Tragedy of Coriolanus Author:William Shakespeare Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CORIOLANUS. PERSONS REPRESENTED. Caius Marcius Coriolanus. Young Marcius, his Son. Menenius Agrippa, his Friend. Titus Lartius, 1 Generals against COMINIUS... more », J the Volscians. Sicinius Velutus, ) Tribunes of the Junius Brutus, J People. A Roman Herald. Tullus Aufidius, General of the Volscians. Roman and Volscian Senators, Patricians, Ediles, Lictors, Soldiers, Citizens, Messengers, Servants to Aundius, and other Attendants. SCENE. — Partly in Romt and its neighbourhood; fartly in the Territories of the Volscians and Antiates. Lieutenant to Aufidius. Conspirators with Aundius. A Citizen of Antium. Two Volscian Guards. VOLUMNIA, Mother to Coriolanus. Virgilia, Wife to Coriolanus. Valeria, Friend to Virgilia. Gentlewoman attending Virgilia. ACT I. Scene I. — Rome. A Street. Enter a Company of mutinous Citizens, with staves, clubs, and other weapons. i Cit. Before we proceed any further, hear me speak. Citizens. Speak, speak. i Cit. You are all resolved rather to die than to famish ? Citizens. Resolved, resolved. i Cit. First, you know Caius Marcius is chief enemy to the people. Citizens. We know't, we know't. 1 Cit. Let us kill him, and we'll have corn at our own price. Is't a verdict ? Citizens. No more talking on't; let it be done: away, away! 2 Cit. One word, good citizens. 1 Cit. We are accounted poor citizens; the patricians, good.1 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,2 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 : 3...« less