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    by such easy degrees as those , who , having been supple and courteous to the people , bonnetted , without any further deed to heave them at all into their estimation and report : but he hath so planted his honours in their eyes , and his actions in their hearts , that for their tongues to be silent , and not confess so much , were a kind of in grateful injury ; to report otherwise were a malice , that , giving itself the lie , would pluck reproof and rebuke from every ear that heard it . '

    And the deeds of Coriolanus justified all this and more . If he were proud ,, he was at least proud of worthy deeds . Could our English aristocracy be found thus , those for whom they make laws would reap some benefit . The senators take their seats ; and the tribunes snarl and carp , so as to provoke an opposite remark from old Menenius :

    • He loves your people ; But tie him not to be their bedfellow . ' Coriolanus himself adds , * I love them as they weigh . '

    He is asked to take his place in the senate , to listen to the praises of himself , but with a noble scorn he replies , * I'd rather have one scratch my head i * the sun , When the alarum were struck , than idly sit To hear my nothings monstered . Cominius , in reciting the deeds of Coriolanus from his youth up , begins ,

    ' It is held , That valour is the chiefest virtue , and Most dignifies the haver . ' Had it not been . so estimated , Rome could not have maintained herself . Coriolanus therefore exulted in the ' chief virtue , ' and could not but despise those who were lacking in it . Had

    other virtues been more in request , he would not have been found deficient in them . He was no sycophant , no lover of tyrants , but a sturdy resister of oppression in the behalf of others , even from his very boyhood . He was the ally of Collatinus , and one of the avengers of Lucretia Were the following passage spoken by one who felt it , and could do justice to it , it would stir the blood in flic laziest and most aged veins :

    * At sixteen vears , When Tarquin made a head for Rome , he fought Beyond the mark of others : our then dictator , Whom with all praise I point at , saw him fight , When with his Amazonian chin lie drove The bristled lips before him : he bestrul An u ' erprcsseil Unman , and i' the consul ' s view Sliiw thic ^ ojtpo : ci s : Tattjuin ' s self lie met , Anil btruck him on his knee ; in that day ' s feats ,

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    192 Coriolanus no Aristocrat .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1834, page 192, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2631/page/32/