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    may not be thus slaked . As a last resource , his wife and toother are sent to him . Not in love to Rome , or to Rome ' s citizens , did "V olumnia go , but in love to herself . She knew that if Rome were nothing , she herself would lose all importance , and be little else but a slave to the Volscians . Hating Rome ' s mechanics , ' she found in her extremity that her own interests and theirs were synonymous . Her son is her enemy as well as theirs , to whom sne is suing for pardon in no fictitious earnestness . Beautiful is the expression of varying feelings in the stern man who has vowed to sacrifice all to vengeance : —

    1 melt , and am not Of stronger earth than others . mm ***** Let the Volsces Plough Rome , and harrow Italy : I'll never Be such a gosling to obey instinct : but stand As if a man were author of himself , And knew no other kin . '

    It may not be . € He melts , and is not of stronger earth than others / Like a dull actor now , I have forgot my part , and I am out , Even to a full disgrace . * * *

    Oh , a kiss , Long as my exile , sweet as my revenge 1 Now , by the jealous queen of heaven , that kiss I carried from thee , dear ; and my true lip Hath virgin'd it e ' er since . '

    He yields to the pressing entreaties of his wife and mother , as many a man hath done besides him ; yet he yields nobly . He does not abandon his allies , the Volsces , but while he proclaims peace with Rome he knows the risk he runs , and desires the sorry coward Aufidius to stand by him in this cause . He might have saved himself by returning to Rome , but it would have looked like cowardice , and he could bear no stain upon his honour . What he had done he had done , and he feared not to avow it

    and to defend it . Long before had Aufidius , in the savage ru mour of defeat , sworn , ' I ' 11 potch at him some way , Or wrath or craft may get him . '

    The crafty way is now open , and the Volscian army , with the Roman and his secret hater , wend their way back to Antium . Aufidius , himself a traitor to all honourable feelings , brands Coriolanus with the epithet ' traitor' before the assembled inhabitants of Antium . He is called a boy of tears , ' and his measureless indignation breaks forth in one last burst of magnificent scorn . The rage for national vengeance is aroused amongst those who

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1834, page 298, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2632/page/70/