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CORIOLANUS

William Shakespeare

1608

CORIOLANUS

Dramatis Personae

CAIUS MARCIUS, afterwards CAIUS MARCIUS CORIOLANUS

Generals against the Volscians TITUS LARTIUS COMINIUS

MENENIUS AGRIPPA, friend to Coriolanus

Tribunes of the People SICINIUS VELUTUS JUNIUS BRUTUS

YOUNG MARCIUS, son to Coriolanus A ROMAN HERALD

NICANOR, a Roman TULLUS AUFIDIUS, General of the Volscians

LIEUTENANT, to Aufidius CONSPIRATORS, With Aufidius ADRIAN, a

Volscian A CITIZEN of Antium TWO VOLSCIAN GUARDS

VOLUMNIA, mother to Coriolanus VIRGILIA, wife to Coriolanus

VALERIA, friend to Virgilia GENTLEWOMAN attending on Virgilia

Roman and Volscian Senators, Patricians, Aediles, Lictors, Soldiers,

Citizens, Messengers, Servants to Aufidius, and other Attendants

Scens: Rome and the neighbourhood; Corioli and the neighbourhood;

Antium

CORIOLANUS

ACT I.

CORIOLANUS

SCENE I. Rome. A street

Enter a company of mutinous citizens, with staves, clubs, and other

weapons

FIRST CITIZEN. Before we proceed any further, hear me speak.

ALL. Speak, speak. FIRST CITIZEN. You are all resolv'd rather to die

than to famish? ALL. Resolv'd, resolv'd. FIRST CITIZEN. First, you

know Caius Marcius is chief enemy to the people. ALL. We know't, we

know't. FIRST CITIZEN. Let us kill him, and we'll have corn at our own

price. Is't a verdict? ALL. No more talking on't; let it be done. Away, away!

SECOND CITIZEN. One word, good citizens. 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. SECOND

CITIZEN. Would you proceed especially against Caius Marcius? FIRST

CITIZEN. Against him first; he's a very dog to the commonalty. SECOND

CITIZEN. Consider you what services he has done for his country? FIRST

CITIZEN. Very well, and could be content to give him good report for't

but that he pays himself with being proud. SECOND CITIZEN. Nay, but

speak not maliciously. FIRST CITIZEN. I say unto you, what he hath done

famously he did it to that end; though soft-conscienc'd 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. SECOND CITIZEN.

What he cannot help in his nature you account a vice in him. You must in

no way say he is covetous. FIRST CITIZEN. If I must not, I need not be

barren of accusations; he hath faults, with surplus, to tire in repetition.

[Shouts

within] What shouts are these? The other side o' th' city is risen. Why

stay we prating here? To th' Capitol! ALL. Come, come. FIRST CITIZEN.

Soft! who comes here?

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Enter MENENIUS AGRIPPA

SECOND CITIZEN. Worthy Menenius Agrippa; one that hath always

lov'd the people. FIRST CITIZEN. He's one honest enough; would all the

rest were so! MENENIUS. What work's, my countrymen, in hand? Where

go you With bats and clubs? The matter? Speak, I pray you. 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. MENENIUS. Why, masters, my good friends, mine

honest neighbours, Will you undo yourselves? FIRST CITIZEN. We

cannot, sir; we are undone already. MENENIUS. I tell you, friends, most

charitable care Have the patricians of you. For your wants, Your suffering

in this dearth, you may as well Strike at the heaven with your staves as lift

them Against the Roman state; whose course will on The way it takes,

cracking ten thousand curbs Of more strong link asunder than can ever

Appear in your impediment. For the dearth, The gods, not the patricians,

make it, and Your knees to them, not arms, must help. Alack, You are

transported by calamity Thither where more attends you; and you slander

The helms o' th' state, who care for you like fathers, When you curse them

as enemies. FIRST CITIZEN. Care for us! True, indeed! They ne'er car'd

for us yet. Suffer us to famish, and their storehouses cramm'd 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. MENENIUS. Either you must Confess

yourselves wondrous malicious, Or be accus'd of folly. I shall tell you A

pretty tale. It may be you have heard it; But, since it serves my purpose, I

will venture To stale't a little more. 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. MENENIUS. There was a time when all the body's members

Rebell'd against the belly; thus accus'd it: That only like a gulf it did

remain I' th' midst o' th' body, idle and unactive, Still cupboarding the

viand, never bearing Like labour with the rest; where th' other instruments

Did see and hear, devise, instruct, walk, feel, And, mutually participate,

CORIOLANUS

did minister Unto the appetite and affection common Of the whole body.

The belly answer'd- FIRST CITIZEN. Well, sir, what answer made the

belly? MENENIUS. Sir, I shall tell you. With a kind of smile, Which ne'er

came from the lungs, but even thus- For look you, I may make the belly

smile As well as speak- it tauntingly replied To th' discontented members,

the mutinous parts That envied his receipt; even so most fitly As you

malign our senators for that They are not such as you. FIRST CITIZEN.

