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VALERIA: Not out of doors! |
VOLUMNIA: She shall, she shall. |
VIRGILIA: Indeed, no, by your patience; I'll not over the threshold till my lord return from the wars. |
VALERIA: Fie, you confine yourself most unreasonably: come, you must go visit the good lady that lies in. |
VIRGILIA: I will wish her speedy strength, and visit her with my prayers; but I cannot go thither. |
VOLUMNIA: Why, I pray you? |
VIRGILIA: 'Tis not to save labour, nor that I want love. |
VALERIA: You would be another Penelope: yet, they say, all the yarn she spun in Ulysses' absence did but fill Ithaca full of moths. |
Come; I would your cambric were sensible as your finger, that you might leave pricking it for pity. |
Come, you shall go with us. |
VIRGILIA: No, good madam, pardon me; indeed, I will not forth. |
VALERIA: In truth, la, go with me; and I'll tell you excellent news of your husband. |
VIRGILIA: O, good madam, there can be none yet. |
VALERIA: Verily, I do not jest with you; there came news from him last night. |
VIRGILIA: Indeed, madam? |
VALERIA: In earnest, it's true; I heard a senator speak it. |
Thus it is: the Volsces have an army forth; against whom Cominius the general is gone, with one part of our Roman power: your lord and Titus Lartius are set down before their city Corioli; they nothing doubt prevailing and to make it brief wars. |
This is true, on mine honour; and so, I pray, go with us. |
VIRGILIA: Give me excuse, good madam; I will obey you in every thing hereafter. |
VOLUMNIA: Let her alone, lady: as she is now, she will but disease our better mirth. |
VALERIA: In troth, I think she would. |
Fare you well, then. |
Come, good sweet lady. |
Prithee, Virgilia, turn thy solemness out o' door. |
and go along with us. |
VIRGILIA: No, at a word, madam; indeed, I must not. |
I wish you much mirth. |
VALERIA: Well, then, farewell. |
MARCIUS: Yonder comes news. |
A wager they have met. |
LARTIUS: My horse to yours, no. |
MARCIUS: 'Tis done. |
LARTIUS: Agreed. |
MARCIUS: Say, has our general met the enemy? |
Messenger: They lie in view; but have not spoke as yet. |
LARTIUS: So, the good horse is mine. |
MARCIUS: I'll buy him of you. |
LARTIUS: No, I'll nor sell nor give him: lend you him I will For half a hundred years. |
Summon the town. |
MARCIUS: How far off lie these armies? |
Messenger: Within this mile and half. |
MARCIUS: Then shall we hear their 'larum, and they ours. |
Now, Mars, I prithee, make us quick in work, That we with smoking swords may march from hence, To help our fielded friends! |
Come, blow thy blast. |
Tutus Aufidius, is he within your walls? |
First Senator: No, nor a man that fears you less than he, That's lesser than a little. |
Hark! |
our drums Are bringing forth our youth. |
We'll break our walls, Rather than they shall pound us up: our gates, Which yet seem shut, we, have but pinn'd with rushes; They'll open of themselves. |
Hark you. |
far off! |
There is Aufidius; list, what work he makes Amongst your cloven army. |
MARCIUS: O, they are at it! |
LARTIUS: Their noise be our instruction. |
Ladders, ho! |
MARCIUS: They fear us not, but issue forth their city. |
Now put your shields before your hearts, and fight With hearts more proof than shields. |
Advance, brave Titus: They do disdain us much beyond our thoughts, Which makes me sweat with wrath. |
Come on, my fellows: He that retires I'll take him for a Volsce, And he shall feel mine edge. |
MARCIUS: All the contagion of the south light on you, You shames of Rome! |
you herd of--Boils and plagues Plaster you o'er, that you may be abhorr'd Further than seen and one infect another Against the wind a mile! |
You souls of geese, That bear the shapes of men, how have you run From slaves that apes would beat! |
Pluto and hell! |
All hurt behind; backs red, and faces pale With flight and agued fear! |
Mend and charge home, Or, by the fires of heaven, I'll leave the foe And make my wars on you: look to't: come on; If you'll stand fast, we'll beat them to their wives, As they us to our trenches followed. |
So, now the gates are ope: now prove good seconds: 'Tis for the followers fortune widens them, Not for the fliers: mark me, and do the like. |
First Soldier: Fool-hardiness; not I. |
Second Soldier: Nor I. |
First Soldier: See, they have shut him in. |
All: To the pot, I warrant him. |
LARTIUS: What is become of Marcius? |
All: Slain, sir, doubtless. |
First Soldier: Following the fliers at the very heels, With them he enters; who, upon the sudden, Clapp'd to their gates: he is himself alone, To answer all the city. |
LARTIUS: O noble fellow! |
Who sensibly outdares his senseless sword, And, when it bows, stands up. |
Thou art left, Marcius: A carbuncle entire, as big as thou art, Were not so rich a jewel. |
Thou wast a soldier Even to Cato's wish, not fierce and terrible Only in strokes; but, with thy grim looks and The thunder-like percussion of thy sounds, Thou madst thine enemies shake, as if the world Were feverous and did tremble. |
First Soldier: Look, sir. |
LARTIUS: O,'tis Marcius! |
Let's fetch him off, or make remain alike. |
First Roman: This will I carry to Rome. |
Second Roman: And I this. |
Third Roman: A murrain on't! |
I took this for silver. |
MARCIUS: See here these movers that do prize their hours At a crack'd drachm! |
Cushions, leaden spoons, Irons of a doit, doublets that hangmen would Bury with those that wore them, these base slaves, Ere yet the fight be done, pack up: down with them! |
And hark, what noise the general makes! |
To him! |
There is the man of my soul's hate, Aufidius, Piercing our Romans: then, valiant Titus, take Convenient numbers to make good the city; Whilst I, with those that have the spirit, will haste To help Cominius. |
LARTIUS: Worthy sir, thou bleed'st; Thy exercise hath been too violent for A second course of fight. |
MARCIUS: Sir, praise me not; My work hath yet not warm'd me: fare you well: The blood I drop is rather physical Than dangerous to me: to Aufidius thus I will appear, and fight. |
LARTIUS: Now the fair goddess, Fortune, Fall deep in love with thee; and her great charms Misguide thy opposers' swords! |
Bold gentleman, Prosperity be thy page! |
MARCIUS: Thy friend no less Than those she placeth highest! |
So, farewell. |
LARTIUS: Thou worthiest Marcius! |
Go, sound thy trumpet in the market-place; Call thither all the officers o' the town, Where they shall know our mind: away! |
COMINIUS: Breathe you, my friends: well fought; we are come off Like Romans, neither foolish in our stands, Nor cowardly in retire: believe me, sirs, We shall be charged again. |
Whiles we have struck, By interims and conveying gusts we have heard The charges of our friends. |
Ye Roman gods! |