Page 2785 - Shakespeare - Vol. 3

Nor did you think it folly
To keep your great pretences veiled till when [20]
They needs must show themselves, which in the hatching,
It seemed, appeared to Rome. By the discovery

We shall be shortened in our aim, which was
To take in many towns ere almost Rome
Should know we were afoot.

SECOND SENATOR
Noble Aufidius, [25]

Take your commission, hie you to your bands.
Let us alone to guard Corioles.
If they set down before’s, for the remove
Bring up your army. But, I think you’ll find
Th’ have not prepared for us.

AUFIDIUS
O, doubt not that. [30]
I speak from certainties. Nay more,
Some parcels of their power are forth already,
And only hitherward. I leave your honours.

If we and Caius Martius chance to meet,
’Tis sworn between us we shall ever strike [35]
Till one can do no more.

ALL
The gods assist you!

AUFIDIUS
And keep your honours safe!

FIRST SENATOR
Farewell.

SECOND SENATOR
Farewell.