{"product_id":"coriolanus-isbn-9780143132271","title":"Coriolanus","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Each book includes an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare’s time, an introduction to the individual play, and a detailed note on the text used. Updated by general editors Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller, these easy-to-read editions incorporate over thirty years of Shakespeare scholarship undertaken since the original series, edited by Alfred Harbage, appeared between 1956 and 1967. 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Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.“Gorgeous new Shakespeare paperbacks.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Marlon James, author of \u003ci\u003eA Brief History of Seven Killings\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“I have been using the Pelican Shakespeare for years in my lecture course--it's invaluable, the best individual-volume series available for students.”\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003eMarjorie Garber, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English and Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam Shakespeare \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in Stratford-upon-Avon in April, 1564, and his birth is traditionally celebrated on April 23. The facts of his life, known from surviving documents, are sparse. He died on April 23, 1616, and was buried in Holy Trinity Church, Stratford. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eA. R.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eBraunmuller \u003c\/b\u003eis Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Los Angeles. He has written critical volumes on George Peele and George Chapman and has edited plays in both the Oxford (\u003ci\u003eKing John\u003c\/i\u003e) and Cambridge (\u003ci\u003eMacbeth\u003c\/i\u003e) series of Shakespeare editions. He is also general editor of The New Cambridge Shakespeare. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eStephen Orgel \u003c\/b\u003eis the Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of the Humanities at Stanford University and general editor of the Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture. His books include \u003ci\u003eImagining Shakespeare\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Authentic Shakespeare\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eImpersonations: The Performance of Gender in Shakespeare’s England\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Illusion of Power\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cb\u003eThe Tragedy of      Coriolanus\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ¥    I.1 Enter a company of mutinous Citizens, with staves, clubs,      and other weapons.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e first citizen Before we proceed any further, hear me speak.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e all Speak, speak.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e first citizen You are all resolved rather to die than to famish?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e all Resolved, resolved.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e first citizen First, you know Caius Martius is chief enemy to the      people.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e all We know't, we know't.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e first citizen Let us kill him, and we'll have corn at our own      price. Is't a verdict?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 10\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 11\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e all No more talking on't! Let it be done! Away, away!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 12\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e second citizen  One word, good citizens.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e first citizen We are accounted poor citizens, the patricians good.      What authority surfeits on would relieve us. If they would yield      us but the superfluity while it were wholesome, we might guess      they relieved us humanely, but they think we are too dear. The      leanness that afflicts us, the object of our misery, is as an      inventory to particularize their abundance; our sufferance is a      gain to them. Let us revenge this with our pikes ere we become      rakes; for the gods know I speak this in hunger for bread, not in      thirst for revenge.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 15\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 16\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 18\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 19\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 20\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 21\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 22\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e second citizen Would you proceed especially against Caius Martius?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e all Against him first. He's a very dog to the commonalty. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 26\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e second citizen Consider you what services he has done for his      country?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 27\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e first citizen Very well, and could be content to give him good      report for't, but that he pays himself with being proud.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 30\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e second citizen Nay, but speak not maliciously.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e first citizen I say unto you, what he hath done famously, he did      it to that end. Though soft-conscienced men can be content to say      it was for his country, he did it to please his mother and to be      partly proud, which he is, even to the altitude of his virtue.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 35\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 38\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e second citizen What he cannot help in his nature, you account a      vice in him. You must in no way say he is covetous.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 40\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 41\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e first citizen If I must not, I need not be barren of accusations.      He hath faults, with surplus, to tire in repetition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Shouts within.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e What shouts are these? The other side o' th' city is risen.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Why stay we prating here? To th' Capitol!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 46\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e all Come, come!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e first citizen Soft, who comes here?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 48\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Enter Menenius Agrippa.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e second citizen Worthy Menenius Agrippa, one that hath always loved      the people.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 50\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e first citizen He's one honest enough! Would all the rest were so!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e menenius  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e What work's, my countrymen, in hand? Where go you\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e With bats and clubs? The matter? Speak, I pray you.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e first citizen Our business is not unknown to th' Senate. They have      had inkling this fortnight what we intend to do, which now we'll      show 'em in deeds. They say poor suitors have strong breaths; they      shall know we have strong arms too.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 58\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e menenius  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Why, masters, my good friends, mine honest neighbors,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 60\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Will you undo yourselves?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e first citizen  We cannot, sir, we are undone already.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e menenius  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I tell you, friends, most charitable care\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Have the patricians of you. For your wants,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 64\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Your suffering in this dearth, you may as well\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 65\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Strike at the heaven with your staves as lift them\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Against the Roman state, whose course will on\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 67\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The way it takes, cracking ten thousand curbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Of more strong link asunder than can ever\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Appear in your impediment. For the dearth,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 70\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The gods, not the patricians, make it, and\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Your knees to them, not arms, must help. Alack,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e You are transported by calamity\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 73\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Thither where more attends you, and you slander\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The helms o' th' state, who care for you like fathers,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 75\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e When you curse them as enemies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e first citizen Care for us? True, indeed! They ne'er cared for us      yet: suffer us to famish, and their storehouses crammed with      grain; make edicts for usury, to support usurers; repeal daily any      wholesome act established against the rich, and provide more      piercing statutes daily to chain up and restrain the poor. If the      wars eat us not up, they will; and there's all the love they bear      us.