Your belly's answer- What? The kingly crowned head, the vigilant eye,

The counsellor heart, the arm our soldier, Our steed the leg, the tongue our

trumpeter, With other muniments and petty helps Is this our fabric, if that

they- MENENIUS. What then? Fore me, this fellow speaks! What then?

What then? FIRST CITIZEN. Should by the cormorant belly be restrain'd,

Who is the sink o' th' body- MENENIUS. Well, what then? FIRST

CITIZEN. The former agents, if they did complain, What could the belly

answer? MENENIUS. I will tell you; If you'll bestow a small- of what you

have little- Patience awhile, you'st hear the belly's answer. FIRST

CITIZEN. Y'are long about it. MENENIUS. Note me this, good friend:

Your most grave belly was deliberate, Not rash like his accusers, and thus

answered. 'True is it, my incorporate friends,' quoth he 'That I receive the

general food at first Which you do live upon; and fit it is, Because I am the

storehouse and the shop Of the whole body. But, if you do remember, I

send it through the rivers of your blood, Even to the court, the heart, to th'

seat o' th' brain; And, through the cranks and offices of man, The strongest

nerves and small inferior veins From me receive that natural competency

Whereby they live. And though that all at once You, my good friends'- this

says the belly; mark me. FIRST CITIZEN. Ay, sir; well, well. MENENIUS.

'Though all at once cannot See what I do deliver out to each, Yet I can

make my audit up, that all From me do back receive the flour of all, And

leave me but the bran.' What say you to' t? FIRST CITIZEN. It was an

answer. How apply you this? MENENIUS. The senators of Rome are this

good belly, And you the mutinous members; for, examine Their counsels

and their cares, digest things rightly Touching the weal o' th' common, you

shall find No public benefit which you receive But it proceeds or comes

from them to you, And no way from yourselves. What do you think, You,

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the great toe of this assembly? FIRST CITIZEN. I the great toe? Why the

great toe? MENENIUS. For that, being one o' th' lowest, basest, poorest,

Of this most wise rebellion, thou goest foremost. Thou rascal, that art

worst in blood to run, Lead'st first to win some vantage. But make you

ready your stiff bats and clubs. Rome and her rats are at the point of battle;

The one side must have bale.

Enter CAIUS MARCIUS

Hail, noble Marcius! MARCIUS. Thanks. What's the matter, you

dissentious rogues That, rubbing the poor itch of your opinion, Make

yourselves scabs? FIRST CITIZEN. We have ever your good word.

MARCIUS. He that will give good words to thee will flatter Beneath

abhorring. What would you have, you curs, That like nor peace nor war?

The one affrights you, The other makes you proud. He that trusts to you,

Where he should find you lions, finds you hares; Where foxes, geese; you

are no surer, no, Than is the coal of fire upon the ice Or hailstone in the

sun. Your virtue is To make him worthy whose offence subdues him, And

curse that justice did it. Who deserves greatness Deserves your hate; and

your affections are A sick man's appetite, who desires most that Which

would increase his evil. He that depends Upon your favours swims with

fins of lead, And hews down oaks with rushes. Hang ye! Trust ye? With

every minute you do change a mind And call him noble that was now your

hate, Him vile that was your garland. What's the matter That in these

several places of the city You cry against the noble Senate, who, Under the

gods, keep you in awe, which else Would feed on one another? What's

their seeking? MENENIUS. For corn at their own rates, whereof they say

The city is well stor'd. MARCIUS. Hang 'em! They say! They'll sit by th'

fire and presume to know What's done i' th' Capitol, who's like to rise,

Who thrives and who declines; side factions, and give out Conjectural

marriages, making parties strong, And feebling such as stand not in their

liking Below their cobbled shoes. They say there's grain enough! Would

the nobility lay aside their ruth And let me use my sword, I'd make a

quarry With thousands of these quarter'd slaves, as high As I could pick

my lance. MENENIUS. Nay, these are almost thoroughly persuaded; For

though abundantly they lack discretion, Yet are they passing cowardly. But,

CORIOLANUS

I beseech you, What says the other troop? MARCIUS. They are dissolv'd.

Hang 'em! They said they were an-hungry; sigh'd forth proverbs- That

hunger broke stone walls, that dogs must eat, That meat was made for

mouths, that the gods sent not Corn for the rich men only. With these

shreds They vented their complainings; which being answer'd, And a

petition granted them- a strange one, To break the heart of generosity And

make bold power look pale- they threw their caps As they would hang

them on the horns o' th' moon, Shouting their emulation. MENENIUS.

What is granted them? MARCIUS. Five tribunes, to defend their vulgar

wisdoms, Of their own choice. One's Junius Brutus- Sicinius Velutus, and

I know not. 'Sdeath! The rabble should have first unroof'd the city Ere so

prevail'd with me; it will in time Win upon power and throw forth greater

themes For insurrection's arguing. MENENIUS. This is strange.

MARCIUS. Go get you home, you fragments.

Enter a MESSENGER, hastily

MESSENGER. Where's Caius Marcius? MARCIUS. Here. What's

the matter? MESSENGER. The news is, sir, the Volsces are in arms.

