1 00:01:53,979 --> 00:01:57,059 Before we proceed any further, hear me speak. 2 00:01:58,259 --> 00:02:01,377 You are all resolved rather to die than to famish? 3 00:02:01,378 --> 00:02:03,778 Resolved. 4 00:02:03,779 --> 00:02:07,698 First, you know Caius Martius is chief enemy to the people. 5 00:02:07,699 --> 00:02:11,098 - We know it. - Let us kill him. 6 00:02:13,500 --> 00:02:15,618 And we will have corn at our own price. 7 00:02:15,619 --> 00:02:19,699 We are accounted poor citizens, the patricians good. 8 00:02:20,939 --> 00:02:22,858 The leanness that afflicts us, 9 00:02:22,859 --> 00:02:27,138 the object of our misery, our suffering, is a gain to them. 10 00:02:27,139 --> 00:02:28,298 Aye... 11 00:02:28,299 --> 00:02:32,299 Let us revenge this with our sticks, ere we become rakes. 12 00:02:32,300 --> 00:02:33,619 No more talking on it. Come. 13 00:02:34,660 --> 00:02:36,338 Soft, soft, who comes here? 14 00:02:36,339 --> 00:02:38,179 ...friends, mine honest neighbors... 15 00:02:38,180 --> 00:02:42,259 Worthy Senator Menenius, one that has always loved the people. 16 00:02:42,260 --> 00:02:47,379 I tell you, friends, most charitable care have the patricians of you. 17 00:02:47,380 --> 00:02:50,139 For your wants, your suffering in this dearth, 18 00:02:50,140 --> 00:02:52,859 you may as well strike at the heavens with your staves 19 00:02:52,860 --> 00:02:55,299 as lift them against the Roman state. 20 00:02:55,300 --> 00:02:59,300 Suffer us to famish, and their storehouses crammed with grain. 21 00:03:55,223 --> 00:03:56,742 Bread. 22 00:03:59,183 --> 00:04:02,781 - Bread. - Bread. 23 00:04:02,782 --> 00:04:03,472 Bread. 24 00:04:07,343 --> 00:04:11,422 Bread, bread, bread.... 25 00:04:31,503 --> 00:04:33,422 Bread, bread, bread... 26 00:04:53,624 --> 00:04:55,383 Stop. 27 00:04:57,064 --> 00:04:59,464 Stop. Stop. 28 00:05:07,665 --> 00:05:10,423 What's the matter, you dissentious rogues, 29 00:05:10,424 --> 00:05:14,743 that, rubbing the poor itch of your opinion, make yourselves scabs? 30 00:05:14,744 --> 00:05:17,223 We have ever your good word. 31 00:05:17,224 --> 00:05:22,743 He that will give good words to thee will flatter beneath abhorring. 32 00:05:22,744 --> 00:05:27,463 What would you have, you curs, that like nor peace nor war? 33 00:05:27,464 --> 00:05:30,663 The one affrights you, the other makes you proud. 34 00:05:30,664 --> 00:05:33,503 He that trusts to you, where he should find you lions, 35 00:05:33,504 --> 00:05:37,224 finds you hares, where foxes, geese. 36 00:05:38,705 --> 00:05:43,465 Who deserves greatness, deserves your hate. 37 00:05:44,546 --> 00:05:47,264 Hang ye. Trust ye? 38 00:05:47,265 --> 00:05:49,624 With every minute you do change your mind, 39 00:05:49,625 --> 00:05:51,864 and call him noble that was now your hate, 40 00:05:51,865 --> 00:05:54,063 him vile that was your garland. 41 00:05:54,064 --> 00:05:57,184 What's the matter, that in these several places of the city 42 00:05:57,185 --> 00:06:02,184 you cry against the noble senate, who, under the gods, keep you in awe, 43 00:06:02,185 --> 00:06:05,065 which else would feed on one another? 44 00:06:07,386 --> 00:06:08,105 Go. 45 00:06:09,306 --> 00:06:10,705 Get you home... 46 00:06:12,186 --> 00:06:14,586 ...you fragments. 47 00:06:38,227 --> 00:06:39,946 - Go back. - Forward. 48 00:06:45,667 --> 00:06:48,067 Go back. 49 00:07:35,789 --> 00:07:38,148 - Please... - Know you me yet? 50 00:07:39,749 --> 00:07:41,348 I know you well. 51 00:07:42,229 --> 00:07:45,268 Your name, I think, is Aufidius. 52 00:07:47,429 --> 00:07:48,868 It is so. 53 00:07:50,469 --> 00:07:54,029 - I am a Roman. - What's the news in Rome? 54 00:08:06,429 --> 00:08:07,548 What's the news in Rome? 55 00:08:08,790 --> 00:08:12,109 There hath been in Rome strange insurrections. 