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 78\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 79\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 81\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e menenius  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Either you must\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Confess yourselves wondrous malicious,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 86\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Or be accused of folly. I shall tell you\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A pretty tale. It may be you have heard it,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e But, since it serves my purpose, I will venture\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e To stale't a little more.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 90\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e first citizen Well, I'll hear it, sir; yet you must not think to      fob off our disgrace with a tale. But, an't please you, deliver.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 92\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e menenius  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e There was a time when all the body's members\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 94\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Rebelled against the belly, thus accused it:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e That only like a gulf it did remain\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I' th' midst o' th' body, idle and unactive,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Still cupboarding the viand, never bearing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 98\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Like labor with the rest, where th' other instruments\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 99\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Did see and hear, devise, instruct, walk, feel,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 100\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e And mutually participate, did minister\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 101\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Unto the appetite and affection common\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 102\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Of the whole body. The belly answered-\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e first citizen  Well, sir, what answer made the belly?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e menenius  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Sir, I shall tell you. With a kind of smile,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Which ne'er came from the lungs, but even thus-\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 106\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e For, look you, I may make the belly smile\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e As well as speak-it tauntingly replied\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e To th' discontented members, the mutinous parts\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e That envied his receipt; even so most fitly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 110\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e As you malign our senators, for that\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 111\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e They are not such as you. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e first citizen       Your belly's answer? What?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The kingly crownd head, the vigilant eye,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The counselor heart, the arm our soldier,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Our steed the leg, the tongue our trumpeter,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e With other muniments and petty helps\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 116\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In this our fabric, if that they-\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e menenius      What then?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'Fore me, this fellow speaks! What then? what then?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 118\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e first citizen  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Should by the cormorant belly be restrained,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 119\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Who is the sink o' th' body-\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 120\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e menenius      Well, what then?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e first citizen  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The former agents, if they did complain,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e What could the belly answer?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e menenius      I will tell you,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e If you'll bestow a small-of what you have little-\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Patience awhile, you'st hear the belly's answer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 124\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e first citizen  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e You're long about it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e menenius      Note me this, good friend;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Your most grave belly was deliberate,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 126\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Not rash like his accusers, and thus answered:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"True is it, my incorporate friends,\" quoth he,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"That I receive the general food at first,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Which you do live upon; and fit it is,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 130\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Because I am the storehouse and the shop\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 131\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Of the whole body. But, if you do remember,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I send it through the rivers of your blood\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Even to the court, the heart, to th' seat o' th' brain;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e And, through the cranks and offices of man,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 135\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The strongest nerves and small inferior veins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 136\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e From me receive that natural competency\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 137\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Whereby they live. And though that all at once\"-\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e You, my good friends! This says the belly. Mark me.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e first citizen  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Ay, sir, well, well.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 140\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e menenius      \"Though all at once cannot\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e See what I do deliver out to each,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Yet I can make my audit up that all\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 142\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e From me do back receive the flour of all,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e And leave me but the bran.\" What say you to't?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e first citizen  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e It was an answer. How apply you this?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e menenius  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The senators of Rome are this good belly,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e And you the mutinous members. For examine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Their counsels and their cares, disgest things rightly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 148\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Touching the weal o' th' common, you shall find\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 149\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e No public benefit which you receive\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 150\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e But it proceeds or comes from them to you,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e And no way from yourselves. What do you think,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e You, the great toe of this assembly?