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Thus, with his speechless hand: what he would do

He sent in writing after me, what he would not,

Bound with an oath to yield to his conditions:

So that all hope is vain

Unless his noble mother and his wife,

Who, as I hear, mean to solicit him

For mercy to his country. Therefore let's hence,

And with our fair entreaties haste them on.

1. Wat. Stay! whence are you?

2. Wat. Stand! and go back.

Men. You guard like men; 'tis well; but, by your leave,

I am an officer of state, and come

To speak with Coriolanus.

1. Wat. From whence?

Men. From Rome.

1. Wat. You may not pass; you must return: our general

Will no more hear from thence.

2. Wat. You'll see your Rome embrac'd with fire before

You'll speak with Coriolanus.

Men. Good my friends,

If you have heard your general talk of Rome,

And of his friends there, it is lots to blanks

 68–70 what conditions; cf. n.

72 Unless: unless in the efforts of  10 lots to blanks; cf. n.