56 00:08:13,269 --> 00:08:18,108 - The people against the senators. - Hath been? Is it ended then? 57 00:08:18,109 --> 00:08:20,508 The main blaze of it is past, 58 00:08:20,509 --> 00:08:23,389 but a small thing would make it flame again. 59 00:08:24,430 --> 00:08:26,109 You have ended my business. 60 00:08:35,430 --> 00:08:38,349 The news is the Volsces are in arms. 61 00:08:38,350 --> 00:08:42,669 They have a leader, Tullus Aufidius, that will put you to it. 62 00:08:42,670 --> 00:08:46,469 I sin in envying his nobility. 63 00:08:47,430 --> 00:08:50,549 And were I anything but what I am, I would wish me only he. 64 00:08:50,550 --> 00:08:51,830 You have fought together? 65 00:08:52,791 --> 00:08:55,750 He is a lion that I am proud to hunt. 66 00:08:57,471 --> 00:09:02,030 Titus Lartius, thou shalt see me once more strike at Tullus' face. 67 00:09:03,231 --> 00:09:04,310 Lead you on. 68 00:09:20,712 --> 00:09:22,430 So your opinion is, Aufidius, 69 00:09:22,431 --> 00:09:25,030 that they of Rome are entered in our counsels 70 00:09:25,031 --> 00:09:27,630 - and know how we proceed. - Is it not yours? 71 00:09:27,631 --> 00:09:30,351 It is not four days gone since I heard thence. 72 00:09:31,112 --> 00:09:34,230 By the discovery, we shall be shortened in our aim. 73 00:09:34,231 --> 00:09:38,431 And it is rumored Martius, your old enemy, leads on this preparation. 74 00:09:38,432 --> 00:09:41,910 If we and Caius Martius chance to meet, it is sworn between us 75 00:09:41,911 --> 00:09:44,951 we shall ever strike till one can do no more. 76 00:09:45,793 --> 00:09:48,910 If ever again I meet him beard to beard, 77 00:09:48,911 --> 00:09:52,112 he's mine or I am his. 78 00:10:28,754 --> 00:10:30,193 Mark me. 79 00:10:34,194 --> 00:10:36,591 They do disdain us much beyond our thoughts. 80 00:10:36,592 --> 00:10:40,313 He that retires, I will take him for a Volsce and he shall feel mine edge. 81 00:10:40,714 --> 00:10:41,833 Go. 82 00:11:23,115 --> 00:11:24,234 Come on. 83 00:11:28,115 --> 00:11:29,235 Away. 84 00:12:03,996 --> 00:12:05,874 The citizens of Corioles have issued 85 00:12:05,875 --> 00:12:07,915 and given to Titus and to Martius battle. 86 00:12:07,916 --> 00:12:11,114 We have heard their drums. I saw our forces to their trenches 87 00:12:11,115 --> 00:12:12,956 driven, and then I came away... 88 00:12:15,677 --> 00:12:19,955 I pray you, daughter, sing, 89 00:12:19,956 --> 00:12:22,796 or express yourself in a more comfortable sort. 90 00:12:24,957 --> 00:12:27,555 If my son were my husband, 91 00:12:27,556 --> 00:12:31,795 I would more freely rejoice in that absence 92 00:12:31,796 --> 00:12:35,395 wherein he won honor than in the embracements of his bed 93 00:12:35,396 --> 00:12:37,195 where he would show most love. 94 00:12:37,196 --> 00:12:41,636 When yet he was but tender-bodied and the only son of my womb, 95 00:12:41,637 --> 00:12:46,436 I, considering how honor would become such a person, 96 00:12:46,437 --> 00:12:51,757 was pleased to let him seek danger, where he was like to find fame. 97 00:12:53,077 --> 00:12:55,476 To a cruel war I sent him, 98 00:12:55,477 --> 00:12:59,276 from whence he returned, his brows bound with oak. 99 00:12:59,277 --> 00:13:02,436 But had he died in the business, madam, how then? 100 00:13:02,437 --> 00:13:03,757 Then... 101 00:13:05,638 --> 00:13:08,597 ...his good report should have been my son. 102 00:13:10,558 --> 00:13:12,277 Hear me. 103 00:13:14,238 --> 00:13:17,037 Had I a dozen sons, 104 00:13:17,038 --> 00:13:22,596 I had rather eleven die nobly for their country, 105 00:13:22,597 --> 00:13:25,517 than one voluptuously surfeit out of action. 106 00:13:25,518 --> 00:13:27,957 Heavens bless my lord from fell Aufidius. 107 00:13:27,958 --> 00:13:31,398 He will beat Aufidius' head below his knee and tread upon his neck. 108 00:13:32,799 --> 00:13:37,998 Me thinks I hear hither your husband's drum. 109 00:13:40,839 --> 00:13:45,682 I see him....... stamp....... thus, 110 00:13:46,479 --> 00:13:48,438 cry thus: 111 00:13:48,439 --> 00:13:52,597 Come on, you cowards. 