MARCIUS. I am glad on't; then we shall ha' means to vent Our musty

superfluity. See, our best elders.

Enter COMINIUS, TITUS LARTIUS, with other SENATORS;

JUNIUS BRUTUS and SICINIUS VELUTUS

FIRST SENATOR. Marcius, 'tis true that you have lately told us: The

Volsces are in arms. MARCIUS. They have a leader, Tullus Aufidius, that

will put you to't. I sin in envying his nobility; And were I anything but

what I am, I would wish me only he. COMINIUS. You have fought

together? MARCIUS. Were half to half the world by th' ears, and he Upon

my party, I'd revolt, to make Only my wars with him. He is a lion That I

am proud to hunt. FIRST SENATOR. Then, worthy Marcius, Attend upon

Cominius to these wars. COMINIUS. It is your former promise.

MARCIUS. Sir, it is; And I am constant. Titus Lartius, thou Shalt see me

once more strike at Tullus' face. What, art thou stiff? Stand'st out?

LARTIUS. No, Caius Marcius; I'll lean upon one crutch and fight with

t'other Ere stay behind this business. MENENIUS. O, true bred! FIRST

SENATOR. Your company to th' Capitol; where, I know, Our greatest

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friends attend us. LARTIUS. [To COMINIUS] Lead you on. [To

MARCIUS] Follow Cominius; we must follow you; Right worthy your

priority. COMINIUS. Noble Marcius! FIRST SENATOR. [To the Citizens]

Hence to your homes; be gone. MARCIUS. Nay, let them follow. The

Volsces have much corn: take these rats thither To gnaw their garners.

Worshipful mutineers, Your valour puts well forth; pray follow. Ciitzens

steal away. Exeunt all but SICINIUS and BRUTUS SICINIUS. Was ever

man so proud as is this Marcius? BRUTUS. He has no equal. SICINIUS.

When we were chosen tribunes for the people- BRUTUS. Mark'd you his

lip and eyes? SICINIUS. Nay, but his taunts! BRUTUS. Being mov'd, he

will not spare to gird the gods. SICINIUS. Bemock the modest moon.

BRUTUS. The present wars devour him! He is grown Too proud to be so

valiant. SICINIUS. Such a nature, Tickled with good success, disdains the

shadow Which he treads on at noon. But I do wonder His insolence can

brook to be commanded Under Cominius. BRUTUS. Fame, at the which

he aims- In whom already he is well grac'd- cannot Better be held nor

more attain'd than by A place below the first; for what miscarries Shall be

the general's fault, though he perform To th' utmost of a man, and giddy

censure Will then cry out of Marcius 'O, if he Had borne the business!'

SICINIUS. Besides, if things go well, Opinion, that so sticks on Marcius,

shall Of his demerits rob Cominius. BRUTUS. Come. Half all Cominius'

honours are to Marcius, Though Marcius earn'd them not; and all his faults

To Marcius shall be honours, though indeed In aught he merit not.

SICINIUS. Let's hence and hear How the dispatch is made, and in what

fashion, More than his singularity, he goes Upon this present action.

BRUTUS. Let's along. Exeunt

CORIOLANUS

SCENE II. Corioli. The Senate House.

Enter TULLUS AUFIDIUS with SENATORS of Corioli

FIRST SENATOR. So, your opinion is, Aufidius, That they of Rome

are ent'red in our counsels And know how we proceed. AUFIDIUS. Is it

not yours? What ever have been thought on in this state That could be

brought to bodily act ere Rome Had circumvention? 'Tis not four days

gone Since I heard thence; these are the words- I think I have the letter

here; yes, here it is: [Reads] 'They have press'd a power, but it is not

known Whether for east or west. The dearth is great; The people mutinous;

and it is rumour'd, Cominius, Marcius your old enemy, Who is of Rome

worse hated than of you, And Titus Lartius, a most valiant Roman, These

three lead on this preparation Whither 'tis bent. Most likely 'tis for you;

Consider of it.' FIRST SENATOR. Our army's in the field; We never yet

made doubt but Rome was ready To answer us. AUFIDIUS. Nor did you

think it folly To keep your great pretences veil'd till when They needs must

show themselves; which in the hatching, It seem'd, appear'd to Rome. By

the discovery We shall be short'ned in our aim, which was To take in many

towns ere almost Rome Should know we were afoot. SECOND

SENATOR. Noble Aufidius, Take your commission; hie you to your bands;

Let us alone to guard Corioli. If they set down before's, for the remove

Bring up your army; but I think you'll find Th' have not prepar'd for us.

AUFIDIUS. O, doubt not that! I speak from certainties. Nay more, Some

parcels of their power are forth already, And only hitherward. I leave your

honours. If we and Caius Marcius chance to meet, 'Tis sworn between us

we shall ever strike Till one can do no more. ALL. The gods assist you!

AUFIDIUS. And keep your honours safe! FIRST SENATOR. Farewell.

SECOND SENATOR. Farewell. ALL. Farewell. Exeunt

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