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Than when I parted hence, but still subsisting |
Under your great command. You are to know |
That prosperously I have attempted and |
With bloody passage led your wars even to |
The gates of Rome. Our spoils we have brought home |
Do more than counterpoise a full third part |
The charges of the action. We have made peace |
With no less honour to the Antiates |
Than shame to the Romans: and we here deliver, |
Subscribed by the consuls and patricians, |
Together with the seal o' the senate, what |
We have compounded on. |
AUFIDIUS: |
Read it not, noble lords; |
But tell the traitor, in the high'st degree |
He hath abused your powers. |
CORIOLANUS: |
Traitor! how now! |
AUFIDIUS: |
Ay, traitor, Marcius! |
CORIOLANUS: |
Marcius! |
AUFIDIUS: |
Ay, Marcius, Caius Marcius: dost thou think |
I'll grace thee with that robbery, thy stol'n name |
Coriolanus in Corioli? |
You lords and heads o' the state, perfidiously |
He has betray'd your business, and given up, |
For certain drops of salt, your city Rome, |
I say 'your city,' to his wife and mother; |
Breaking his oath and resolution like |
A twist of rotten silk, never admitting |
Counsel o' the war, but at his nurse's tears |
He whined and roar'd away your victory, |
That pages blush'd at him and men of heart |
Look'd wondering each at other. |
CORIOLANUS: |
Hear'st thou, Mars? |
AUFIDIUS: |
Name not the god, thou boy of tears! |
CORIOLANUS: |
Ha! |
AUFIDIUS: |
No more. |
CORIOLANUS: |
Measureless liar, thou hast made my heart |
Too great for what contains it. Boy! O slave! |
Pardon me, lords, 'tis the first time that ever |
I was forced to scold. Your judgments, my grave lords, |
Must give this cur the lie: and his own notion-- |
Who wears my stripes impress'd upon him; that |
Must bear my beating to his grave--shall join |
To thrust the lie unto him. |
First Lord: |
Peace, both, and hear me speak. |
CORIOLANUS: |
Cut me to pieces, Volsces; men and lads, |
Stain all your edges on me. Boy! false hound! |
If you have writ your annals true, 'tis there, |
That, like an eagle in a dove-cote, I |
Flutter'd your Volscians in Corioli: |
Alone I did it. Boy! |
AUFIDIUS: |
Why, noble lords, |
Will you be put in mind of his blind fortune, |
Which was your shame, by this unholy braggart, |
'Fore your own eyes and ears? |
All Conspirators: |
Let him die for't. |
All The People: |
'Tear him to pieces.' 'Do it presently.' 'He kill'd |
my son.' 'My daughter.' 'He killed my cousin |
Marcus.' 'He killed my father.' |
Second Lord: |
Peace, ho! no outrage: peace! |
The man is noble and his fame folds-in |
This orb o' the earth. His last offences to us |
Shall have judicious hearing. Stand, Aufidius, |
And trouble not the peace. |
CORIOLANUS: |
O that I had him, |
With six Aufidiuses, or more, his tribe, |
To use my lawful sword! |
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