> The locks o' the fenate, and bring in the crows 7 What may be fworn by, both divine and human, Seal what I end withal! This double worship,3 Where one part does difdain with cause, the other Infult without all reafon; where gentry, title, wif dom Cannot conclude, but by the yea and no it muft omit Real neceffities, and give way the while To unftable flightness: purpose fo barr'd, it fol lows, Nothing is done to purpose: Therefore, befeech you, You that will be lefs fearful than difcreet; That love the fundamental part of ftate, 5 More than you doubt the change of't; that prefer 2 Come, enough. ] Perhaps this imperfe& line was originally completed by a repetition of enough. STeevens. 3 No, take more: What may be worn by, both divine and human, Seal what I end withal!] The fenfe is, No, let me add this further; and may every thing divine and human which can give force to an oath, bear witnefs to the truth of what I fhall conclude with. The Romans fwore by what was human as well as divine; by their head, by their eyes, by the dead bones and ashes of their parents, &c. See Briffon de formulis, p. 808 817. HEATH. 4 Where one part In the old copy we have here, as in many other places, on inftead of one. The correction was made by Mr. Rowe. See Vol. XI. p. 390, n. 6. MALONE. 5 That love the fundamental part of fate, More than you doubt the change of't;] To doubt is to fear. The meaning is, You whofe zeal predominates over your terrours; you A noble life before a long, a wish 6 To jump a body with a dangerous phyfick 8 at once pluck out The multitudinous tongue, let them not lick The sweet which is their poifon :' your dishonour Mangles true judgement, and bereaves the state Of that integrity which fhould become it; 9 Not having the power to do the good it would, For the ill which doth control it. BRU. He has faid enough. who do not fo much fear the danger of violent measures, as wish the good to which they are neceffary, the preservation of the ori ginal conftitution of our government. JOHNSON. 6 To jump a body--Thus the old copy. read: To vamp Modern editors To jump anciently fignified to jolt, to give a rude concuffion to any thing. To jump a body may therefore mean, to put it into a violent agitation or commotion. So, in Phil. Holland's tranflation of Pliny's Nat. Hift. B. XXV. ch. v. p. 219: "If we looke for good fucceffe in our cure by miniftring ellebore, &c. for certainly it putteth the patient to a jumpe, or great hazard. STEEVENS. " From this paffage in Pliny, it should feem that "to jump a body,' meant to risk a body; and fuch an explication seems to me to be fupported by the context in the paffage before us. So, in Macbeth: "We'd jump the life to come. Again, in Antony and Cleopatra, A& III. ft. viii: The Sweet which is their poifon:] So, in Measure for Measure: STEEVENS. Mangles true judgement, ] Judgement is the faculty by which right is diftinguished from wrong. JOHNSON. 9 Of that integrity which should become it; ] Integrity is in this place foundness, uniformity, confiftency, in the fame fenfe as Dr. Warburton often ufes it, when he mentions the integrity of a metaphor. To become, is to fuit, to befit. JOHNSON. SIC. He has spoken like a traitor, and shall anfwer As traitors do. COR. Thou wretch! defpite o'erwhelm thee! - When what's not meet, but what must be, was law, BRU. Manifeft treafon. SIC. 9 This a conful? no. BRU. The ædiles, ho!-Let him be apprehended. SIC. Go, call the people; [Exit BRUTUS.] in whose name, myself Attach thee, as a traiterous innovator, A foe to the publick weal: Obey, I charge thee, And follow to thine answer. COR. Hence, old goat! Aged fir, hands off. SEN. and PAT. We'll furety him. COM. COR. Hence, rotten thing, or I fhall shake thy bones Out of thy garments. SIC. 2. Help, ye citizens. 9 Let what is meet, be faid, it must be meet,] Let it be faid by you, that what is meet to be done, must be meet, i. c. Shall be done, and put an end at once to the tribunitian power, which was eftablished, when irrefiftible violence, not a regard to propriety, dire&ed the legislature. MALONE. Re-enter BRUTUS, with the Ediles, and a rabble of Citizens. MEN. On both fides more refpect. SIC. Take from you all your power. Here's he, that would Seize him, Ediles. [ Several Speak. CIT. Down with him, down with him! 2. SEN. Weapons, weapons, weapons! [They all bustle about Coriolanus. -- Tribunes, patricians, citizens! what ho! — CIT. Peace, peace, peace; stay, hold, peace! SIC. 3 Hear me, people; - Peace. CIT. Let's hear our tribune: speak, speak. Peace. Speak, SIC. You are at point to lofe your liberties: Marcius would have all from you; Marcius, 3 To the people, Coriolanus, patience: ] I would read: Speak to the people.- Coriolanus, patience: · Speak, good Sicinius. TYRWHITT. Tyrwhitt propofes an amendment to this paffage, but nothing. is neceffary except to point it properly. Confufion's near, To the people. He defires the tribunes to speak to the people, because he was not able; and at the end of the speech repeats the fame reque to Sicinius in particular. M. MASON. I fee no need of any alteration. MALONE. Whom late you have nam'd for conful. MEN. Fie, fie, fie! This is the way to kindle, not to quench. 1. SEN. To unbuild the city, and to lay all flat. SIC. What is the city, but the people? CIT. The people are the city. True, BRU. By the confent of all, we were eftablifh'd The people's magiftrates. CIT. You fo remain. MEN. And fo are like to do. COR. That is the way to lay the city flat; And bury all, which yet diftin&tly ranges, SIC. This deferves death. BRU. Or let us ftand to our authority, Or let us lofe it: We do here pronounce, Upon the part o' the people, in whose power We were elected theirs, Marcius is worthy Of prefent death. SIC. Therefore, lay hold of him ; Bear him to the rock Tarpeian, and from thence Into deftruction caft him. BRU. CIT. Yield, Marcius, yield. ΜΕΝ. Ediles, feize him. Hear me one word. Befeech you, tribunes, hear me but a word. ÆDI. Peace, peace. MEN. Be that you feem, truly your country's friend, And temperately proceed to what you would |
