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    The mother breaks out in angry imprecations afc r disap - pointment : * Now the red pestilence strike all trades in Rome And occupations perish . ' Coriolanus replies , I shall be loved when I am lacked . ' This is a true saying , and indicates an unfortunate condition of humanity , which is somewhat slow to discover the good which surrounds it , and becomes quick-sighted only when it is removed . The next scene is one of scolding between the tribunes and the wife and mother of the banished man . The tribunes continue to show like hypocrites , and the women like shrews . The scene changes to Antium , and Coriolanus is about to do that which none but a noble-minded man could imagine , much less practise , —to put himself in the power of his ancient enemy , Aufidius . But the nobleness is tainted with a defect . He is making his desire of vengeance on his own countrymen a pretext

    of favour at the hands of Aufidius . Thus it is , whenever a man stoops to an immoral action it is ever sure to bring the necessity for meannesses in its train . Coriolanus ' would not flatter Neptune for his trident , ' but he could stoop to show Aufidius how his interest would be served by foregoing the gratification of his vengeance . Nothing can explain this dereliction from his accustomed conduct but his own words :

    < For I will fight Against my cankered country , with the spleen Of all the under fiends . ' It has been said , that ' he who fears not death is the master of the lives of other men . ' There is undoubtedly a magnificent power even in mere physical courage , but when courage both mental and physical are united they produce a result which , in combination with high moral qualities , will make a man

    show like a god . The moral qualities of Coriolanus were obscured by his passionate desire of vengeance , ^ ^ en without it his magnificent nature at once trampled down all hate and all emulation in Aufidius . His causes of hatred passed by , and he was overwhelmed with the surpassing quiet nobleness of the being before him . It were as easy for a moth to quarrel with a sunbeam for dazzling it , as for the inferior nature of Aufidius to take the tone of an equal before his sometime foe . He is absolutely overpowered with the excess of his emotion , with the sensation of the honour done to him especially , in that from him , of all men , Coriolanus should seek to get his wants supplied . The strong mind , destitute of all outward appliances , has triumphed over the

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    296 Coriolanus no Aristocrat .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1834, page 296, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2632/page/68/