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Sir, I cannot tell: |
We must proceed as we do find the people. |
Third Conspirator: |
The people will remain uncertain whilst |
'Twixt you there's difference; but the fall of either |
Makes the survivor heir of all. |
AUFIDIUS: |
I know it; |
And my pretext to strike at him admits |
A good construction. I raised him, and I pawn'd |
Mine honour for his truth: who being so heighten'd, |
He water'd his new plants with dews of flattery, |
Seducing so my friends; and, to this end, |
He bow'd his nature, never known before |
But to be rough, unswayable and free. |
Third Conspirator: |
Sir, his stoutness |
When he did stand for consul, which he lost |
By lack of stooping,-- |
AUFIDIUS: |
That I would have spoke of: |
Being banish'd for't, he came unto my hearth; |
Presented to my knife his throat: I took him; |
Made him joint-servant with me; gave him way |
In all his own desires; nay, let him choose |
Out of my files, his projects to accomplish, |
My best and freshest men; served his designments |
In mine own person; holp to reap the fame |
Which he did end all his; and took some pride |
To do myself this wrong: till, at the last, |
I seem'd his follower, not partner, and |
He waged me with his countenance, as if |
I had been mercenary. |
First Conspirator: |
So he did, my lord: |
The army marvell'd at it, and, in the last, |
When he had carried Rome and that we look'd |
For no less spoil than glory,-- |
AUFIDIUS: |
There was it: |
For which my sinews shall be stretch'd upon him. |
At a few drops of women's rheum, which are |
As cheap as lies, he sold the blood and labour |
Of our great action: therefore shall he die, |
And I'll renew me in his fall. But, hark! |
First Conspirator: |
Your native town you enter'd like a post, |
And had no welcomes home: but he returns, |
Splitting the air with noise. |
Second Conspirator: |
And patient fools, |
Whose children he hath slain, their base throats tear |
With giving him glory. |
Third Conspirator: |
Therefore, at your vantage, |
Ere he express himself, or move the people |
With what he would say, let him feel your sword, |
Which we will second. When he lies along, |
After your way his tale pronounced shall bury |
His reasons with his body. |
AUFIDIUS: |
Say no more: |
Here come the lords. |
All The Lords: |
You are most welcome home. |
AUFIDIUS: |
I have not deserved it. |
But, worthy lords, have you with heed perused |
What I have written to you? |
Lords: |
We have. |
First Lord: |
And grieve to hear't. |
What faults he made before the last, I think |
Might have found easy fines: but there to end |
Where he was to begin and give away |
The benefit of our levies, answering us |
With our own charge, making a treaty where |
There was a yielding,--this admits no excuse. |
AUFIDIUS: |
He approaches: you shall hear him. |
CORIOLANUS: |
Hail, lords! I am return'd your soldier, |
No more infected with my country's love |
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