid them home: |
Say their great enemy is gone, and they |
Stand in their ancient strength. |
BRUTUS: |
Dismiss them home. |
Here comes his mother. |
SICINIUS: |
Let's not meet her. |
BRUTUS: |
Why? |
SICINIUS: |
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