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. 332
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.
Scene Two
[The Same. A Room in Coriolanus's House]
Enter Coriolanus with Nobles.
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 4
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 8
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 12
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