112 00:13:52,598 --> 00:13:56,519 You were got in fear, though you were born in Rome. 113 00:14:00,480 --> 00:14:05,438 You souls of geese that bear the shapes of men. 114 00:14:05,439 --> 00:14:09,038 Pluto and hell. Look to it. Come on. 115 00:14:10,760 --> 00:14:13,918 Mend and charge home, 116 00:14:13,919 --> 00:14:19,159 or, by the fires of heaven, I will leave the foe and make my wars on you. 117 00:14:29,800 --> 00:14:32,678 His bloody brow then wiping, forth he goes. 118 00:14:32,679 --> 00:14:35,199 His bloody brow? O Jupiter, no blood. 119 00:14:35,200 --> 00:14:37,718 Away, you fool. 120 00:14:37,719 --> 00:14:40,639 It more becomes a man than gold his trophy. 121 00:14:40,640 --> 00:14:42,518 Senator Menenius is come to visit you. 122 00:14:42,519 --> 00:14:44,639 Tell him we are fit to bid him welcome. 123 00:14:44,640 --> 00:14:46,959 Beseech you, give me leave to retire myself. 124 00:14:46,960 --> 00:14:51,960 - Indeed, you shall not. - My ladies both, good day to you. 125 00:14:54,361 --> 00:14:57,840 How do you both? And how does your little son? 126 00:14:57,841 --> 00:14:59,399 I thank you, sir. Well, good. 127 00:14:59,400 --> 00:15:01,639 He'd rather play with swords and hear a drum 128 00:15:01,640 --> 00:15:04,561 - than look upon his schoolmaster. - On my word, the father's son. 129 00:15:06,441 --> 00:15:10,359 Come, I must have you play the idle housewife with me this afternoon. 130 00:15:10,360 --> 00:15:12,200 No, good sir, I will not out of doors. 131 00:15:12,201 --> 00:15:14,319 - Not out of doors? - She shall, she shall. 132 00:15:14,320 --> 00:15:16,320 Indeed, no, by your patience. 133 00:15:16,321 --> 00:15:19,240 I will not over the threshold till my lord return from the wars. 134 00:15:19,241 --> 00:15:21,760 Fie, you confine yourself most unreasonably. 135 00:15:21,761 --> 00:15:25,680 - I cannot go hither. - O you would be another Penelope. 136 00:15:25,681 --> 00:15:29,240 Yet they say, all the yarn she spun in Ulysses' absence 137 00:15:29,241 --> 00:15:31,321 did but fill Ithaca full of moths. 138 00:15:32,882 --> 00:15:37,160 No, good sir. Pardon me. Indeed, I will not forth. 139 00:15:37,161 --> 00:15:40,720 Go with me, and I will tell you excellent news of your husband. 140 00:15:40,721 --> 00:15:43,000 No, good sir, there can be none yet. 141 00:15:43,001 --> 00:15:44,881 - There came news from him last night. - Indeed? 142 00:15:44,882 --> 00:15:48,801 Your lord and Titus Lartius are set down before the Volscian city of Carioles. 143 00:15:48,802 --> 00:15:52,761 They nothing doubt prevailing, and to make it brief wars. 144 00:15:52,762 --> 00:15:57,401 This is true, on mine honor. So, I pray, go out with us. 145 00:15:57,402 --> 00:16:01,521 Give me excuse, good sir. I will obey you in everything hereafter. 146 00:16:01,522 --> 00:16:05,242 Let her alone. As she is now, she will but disease our better mirth. 147 00:17:54,286 --> 00:17:58,605 - What is become of Martius? - Slain, sir, doubtless. 148 00:17:58,606 --> 00:18:02,045 He is himself alone, to answer all the city. 149 00:18:03,407 --> 00:18:07,005 Thou art lost, Martius. 150 00:18:26,007 --> 00:18:28,966 Who's yonder, that does appear as he were flayed? 151 00:18:30,247 --> 00:18:33,285 O gods. He has the stamp of Martius. 152 00:18:33,286 --> 00:18:38,370 - Come I too late? - Come I too late? 153 00:18:38,687 --> 00:18:41,206 Aye, if you come not in the blood of others, but mantled in your own. 154 00:18:44,767 --> 00:18:47,126 Let me hold you in arms as sound as when I wooed, 155 00:18:47,127 --> 00:18:50,007 in heart as merry as when our nuptial day was done. 156 00:18:51,287 --> 00:18:55,125 There is the man of my soul's hate. Aufidius, piercing our Romans. 157 00:18:55,126 --> 00:18:56,966 Worthy sir, thou bleeds. 158 00:18:56,967 --> 00:18:59,806 Thy exercise has been too violent for a second course of fight. 