2 Sen. Throw thy glove, Or any token of thine honour elfe, Shall make their harbour in our town, 'till we Alc. Then there's my glove; Defcend, and open your uncharged ports, Botb. 'Tis moft nobly spoken. Alc. Defcend, and keep your words. Sold. My noble General, Timon is dead, [Alcibiades reads the epitaph.] Hereafter more.-Bring me into your city, Make war breed peace; make peace ftint war; make each [.Exenut DRAMATIS PERSONÆ. CAIUS MARTIUS CORIOLANUS, a noble Roman, bated by the common People. TITUS LARTIUS, Generals against the Volfcians, and COMINIUS, Sfriends to Coriolanus. MENENIUS AGRIPPA, Friend to Coriolanus. SICINIUS VELUTUS Tribunes of the People, and enc、 Smies to Coriolanus. JUNIUS BRUTUS, TULLUS AUFIDIUS, General of the Volfcians, Lieutenant to AUFIDIUS. Young MARTIUS, Son to Coriolanus. Confpirators with AUFIDIUS. VOLUMNIA, Mother to Coriolanus. Roman and Volfcian Senators, Ediles, Litors, Soldiers, Common People, Servants to Aufidius, and other Attendants. The SCENE is partly in Rome and partly in the Terri tory of the Volfcians, and Antiates. The whole Hiftory exactly follow'd, and many of the principal Speeches copy'd from the life of Coriolanus in Plutarch. CORI CORIOLANUS. ACT I. SCENE I. A Street in Rome. Enter a company of mutinous Citizens with ftaves, clubs, and other weapons. EFORE we proceed any further, hear me fpeak. All. Speak, fpeak. I Cit. You are all refolv'd rather to die than to famish? All Refolv'd, refolv'd. 1 Cit. First, you know, Caius Martius is the chief enemy to the people. All. We know't. Cit. Let us kill him, and we'll have corn at our own price. Is't a verdict? All. No more talking on't, let't be done; away, away! 2 Cit. One word, good citizens. : 1 Cit. We are accounted poor citizens; the Patricians good what authority furfeits on would relieve us: if they would yield us but the fuperfluity, while it were wholsome, we might guefs they relieved us humanely: but they think we are too dear; the leannefs that afflicts us, the object of our mifery, is as an inventory to particularize their abundance; our fufferance is a gain to them. Let us revenge this with our pitchforks, ere we become rakes: for the Gods know, I fpeak this in hunger for bread, not in thirst for revenge. 2 Cit. Would you proceed especially against Caius Martius? All. Against him first: he's a very dog to the commonalty. 2 Cit. Confider you what fervices he has done for his Country? VOL. VII. G 1 Cit. |