Which thou shouldst bear me: only that name re mains : The cruelty and envy of the people, I had fear'd death, of all the men i' the world, Stand I before thee here. Then if thou hast Thine own particular wrongs, and stop those maims Of shame seen through thy country;-speed thee straight, And make my misery serve thy turn; so use it, As benefits to thee: for I will fight Against my canker'd country with the spleen Of all the under fiends. But if so be Thou darest not this, and that to prove more for tunes Thou art tired ;-then, in a word, I also am 1 Resentment. 2 Disgraceful diminutions of territory. Which not to cut, would show thee but a fool; It be to do thee service. Auf. O Marcius, Marcius, Each word thou hast spoke hath weeded from my heart A root of ancient envy. If Jupiter Should from yon cloud speak divine things, and say, 'Tis true;'-I'd not believe them more than thee, All noble Marcius. O, let me twine Mine arms about that body, where against Sigh'd truer breath: but that I see thee here, Bestride my threshold. Why, thou Mars! I tell thee, We have a power on foot; and I had purpose Thou hast beat me out 3 1 Embrace. 2 Arm. 3 Full. Twelve several times; and I have nightly since Like a bold flood o'erbeat. O, come, go in, Cor. You bless me, gods! Auf. Therefore, most absolute sir, if thou wilt have The leading of thine own revenges, take The one half of my commission; and set down,— Whether to knock against the gates of Rome, To fright them ere destroy. But come in: Yet, Marcius, that was much. Your hand! Most welcome! [Exeunt Coriolanus and Aufidius. 1 Ser. [advancing.] Here's a strange alteration! 2 Ser. By my hand, I had thought to have strucken him with a cudgel, and yet my mind gave me, his clothes made a false report of him. 1 Ser. What an arm he has! He turned me about with his finger and his thumb, as one would set up a top. 2 Ser. Nay, I knew by his face that there was something in him: he had, sir, a kind of face, methought,- -I cannot tell how to term it. 1 Ser. He had so; looking, as it were, -would I were hanged, but I thought there was more in him than I could think. 2 Ser. So did I, I'll be sworn. He is simply the rarest man i' the world. 1 Ser. I think he is; but a greater soldier than he, you wot1 one. 2 Ser. Who? my master? 1 Ser. Nay, it's no matter for that. 2 Ser. Worth six of him. 1 Ser. Nay, not so neither; but I take him to be the greater soldier. 2 Ser. Faith, look you, one cannot tell how to say that: for the defence of a town, our general is excellent. 1 Ser. Ay, and for an assault too. 1 Know. |