159 00:18:59,807 --> 00:19:02,726 Sir, praise me not. My work hath not yet warmed me. 160 00:19:02,727 --> 00:19:06,046 The blood I drop is more medicinal than dangerous to me. 161 00:19:06,047 --> 00:19:08,807 To Aufidius thus I will appear and fight. 162 00:19:10,888 --> 00:19:14,326 If any such be here, as it were sin to doubt, 163 00:19:14,327 --> 00:19:16,966 that love this painting wherein you see me smeared, 164 00:19:16,967 --> 00:19:20,047 if any fear lesser his person than an ill report, 165 00:19:20,048 --> 00:19:23,366 if any think brave death outweighs bad life, 166 00:19:23,367 --> 00:19:25,647 and that his country is dearer than himself, 167 00:19:25,648 --> 00:19:29,447 let him alone, or so many so minded 168 00:19:29,448 --> 00:19:33,688 wave thus, to express his disposition, and follow Martius. 169 00:19:36,808 --> 00:19:40,968 O... me alone. 170 00:19:48,209 --> 00:19:51,568 Make you a sword of me. 171 00:20:10,210 --> 00:20:11,169 Oi. 172 00:20:13,130 --> 00:20:14,729 Advance, brave Titus. 173 00:20:25,130 --> 00:20:26,409 Away. 174 00:20:41,451 --> 00:20:42,929 Come. Come. 175 00:21:13,452 --> 00:21:18,449 I will fight with none but thee, for I do hate thee. 176 00:21:18,450 --> 00:21:20,651 We hate alike. 177 00:24:36,977 --> 00:24:41,097 Five times, Martius, I have fought with thee. 178 00:24:42,458 --> 00:24:46,495 So often has thou beat me, and would do so, I fear, 179 00:24:46,496 --> 00:24:49,577 should we encounter as often as we eat. 180 00:24:50,777 --> 00:24:54,616 For where I thought to crush him in an equal force, 181 00:24:54,617 --> 00:24:59,176 true sword to sword, I will potch at him some way. 182 00:24:59,177 --> 00:25:02,016 Or wrath or craft may get him. 183 00:25:02,017 --> 00:25:03,976 He's the devil. 184 00:25:03,977 --> 00:25:07,937 Bolder, though not so subtle. 185 00:25:10,858 --> 00:25:16,456 Nor sleep, nor sanctuary, being naked, sick, 186 00:25:16,457 --> 00:25:19,416 the prayers of priests, nor times of sacrifice 187 00:25:19,417 --> 00:25:22,056 shall lift up their rotten privilege and custom 188 00:25:22,057 --> 00:25:24,458 against my hate to Martius. 189 00:25:27,339 --> 00:25:31,577 Where I find him, were it at home, 190 00:25:31,578 --> 00:25:34,617 upon my brother's guard, 191 00:25:34,618 --> 00:25:40,138 even there, will I wash my fierce hand in his heart. 192 00:25:42,259 --> 00:25:43,939 Honorable Menenius. 193 00:25:45,580 --> 00:25:47,577 My boy, Martius, approaches. 194 00:25:47,578 --> 00:25:49,617 For the love of Juno, let's go. 195 00:25:49,618 --> 00:25:52,097 Is he not wounded? He was wont to come home wounded. 196 00:25:52,098 --> 00:25:54,977 O yes, he is wounded. I thank the gods for it. 197 00:25:54,978 --> 00:25:58,018 O, so do I too, if it be not too much. 198 00:25:58,019 --> 00:26:00,098 Brings a victory in his pocket, the wounds become him. 199 00:26:00,099 --> 00:26:02,418 Has he disciplined Aufidius soundly? 200 00:26:02,419 --> 00:26:05,458 Titus Lartius said they fought together, but Aufidius got off. 201 00:26:05,459 --> 00:26:07,738 In truth, there's wondrous things spoke of him. 202 00:26:07,739 --> 00:26:09,138 Gods grant them true. 203 00:26:09,139 --> 00:26:11,538 - True. - I will be sworn they're true. 204 00:26:11,539 --> 00:26:12,738 Where is he wounded? 205 00:26:12,739 --> 00:26:14,778 In the shoulder and in the left arm. 206 00:26:14,779 --> 00:26:16,778 There will be large scars to show the people 207 00:26:16,779 --> 00:26:18,658 when he shall stand for his place. 208 00:26:18,659 --> 00:26:20,458 He had, before this last expedition, 209 00:26:20,459 --> 00:26:24,019 - 25 wounds upon him. - Now it's 27. 210 00:26:26,461 --> 00:26:28,819 Every gash was an enemy's grave. 211 00:26:51,141 --> 00:26:56,379 Before him he carries noise, and behind him he leaves tears. 