'O thou fond many! . . .
So, so, thou common dog, didst thou disgorge
Thy glutton bosom of the royal Richard.'
III. i. 212. the rock Tarpeian. A part of the Capitoline hill, down which condemned criminals were cast to death.
III. i. 304–306. The service of the foot, Being once gangren'd, is not then respected For what before it was. Menenius is elaborating his statement in lines 294, 295, that the 'disease' in Coriolanus, which causes the plebeians to dislike him, is curable. Brutus, however, interrupts him.
III. ii. 21. The thwartings of. Theobald's emendation. The Folio reads 'The things of,' which does not make sense. In line 32, below, Theobald has again been followed in substituting 'herd' for the 'heart' of the Folio.
III. ii. 55, 56. such words that are but rooted in Your tongue. The Folio spells 'roated,' which can be interpreted as 'roted,' learned by rote, parrot-like; but one would then expect the following preposition to be 'on' rather than 'in.'
III. ii. 71, 72. Not what is dangerous present, but the loss Of what is past. Not only apply a healing salve to the present danger, but also save what you have already lost. 'Salve' in line 70 has a different sense with each of the object clauses.
III. ii. 74. And thus far having stretch'd it,—here be with them,—Thy knee bussing the stones. Stretching your conciliatory gestures to the point (do this to please their mood) of letting your knee caress the paving stones.
III. iii. 11. Have you collected them by tribes? This, like the counting of votes 'by the poll' (line 10), was a device to give weight to the plebeian vote. North says: 'And first of all the Tribunes would in any
