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The fuller ' s friend takes it literally , and pushes forward to gape at the cicatrized chest of the warrior , who , however , stops hhn short with a contemptuous wave of the hand ,, and , ' Which shall be yours in private . Your good voice , sir ; What say you V
The fuller makes no reply ; but his companion , proud of having been asked for his vote , rushes to seize the patrician hand , saying , You shall have it , worthy sir . '
But the patrician ( according- to Mr . Macready s version ) withdraws his hand ; and to express his intense abhorrence at having condescended to ask for that which should ever be freely given or freely withheld , affects to cleanse it on the skirt of his tunic from the pollution of the contact , and continues his scoffs :
I have your alms , adieu . ' He turns away from them , and the fuller says his manner is f something odd / while his comrade wishes he had not given his vote . Two other citizens enter , and Coriolanus . is bitterly satirical , when he alleges as a reason why they should elect him , that he has ' the customary gown / In England a man tells the electors that he has the customary money ; and that is as germane to the purpose . One of the citizens tells him ,
* You have not , indeed , loved the common people . ' Half mournful , half scornful , is his reply ; and were it in England even now , it would be , alas , but too true ! The only remedy for it is education : 1 should account me the more virtuous , that I have not been common in my love . I will , sir , flatter my sworn brother , the people ,
to earn a clearer estimation of them ; ' tis a condition they account gentle : and since the wisdom of their choice is rather to have my cap than my heart , I will practise the insinuating nod , and be off to them most counterfeitingly ; that is , sir , I will counterfeit the bewitchment of some popular man , and give it bountifully to the desirers . '
The voices are given ' heartily' upon this showing , and Corio lanus is left to soliloquize as follows : ' Most sweet voices !—Better it is to die , better to starve , Then crave the hire , which first we do deserve . Why in this woolvish gown should I stand here , To beg of Hob and Dick , that do appear , Their needless vouches ! Custom calls me to * t : — What custom wills , in all things should we do ' t , The dust on ancient time would lie unswept , And mountainous error be too highl y heap'd For truth to overpeer . '
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1 <) 8 Coriolanu * no Aristocrat . '
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1834, page 198, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2631/page/38/
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