212 00:26:56,380 --> 00:27:01,940 Death, that dark spirit, in his nervy arm doth lie. 213 00:27:01,941 --> 00:27:06,461 Which, being advanced, declines, and then men die. 214 00:27:16,102 --> 00:27:18,660 Be it known, as to us, to all the world, 215 00:27:18,661 --> 00:27:21,180 that Caius Martius wears this war's garland. 216 00:27:21,181 --> 00:27:24,940 And, from this time, for what he did before Corioles, 217 00:27:24,941 --> 00:27:29,220 call him, with all the applause and clamor of the host: 218 00:27:29,221 --> 00:27:35,022 "Caius Martius Coriolanus." Bear the addition nobly ever. 219 00:27:36,422 --> 00:27:39,581 Caius Martius Coriolanus. 220 00:27:49,182 --> 00:27:52,101 No more of this. It does offend my heart. Pray now, no more. 221 00:27:52,102 --> 00:27:54,381 Look, sir, your mother. 222 00:27:59,783 --> 00:28:04,621 O, you have, I know, petitioned all the gods for my prosperity. 223 00:28:04,622 --> 00:28:06,861 Nay, my good soldier, up. 224 00:28:06,862 --> 00:28:11,141 Ah, my gentle Martius, worthy Caius, 225 00:28:11,142 --> 00:28:16,661 and by deed-achieving honor newly named... What is it? 226 00:28:16,662 --> 00:28:19,382 "Coriolanus" must I call thee? 227 00:28:20,903 --> 00:28:22,863 But, O, thy wife... 228 00:28:25,224 --> 00:28:29,103 My gracious silence, hail. 229 00:28:32,664 --> 00:28:34,862 Wouldst thou have laughed had I come coffined home, 230 00:28:34,863 --> 00:28:36,783 that weeps to see me triumph? 231 00:28:38,304 --> 00:28:42,302 Aye, my dear, such eyes the widows in Corioles wear, 232 00:28:42,303 --> 00:28:45,703 and mothers that lack sons. 233 00:28:48,744 --> 00:28:52,103 - Now, the gods crown thee. - And live you yet? 234 00:28:52,104 --> 00:28:55,503 I could weep and I could laugh. I am light and heavy. 235 00:28:55,504 --> 00:28:57,622 I know not where to turn. 236 00:28:57,623 --> 00:29:00,823 O, you are welcome home. You are welcome all. 237 00:29:00,824 --> 00:29:04,062 - A hundred thousand welcomes. - Welcome all. 238 00:29:04,063 --> 00:29:06,543 Welcome, Coriolanus. 239 00:29:06,544 --> 00:29:08,303 Welcome. 240 00:29:21,465 --> 00:29:23,823 It is thought that Martius shall be consul. 241 00:29:23,824 --> 00:29:25,623 I have seen the dumb men throng to see him, 242 00:29:25,624 --> 00:29:27,303 and the blind to hear him speak. 243 00:29:27,304 --> 00:29:30,064 Matrons flung gloves, ladies and maids their scarves 244 00:29:30,065 --> 00:29:31,744 and handkerchiefs upon him as he passed. 245 00:29:31,745 --> 00:29:33,983 The nobles bended as to Jove's statue. 246 00:29:33,984 --> 00:29:36,944 And the commons made a shower and thunder with their caps and shouts. 247 00:29:36,945 --> 00:29:38,545 I never saw the like. 248 00:29:39,386 --> 00:29:42,264 Was ever a man so proud as is this Martius? 249 00:29:42,265 --> 00:29:43,823 He has no equal. 250 00:29:43,824 --> 00:29:45,584 When we were chosen tribunes for the people... 251 00:29:45,585 --> 00:29:48,904 - Marked you his lip and eyes? - Nay, but his taunts. 252 00:29:48,905 --> 00:29:51,945 The augurer tells me we shall have news tonight. 253 00:29:52,586 --> 00:29:53,944 Good or bad? 254 00:29:53,945 --> 00:29:57,544 Not according to the prayer of the people, for they love not Martius. 255 00:29:57,545 --> 00:30:00,266 Nature teaches beasts to know their friends. 256 00:30:06,506 --> 00:30:08,306 You blame Martius for being proud? 257 00:30:09,226 --> 00:30:13,585 - We do it not alone, sir. - I know you can do very little alone. 258 00:30:17,146 --> 00:30:18,586 You talk of pride. 259 00:30:20,107 --> 00:30:22,625 O that you could turn your eyes towards the napes of your necks 260 00:30:22,626 --> 00:30:25,305 and make but an interior survey of your good selves. 