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Coriolanus

Act I, Scene 9

The Roman camp.
 
[Flourish. Alarum. A retreat is sounded. Flourish. Enter, from one side, COMINIUS with the Romans; from the other side, MARTIUS, with his arm in a scarf]
 
COMINIUS
         ,            ,          ,                 ,     ,
      If I | should tell | thee ore | this thy / day's work,
              ,        ,           ,           ,          x
      Thou'd^not | believe | thy deeds:| but I'll | report it,
             ,     ,           ,        ,             ,
      Where sen|ators | shall min|gle tears | with smiles,
              ,        ,          ,         ,          ,
      Where great | patri|cians shall | attend,| and shrug,
        2     ,        ,      ,    ,           2       ,
      In the end | admire:| where lad/ies shall be | frighted,
            ,        ,             ,         2      ,         ,
      And glad|ly quaked,| hear* more:| where the dull |*tribunes,
        ,      2       ,   2     ,         ,           ,
      That with the | fusty ple|beians,| hate thine | honors,
             ,        ,              ,          ,           ,
      Shall say | against | their hearts,| we thank | the gods
            ,           ,       ,
      Our Rome | hath such | a sol|dier.  \\
            ,       ,          ,       ,          ,
      Yet camst | thou to | a mor|sel of | this feast,
       ,        ,        ,        ,
      Having | fully | dined be|fore.
 
[Enter TITUS LARTIUS, with his power, from the pursuit]
 
LARTIUS
                                           ,  2
                                     Oh | general:
        ,             ,      ,          ,    ,
      Here is | the steed,| we the | capar|ison:
              ,        ,
      Hadst^thou | beheld--
 
MARTIUS
                               T   T    T     ,
                             Pray now, no | more:
      <-       ,            ,        ,       ,      ,           ,   ->
        My || mother,| who has | a chart|er to | extol || her blood,
            ,            ,            ,
      When she | does praise | me, grieves | me:
      <- ,           ,        ,           ,             ,       ,
         I || have done | as you | have done,| that's what | I can,
          ,         ,           ,       ,      2       ,
      Induced | as you | have been,| that's for my | country:
       ,         ,           ,              ,    ,
      He that | has but | effec|ted his / good will,
           ,      ,          ,
      Hath ov|ertane | mine act.  \\
 
COMINIUS
            ,          ,         ,          ,       ,       ->
      You shall | not be | the grave | of your | deserv||ing,
        ,           ,         ,      ,        ,
      Rome | must^know | the val|ue of | her own:
         ,            ,         ,         2    ,
      'Twere a | conceal|ment worse | than a theft,
           ,      ,   2      ,
      No less | than a tra|ducement,  \\
           ,          ,        ,        ,         ,
      To hide | your do|ings, and | to sil|ence that,
        ,              ,          ,         ,          ,
      Which to | the spire,| and top | of prais|es vouched,
              ,         ,         ,     ,   2     ,
      Would seem | but mod|est: there|fore I be|seech you,
           ,         ,         ,     ,           ,
      In sign | of what | you are,| not to | reward
        ,     2         ,        ,         ,       ,
      What you have | done, be|fore our | army | hear me.
 
MARTIUS
          ,            ,       ,         ,           ,
      I have | some wounds | upon | me, and | they smart
           ,           ,        ,
      To hear | themselves | remem|bered.
 
COMINIUS
                                             ,           ,
                                          Should | they not:
        ,               ,     2    ,        ,      ,
      Well might^|they fes|ter against | ingrat|itude,
            ,           ,            ,         ,         ,      ->
      And tent | themselves | with death:| Of all | the hors||es,
        ,        2         ,    ,       2        ,         ,
      Where|of we have / tane good,| and good* store | of all,
            ,      2     ,      ,        ,            ,
      The treas|ure in this | field a|chieved, and | city,
          ,       ,          ,               ,    ,
      We rend|er you | the tenth,| to be / tane forth,
          ,         ,       ,      ,   ,
      Before | the com|mon dis|tribu|tion,
        2      ,       ,
      At your on|ly choice.
 
MARTIUS
                                ,          ,    ,
                            I thank | you gen|eral:
           ,        ,         ,          ,         ,
      But can|not make | my heart | consent | to take
          ,         ,         ,        ,         x
      A bribe,| to pay | my sword:| I do | refuse it,
            ,       ,        ,        ,           ,
      And stand | upon | my com|mon part | with those,
             ,        ,         ,
      That have | beheld | the do|ing.  \\
 
[A long flourish. They all cry 'Martius! Martius!' cast up their caps and lances: COMINIUS and LARTIUS stand bare]
 
MARTIUS
                    ,   ,       ,            ,         ,
      May these / same inst|ruments,| which you | profane,
        Tx    T     T           ,           ,         ,
      Never sound more:| when drums | and trump|ets shall
        2      ,       ,     ,     2             ,          ,          ->
      In the field | prove flat/terers, let | courts and | cities || be
        ,     ,         T     T    T
      Made | all of | false-faced sooth|ing:
      <-  ,       T     T     T      2     ,      ,      __
        When || steel grows soft,| as the pa|rasite's | silk,
       ,             ,       ,      ,       2      ,
      Let him | be made | an ov|erture | for the wars:
           ,       ,     ,             ,           ,
      No more | I say,| for that | I have | not washed
           ,           ,          ,           ,         ,
      My nose | that bled,| or foiled | some deb|ile wretch,
        ,              ,            ,      ,           ,
      Which with|out^note,| here's^ma|ny else | have done,
            ,        ,       ,    ,       ,    ,
      You shout me forth in acclamations hyperbolical,  ????
          ,       ,           x        ,         , 2
      As if | I loved | my little | should be | dieted
           ,          ,            ,
      In prais|es, sauced | with lies.
 
