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SICINIUS:
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I do demand,
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If you submit you to the people's voices,
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Allow their officers and are content
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To suffer lawful censure for such faults
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As shall be proved upon you?
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CORIOLANUS:
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I am content.
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MENENIUS:
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Lo, citizens, he says he is content:
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The warlike service he has done, consider; think
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Upon the wounds his body bears, which show
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Like graves i' the holy churchyard.
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CORIOLANUS:
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Scratches with briers,
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Scars to move laughter only.
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MENENIUS:
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Consider further,
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That when he speaks not like a citizen,
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You find him like a soldier: do not take
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His rougher accents for malicious sounds,
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But, as I say, such as become a soldier,
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Rather than envy you.
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COMINIUS:
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Well, well, no more.
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CORIOLANUS:
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What is the matter
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That being pass'd for consul with full voice,
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I am so dishonour'd that the very hour
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You take it off again?
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SICINIUS:
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Answer to us.
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CORIOLANUS:
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Say, then: 'tis true, I ought so.
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SICINIUS:
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We charge you, that you have contrived to take
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From Rome all season'd office and to wind
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Yourself into a power tyrannical;
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For which you are a traitor to the people.
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CORIOLANUS:
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How! traitor!
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MENENIUS:
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Nay, temperately; your promise.
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CORIOLANUS:
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The fires i' the lowest hell fold-in the people!
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Call me their traitor! Thou injurious tribune!
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Within thine eyes sat twenty thousand deaths,
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In thy hand clutch'd as many millions, in
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Thy lying tongue both numbers, I would say
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'Thou liest' unto thee with a voice as free
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As I do pray the gods.
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SICINIUS:
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Mark you this, people?
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Citizens:
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To the rock, to the rock with him!
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SICINIUS:
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Peace!
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We need not put new matter to his charge:
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What you have seen him do and heard him speak,
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Beating your officers, cursing yourselves,
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Opposing laws with strokes and here defying
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Those whose great power must try him; even this,
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So criminal and in such capital kind,
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Deserves the extremest death.
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BRUTUS:
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But since he hath
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Served well for Rome,--
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CORIOLANUS:
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What do you prate of service?
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BRUTUS:
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I talk of that, that know it.
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CORIOLANUS:
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You?
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MENENIUS:
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Is this the promise that you made your mother?
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COMINIUS:
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Know, I pray you,--
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CORIOLANUS:
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