261 00:30:25,306 --> 00:30:28,025 - O that you could. - What then, sir? 262 00:30:28,026 --> 00:30:32,065 Why, then you should discover a brace of unmeriting, proud, 263 00:30:32,066 --> 00:30:37,946 violent, testy politicians, alias fools, as any in Rome. 264 00:30:37,947 --> 00:30:42,146 Menenius, you are known well enough too. 265 00:30:42,947 --> 00:30:45,186 I am known to be a humorous patrician, 266 00:30:45,187 --> 00:30:48,985 and one that loves a cup of hot wine with not a drop of allaying water in it. 267 00:30:48,986 --> 00:30:51,346 One that converses more with the buttock of the night 268 00:30:51,347 --> 00:30:53,146 than with the forehead of the morning. 269 00:30:53,147 --> 00:30:57,346 What I think I utter, and spend my malice in my breath. 270 00:30:57,347 --> 00:30:59,346 Come, sir, come, we know you well enough. 271 00:30:59,347 --> 00:31:03,707 You know neither me, yourselves, nor anything. 272 00:31:07,189 --> 00:31:10,267 You're ambitious. 273 00:31:12,789 --> 00:31:14,708 Good e'en to your worships. 274 00:31:15,228 --> 00:31:17,906 More of your conversation would infect my brain. 275 00:31:17,907 --> 00:31:21,027 - How many stand for the consulship? - Three, they say, 276 00:31:21,028 --> 00:31:23,347 but it is thought of everyone Coriolanus will carry it. 277 00:31:23,348 --> 00:31:26,146 That's a brave fellow, but he is vengeance proud 278 00:31:26,147 --> 00:31:27,587 and loves not the common people. 279 00:31:27,588 --> 00:31:29,507 There have been many great men that have flattered the people 280 00:31:29,508 --> 00:31:30,827 who never loved them. 281 00:31:30,828 --> 00:31:33,667 Therefore, for Coriolanus, neither to care whether they love or hate him 282 00:31:33,668 --> 00:31:36,507 manifests the true knowledge he has in their disposition. 283 00:31:36,508 --> 00:31:39,707 And, out of his noble carelessness, lets them plainly see it. 284 00:31:39,708 --> 00:31:43,227 But he seeks their hate with greater devotion than they can render at him. 285 00:31:43,228 --> 00:31:45,907 Now to seem to desire the malice and displeasure of the people 286 00:31:45,908 --> 00:31:48,947 is as bad as that which he dislikes, to flatter them for their love. 287 00:31:48,948 --> 00:31:51,107 Consider you what services he has done for his country? 288 00:31:51,108 --> 00:31:53,867 Very well. And would be content to give him good report for it, 289 00:31:53,868 --> 00:31:56,148 but that he pays himself with being proud. 290 00:31:56,149 --> 00:31:59,309 Nay, but speak not maliciously. He hath deserve worthily of his country. 291 00:32:25,231 --> 00:32:26,948 The good senators must be visited, 292 00:32:26,949 --> 00:32:29,108 from whom I have received not only greetings, 293 00:32:29,109 --> 00:32:31,429 but with them change of honors. 294 00:32:33,711 --> 00:32:38,949 I have lived to see inherited my very wishes 295 00:32:38,950 --> 00:32:42,069 and the buildings of my fancy. 296 00:32:42,070 --> 00:32:44,709 Only there's one thing wanting, 297 00:32:44,710 --> 00:32:51,229 which I doubt not but our Rome will cast upon thee. 298 00:32:51,230 --> 00:32:55,629 Good mother, I'd rather be their servant in my way, 299 00:32:55,630 --> 00:32:57,430 than sway with them in theirs. 300 00:34:49,714 --> 00:34:51,312 Coriolanus will carry it. 301 00:34:51,313 --> 00:34:53,074 He's a worthy man. He will carry it. 302 00:34:58,714 --> 00:35:02,473 - All tongues speak of him. - On the sudden, I warrant him consul. 303 00:35:02,474 --> 00:35:05,474 Then our office may, during his power, go asleep. 304 00:35:06,635 --> 00:35:08,553 He cannot temperately transport his honors 305 00:35:08,554 --> 00:35:11,633 from where he should begin and end, but will lose those he hath won. 306 00:35:11,634 --> 00:35:14,313 I heard him swear, were he to stand for consul, 307 00:35:14,314 --> 00:35:15,793 never would he appear in the marketplace, 308 00:35:15,794 --> 00:35:18,073 nor showing, as the manner is, his wounds to the people, 309 00:35:18,074 --> 00:35:19,993 beg their stinking breaths. 310 00:35:19,994 --> 00:35:23,313 It was his word. It shall be to him then, a sure destruction. 