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e first citizen  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I the great toe! Why the great toe?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e menenius  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e For that, being one o' th' lowest, basest, poorest\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Of this most wise rebellion, thou goest foremost.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Thou rascal, that art worst in blood to run,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 157\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Lead'st first to win some vantage.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 158\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e But make you ready your stiff bats and clubs:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Rome and her rats are at the point of battle;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The one side must have bale.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 161\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Enter Caius Martius.     Hail, noble Martius!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e martius  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Thanks. What's the matter, you dissentious rogues,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 162\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e That, rubbing the poor itch of your opinion,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Make yourselves scabs?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e first citizen      We have ever your good word.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e martius  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e He that will give good words to thee will flatter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Beneath abhorring. What would you have, you curs,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 166\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e That like nor peace nor war? The one affrights you,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 167\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The other makes you proud. He that trusts to you,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 168\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Where he should find you lions, finds you hares;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Where foxes, geese. You are no surer, no,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 170\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Than is the coal of fire upon the ice,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Or hailstone in the sun. Your virtue is\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e To make him worthy whose offense subdues him\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 173\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e And curse that justice did it. Who deserves greatness\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 174\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Deserves your hate; and your affections are\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A sick man's appetite, who desires most that\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Which would increase his evil. He that depends\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Upon your favors swims with fins of lead\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e And hews down oaks with rushes. Hang ye! Trust ye?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e With every minute you do change a mind,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 180\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e And call him noble that was now your hate,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Him vile that was your garland. What's the matter,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 182\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e That in these several places of the city\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 183\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e You cry against the noble Senate, who,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Under the gods, keep you in awe, which else\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Would feed on one another? What's their seeking?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 186\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e menenius  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e For corn at their own rates, whereof they say\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The city is well stored.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e martius      Hang 'em! They say?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e They'll sit by th' fire and presume to know\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e What's done i' th' Capitol, who's like to rise,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 190\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Who thrives and who declines; side factions and give out\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 191\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Conjectural marriages, making parties strong\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e And feebling such as stand not in their liking\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 193\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Below their cobbled shoes. They say there's grain       enough?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 194\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Would the nobility lay aside their ruth,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 195\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e And let me use my sword, I'd make a quarry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 196\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e With thousands of these quartered slaves as high\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 197\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e As I could pick my lance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 198\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e menenius  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Nay, these are almost thoroughly persuaded;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e For though abundantly they lack discretion,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Yet are they passing cowardly. But, I beseech you,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 201\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e What says the other troop?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e martius      They are dissolved. Hang 'em!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e They said they were anhungry, sighed forth proverbs-\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 203\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e That hunger broke stone walls, that dogs must eat,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e That meat was made for mouths, that the gods sent not\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Corn for the rich men only. With these shreds\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 206\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e They vented their complainings, which being answered\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e And a petition granted them, a strange one,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e To break the heart of generosity,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 209\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e And make bold power look pale, they threw their caps\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 210\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e As they would hang them on the horns o' th' moon,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Shouting their emulation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 212\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e menenius      What is granted them?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e martius  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Five tribunes to defend their vulgar wisdoms,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 213\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Of their own choice. One's Junius Brutus,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Sicinius Velutus, and I know not-'Sdeath!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 215\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The rabble should have first unroofed the city\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Ere so prevailed with me; it will in time\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Win upon power, and throw forth greater themes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 218\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e For insurrection's arguing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 219\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e menenius      This is strange.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e martius  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Go, get you home, you fragments!