COMINIUS
                                            ,     2     ,
                                      Too* mod|est are you:
        ,    ,                 ,       ,           ,
      More cruel / to your | good re|port than | grateful
        x             ,         ,       ,         ,
      To us, that | give you | truly:| by your | patience,
        2    ,           ,         ,        ,            ,        2->
      If against | yourself | you be | incensed,| we'll put || you
             ,           ,          ,        ,        ,     ,
      (Like^one | that means | his prop|er harm)| in man|acles,
            ,        ,       ,           ,         ,        ,
      Then reas|on safe|ly with | you: There|fore be | it known, (hex with prev)
           x         ,          ,           ,      ,       ->
      As to us,| to all | the world,| that Cai|us Mar||tius
        ,            ,      ,             x       2      ,
      Wears | this war's | garland:| in token | of the which,
          ,       ,       ,     2        ,         ,
      My nob|le steed,| known to the | camp, I | give him,
            ,          ,        ,        ,      T    T    T
      With all | his trim | belong|ing; and | from this time,
            ,        ,        ,       ,   ,     ,
      For what | he did | before | Cori|oli,| call him,  (hex with prev)
            ,       2     ,           ,      ,         ,
      With all | the applause | and clam|or of | the host,
Marcus Caius Coriolanus. Bear the addition nobly ever.
 
[Flourish. Trumpets sound, and drums]
 
ALL
       ,        ,         ,   ,      o
      Marcus | Caius | Cori|ola|nus.
 
CORIOLANUS
      ,             ,
      I will | go wash:   \\
            ,         ,         ,          ,          ,
      And when | my face | is fair,| you shall | perceive
       ,     2      ,          ,        x         ,
      Whether I | blush, or | no: how|beit, I | thank you.
          ,          ,            ,               ,    ,
      I mean | to stride | your steed,| and at / all times
          ,      ,            ,       ,
      To und|ercrest | your good | addi|tion,
      <- ,          ,        ,        x
        To || the fair|ness of | my power.
 
COMINIUS
                                           ,             ,
                                          So, to | our tent:
             ,        ,       ,         ,          ,
      Where^ere | we do | repose | us, we | will write
           ,        ,         ,     T   Tx    T       ->
      To Rome | of our | success:| You Titus Lar||tius
        ,          ,        ,          ,        ,
      Must to | Cori|oli* back,| send^us | to Rome
            ,           ,        ,       ,     ,
      The best,| with whom | we may | artic|ulate,
                   ,    ,          ,
      For their / own good,| and ours.
 
LARTIUS
                                          ,          ,
                                      I shall,| my lord.
 
CORIOLANUS
            ,       ,         ,    __   oo
      The gods | begin | to mock | me:|
      ,         ,       T     T    T         ,
      I that | now re|fused most prince|ly gifts,
           ,         ,              ,   ,    ,
      Am bound | to beg | of my / lord gen|eral.
 
COMINIUS
        ,              ,            x
      Take it,| 'tis yours:| what is it?  \\
 
CORIOLANUS
          ,        ,      ,          ,   ,
      I some|time^lay | here in | Cori|oli,
               ,    ,       ,           ,         ,
      At a / poor man's | house: he | used me | kindly,
           ,         ,      ,         ,     ,
      He cried | to me:| I saw | him pris|oner:
            ,       ,   2   ,         ,        ,
      But then | Aufid|ius was | within | my view,
            ,           ,          ,      2     ,    ,
      And wrath | orewhelmed | my pi|ty: I re/quest you
           ,     .   T    T    T     2
      To give | my poor host free|dom.
 
COMINIUS
                                               ,     ,
                                         Oh^/well begged:
        ,             ,       ,       ,          ,
      Were he | the butch|er of | my son,| he should
           ,     ,   2        ,       ,   2       ,
      Be free,| as is the | wind: de|liver him,| Titus.
 
LARTIUS
       ,              ,
      Martius,| his name.
 
CORIOLANUS
                              ,    ,        ,
                          By Jup|iter | forgot:
       2    ,       ,        ,    ,        ,
      I am wea|ry, yea,| my mem|ory is | tired:
        ,    2       T    T
      Have we no | wine here?
 
COMINIUS
                              T    ,            ,
                             Go | we to | our tent:
            ,       ,          ,        ,            ,
      The blood | upon | your vis|age dries,| 'tis time
            ,           ,           ,
      It should | be looked | to: come.   \\
 
[Exeunt]

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