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    48 Coriolanus no Aristocrat .

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    Had he lived in modern Frahce , he would not have been slow to acknowledge the kindred spirits of the plebeian heroes of July . But look how the fuller ' s earth leader shrinks from his address ! 1 He that will give good words to thee will flatter Beneath abhorring . —What would you have , you curs , That like not peace , nor war ? The one affrights you , The other makes you proud . He that trusts you , Where he should find you lions , finds you hares ; Where foxes , geese * * * * . He that depends Upon your favours , swims with fins of lead , And hews down oaks with rushes * * * * . What ' s the matter ? That in the several places of the city You cry against the noble Senate , who , Under the gods , keep you in awe , which else Would feed on one another . What's their seeking V Menenius replies ,

    4 For corn at their own rates ; whereof , they say , The city is well stored . '

    The good people , notwithstanding their ready assistance , probably know as much about the matter as those in modern England , who deny that the great cause of physical misery is the disproportion of food to the number of the mouths ; and point to certain granaries containing wheat , and markets containing mutton , as a triumphant proof that there is no want of food ; something upon the principle of the boy ' father , who gave his child a shilling , telling him that so long as he kept it , he would never be without money . The corn which fed the Roman people was , it seems , kept in public granaries , rather a bad arrangement , but possibly one for which there was no remedy at the time , and the people were accustomed to go to those granaries to purchase it according to their wants . Now it is likely that the granary keepers were far better judges of the stock in hand than the people were . Sinister interests both the granary keepers and their masters , the senate , most probably had , and the only way to remedy this , was to appoint supervisors on the part of the people , viz . the tribunes . But the proposition to sell the corn cheap , upon the simple assertion of a crowd , that the city was well stored , ' was unreasonable , yet not enough so to warrant the fierce words of Marcius , also unreasonable in his turn , and—supposing his words serious—a cruel tyrant .

    • They say , there ' s grain enough ? Would the nobility lay aside their ruth , And let me use my sword , I'd make a quarry With thousands of these quarter ed slaves , as high A 8 I could pick my lance / Not you , Marcius , you would do no such thing . Your words are

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1834, page 48, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2629/page/50/