311 00:35:23,314 --> 00:35:27,154 So it must fall out to him, or our authorities, for an end. 312 00:35:28,795 --> 00:35:30,993 We must suggest to the people 313 00:35:30,994 --> 00:35:33,515 in what hatred he still hath held them. 314 00:35:34,076 --> 00:35:35,994 Kindle their dry stubble, 315 00:35:35,995 --> 00:35:38,555 and their blaze shall darken him forever. 316 00:35:44,115 --> 00:35:46,274 It remains, as the main point of this our after-meeting, 317 00:35:46,275 --> 00:35:50,634 to gratify his noble service that hath thus stood for his country. 318 00:35:50,635 --> 00:35:53,835 Therefore, please you, most grave and reverend elders, 319 00:35:53,836 --> 00:35:57,594 to desire the present consul, and last general in our well-found successes, 320 00:35:57,595 --> 00:36:03,354 to report a little of that worthy work performed by Caius Martius Coriolanus. 321 00:36:03,355 --> 00:36:06,116 - Speak, good Cominius. - Aye. 322 00:36:09,557 --> 00:36:12,155 - Nay, keep your place. - Sit, Coriolanus. 323 00:36:12,156 --> 00:36:14,554 Never shame to hear what you have nobly done. 324 00:36:14,555 --> 00:36:17,515 Your honor's pardon. I'd rather have my wounds to heal again 325 00:36:17,516 --> 00:36:20,994 - than hear say how I got them. - Pray you, sit down. 326 00:36:20,995 --> 00:36:23,035 I'd rather have one scratch my head in the sun 327 00:36:23,036 --> 00:36:24,315 when the alarm were struck 328 00:36:24,316 --> 00:36:28,436 than idly sit to hear my nothings monstered. 329 00:36:38,077 --> 00:36:40,195 - Speak, good Cominius. - Aye, proceed. 330 00:36:40,196 --> 00:36:44,396 The deeds of Coriolanus should not be uttered feebly. 331 00:36:44,397 --> 00:36:47,836 It is held that valor is the chiefest virtue, 332 00:36:47,837 --> 00:36:49,516 and most dignifies the haver. 333 00:36:49,517 --> 00:36:52,675 If it be, the man I speak of 334 00:36:52,676 --> 00:36:55,556 cannot in the world be singly counterpoised. 335 00:36:56,358 --> 00:37:00,196 At 16 years, he fought beyond the mark of others. 336 00:37:00,197 --> 00:37:02,636 When he might act the woman in the scene, 337 00:37:02,637 --> 00:37:05,436 he proved best man in the field. 338 00:37:05,437 --> 00:37:07,757 And in the brunt of 17 battles since, 339 00:37:07,758 --> 00:37:10,516 he lurched all swords of the garland. 340 00:37:10,517 --> 00:37:13,757 For this last, before and in Corioles, 341 00:37:13,758 --> 00:37:16,877 let me say I cannot speak him home. 342 00:37:17,278 --> 00:37:20,317 He stopped the fliers, and by his rare example, 343 00:37:20,318 --> 00:37:25,196 made coward turn terror into sport, from face to foot. 344 00:37:25,197 --> 00:37:30,237 He was a thing of blood, whose every motion was timed with dying cries. 345 00:37:30,238 --> 00:37:34,077 Alone, he entered the mortal gate of the city, 346 00:37:34,078 --> 00:37:36,317 which he painted with shunless destiny. 347 00:37:36,318 --> 00:37:38,317 Aidless came off, 348 00:37:38,318 --> 00:37:40,157 and with a sudden re-enforcement 349 00:37:40,158 --> 00:37:43,959 struck Corioles like a planet. 350 00:37:44,479 --> 00:37:46,877 Until we called both field and city ours, 351 00:37:46,878 --> 00:37:50,118 he never stood to ease his breast with panting. 352 00:37:50,119 --> 00:37:55,038 Our spoils he kicked at, and looked upon things precious 353 00:37:55,039 --> 00:37:57,358 as they were the common muck of the world. 354 00:37:57,359 --> 00:38:01,198 He covets less than misery itself would give, 355 00:38:01,199 --> 00:38:03,518 rewards his deeds with doing them, 356 00:38:03,519 --> 00:38:07,799 and is content to spend the time to end it. 357 00:38:18,120 --> 00:38:21,838 The senate, Coriolanus, are well pleased to make thee consul. 358 00:38:21,839 --> 00:38:23,560 Aye. 359 00:38:27,841 --> 00:38:31,558 I do owe them still my life and services. 360 00:38:31,559 --> 00:38:34,999 It then remains that you do speak to the people. 361 00:38:37,441 --> 00:38:39,639 I do beseech you, let me overleap that custom, 362 00:38:39,640 --> 00:38:44,319 for I cannot entreat them for my wounds' sake to give their suffrage. 