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The Tragedy of Coriolanus, III. ii

Bru. Go not home.

Sic. Meet on the market-place. We'll attend you there:

Where, if you bring not Martius, we'll proceed

In our first way.

Men. I'll bring him to you.

[To the Senators.] Let me desire your company. He must come,

Or what is worst will follow.

Sen. Pray you, let's to him.

Exeunt omnes.

Cor. Let them pull all about mine ears; present me

Death on the wheel, or at wild horses' heels;

Or pile ten hills on the Tarpeian rock,

That the precipitation might down stretch

Below the beam of sight; yet will I still

Be thus to them.

Noble. You do the nobler.

Cor. I muse my mother

Does not approve me further, who was wont

To call them woollen vassals, things created

To buy and sell with groats, to show bare heads

In congregations, to yawn, be still, and wonder,

When one but of my ordinance stood up

To speak of peace or war.

 4 precipitation: steepness

5 Below sight: lower than eyesight can reach

7 muse: wonder

9 woollen vassals: coarsely dressed underlings

10 groats: four-penny coins

12 ordinance: rank