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 220\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Enter a Messenger hastily.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e messenger  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Where's Caius Martius?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e martius      Here. What's the matter?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e messenger  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The news is, sir, the Volsces are in arms.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e martius  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I am glad on't. Then we shall ha' means to vent\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 223\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Our musty superfluity. See, our best elders.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Enter Sicinius Velutus, Junius Brutus, Cominius, Titus Lartius,      with other Senators.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e first senator  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Martius, 'tis true that you have lately told us:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 225\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Volsces are in arms.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e martius      They have a leader,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Tullus Aufidius, that will put you to't.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 227\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I sin in envying his nobility,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e And were I any thing but what I am,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I would wish me only he.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 230\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e cominius      You have fought together?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e martius  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Were half to half the world by th' ears and he\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 231\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Upon my party, I'd revolt, to make\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Only my wars with him. He is a lion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e That I am proud to hunt.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e first senator      Then, worthy Martius,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Attend upon Cominius to these wars.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e cominius  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e It is your former promise.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e martius      Sir, it is,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e And I am constant. Titus Lartius, thou\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Shalt see me once more strike at Tullus' face.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e What, art thou stiff? Stand'st out?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 239\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e titus      No, Caius Martius,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I'll lean upon one crutch and fight with t' other,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Ere stay behind this business.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e menenius      O, true-bred!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e first senator  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Your company to th' Capitol, where I know\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Our greatest friends attend us.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 243\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e titus [To Cominius]    Lead you on.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e [To Martius]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Follow Cominius. We must follow you.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Right worthy you priority.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 245\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e cominius      Noble Martius!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e first senator  [To the Citizens]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Hence to your homes, be gone!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e martius      Nay, let them follow.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Volsces have much corn. Take these rats thither\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e To gnaw their garners. Worshipful mutineers,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Your valor puts well forth. Pray follow.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 249\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Exeunt. Citizens steal away.       Manent Sicinius and Brutus.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e sicinius  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Was ever man so proud as is this Martius?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 250\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e brutus  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e He has no equal.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e sicinius  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e When we were chosen tribunes for the people-\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e brutus  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Marked you his lip and eyes?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e sicinius      Nay, but his taunts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e brutus  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Being moved, he will not spare to gird the gods.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 254\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e sicinius  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Bemock the modest moon.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e brutus  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The present wars devour him! He is grown\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Too proud to be so valiant.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e sicinius      Such a nature,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Tickled with good success, disdains the shadow\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Which he treads on at noon. But I do wonder\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e His insolence can brook to be commanded\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 260\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Under Cominius.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e brutus      Fame, at the which he aims,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In whom already he's well graced, cannot\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 262\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Better be held nor more attained than by\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A place below the first; for what miscarries\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Shall be the general's fault, though he perform\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e To th' utmost of a man, and giddy censure\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 266\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Will then cry out of Martius, \"O, if he\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Had borne the business!\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e sicinius      Besides, if things go well,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Opinion, that so sticks on Martius, shall\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 269\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Of his demerits rob Cominius.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 270\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e brutus      Come.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Half all Cominius' honors are to Martius,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 271\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Though Martius earned them not; and all his faults\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e To Martius shall be honors, though indeed\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In aught he merit not.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 274\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e sicinius      Let's hence and hear\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e How the dispatch is made, and in what fashion,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 275\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e More than his singularity, he goes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 276\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Upon this present action.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e brutus      Let's along.Exeunt.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ¥    I.2 Enter Tullus Aufidius, with Senators of Corioles.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e first senator  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e So, your opinion is, Aufidius,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e That they of Rome are entered in our counsels\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e And know how we proceed.","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300036694245,"sku":"NP9780143132271","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780143132271.jpg?v=1767724130","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/coriolanus-isbn-9780143132271","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}