Page 2872 - Shakespeare - Vol. 3

Upon the wounds his body bears, which show [50]
Like graves i’th’holy churchyard.

CORIOLANUS
Scratches with briers,
Scars to move laughter only.

MENENIUS
Consider further,

That when he speaks not like a citizen,
You find him like a soldier. Do not take
His rougher accents for malicious sounds, [55]
But, as I say, such as become a soldier

Rather than envy you.

COMINIUS
Well, well, no more.

CORIOLANUS
What is the matter
That being passed for consul with full voice,
I am so dishonoured that the very hour [60]

You take it off again?

SICINIUS
Answer to us.

CORIOLANUS
Say, then. ’Tis true, I ought so.

SICINIUS
We charge you that you have contrived to take
From Rome all seasoned office and to wind

Yourself into a power tyrannical, [65]
For which you are a traitor to the people.

CORIOLANUS