363 00:38:44,320 --> 00:38:46,359 Please you that I may pass this doing. 364 00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:50,599 Sir. The people must have their voices. 365 00:38:50,600 --> 00:38:52,279 Pray you, go fit you to the custom. 366 00:38:52,280 --> 00:38:54,879 It is a part that I shall blush in acting, and might well be taken 367 00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:56,559 - from the people. - Mark you that? 368 00:38:56,560 --> 00:38:58,879 To brag unto them "Thus I did, and thus." 369 00:38:58,880 --> 00:39:01,840 Show them the unaching scars which I should hide, 370 00:39:01,841 --> 00:39:04,841 as if I had received them for the hire of their breath only. 371 00:39:09,642 --> 00:39:13,081 To our noble consul wish we all joy and honor. 372 00:39:40,243 --> 00:39:44,400 The senate, Coriolanus, are well pleased to make thee consul. 373 00:39:44,401 --> 00:39:47,000 I do owe them still my life and services. 374 00:39:47,001 --> 00:39:49,361 It then remains that you do speak to the people. 375 00:39:49,362 --> 00:39:50,801 Let me overleap that custom. 376 00:39:50,802 --> 00:39:52,642 The people must have their voices. 377 00:39:52,963 --> 00:39:55,201 Have you not known the worthiest men have done it? 378 00:39:55,202 --> 00:39:56,681 Custom calls me to it. 379 00:39:56,682 --> 00:40:00,001 What custom wills, in all things should we do it. 380 00:40:00,002 --> 00:40:01,561 What must I say? 381 00:40:01,562 --> 00:40:04,402 "Look, sir, my wounds. I got them in my country's service." 382 00:40:04,403 --> 00:40:07,601 O me, the gods. You must not speak like that. 383 00:40:07,602 --> 00:40:09,121 You must desire them to think upon you. 384 00:40:09,122 --> 00:40:11,321 Think upon me? 385 00:40:11,322 --> 00:40:13,563 Hang them. I would they would forget me. 386 00:40:31,244 --> 00:40:33,282 Pray you, speak to them. 387 00:40:33,283 --> 00:40:35,762 I pray you, in wholesome manner. 388 00:40:35,763 --> 00:40:38,763 Bid them wash their faces and keep their teeth clean. 389 00:41:11,685 --> 00:41:14,043 You know the cause, sir, of my standing here? 390 00:41:14,044 --> 00:41:16,883 We do, sir. Tell us what hath brought you to it. 391 00:41:16,884 --> 00:41:19,964 - Mine own desert. - Your own desert? 392 00:41:19,965 --> 00:41:24,724 - Aye, but not mine own desire. - How not your own desire? 393 00:41:24,725 --> 00:41:28,203 No, it was never my desire yet to trouble the poor with begging. 394 00:41:28,204 --> 00:41:31,725 You must think, if we give you anything, we hope to gain by you. 395 00:41:33,526 --> 00:41:35,645 Well then, I pray, your price of the consulship? 396 00:41:36,806 --> 00:41:39,364 The price is to ask it kindly. 397 00:41:39,365 --> 00:41:42,445 Kindly, sir, I pray, let me have it. 398 00:41:43,686 --> 00:41:48,165 I have wounds to show you, which shall be yours in private. 399 00:41:49,406 --> 00:41:51,045 Your good voice, sir. What say you? 400 00:41:52,126 --> 00:41:56,884 - You shall have it, worthy sir. - A match, sir. 401 00:41:56,885 --> 00:41:59,846 There's in all two worthy voices begged. Adieu. 402 00:42:01,767 --> 00:42:03,085 But this is something odd. 403 00:42:05,487 --> 00:42:08,004 Pray you now, if it may stand with the tune of your voice 404 00:42:08,005 --> 00:42:10,204 that I may be consul. 405 00:42:10,205 --> 00:42:13,605 You have deserved nobly of your country, and you have not deserved nobly. 406 00:42:14,687 --> 00:42:16,125 Your enigma? 407 00:42:16,126 --> 00:42:20,045 You have been a scourge to her enemies, you have been a rod to her friends. 408 00:42:20,046 --> 00:42:22,406 You have not indeed loved the common people. 409 00:42:23,207 --> 00:42:26,845 You should account me the more virtuous that I have not been common in my love. 410 00:42:26,846 --> 00:42:28,965 We hope to find you our friend, 411 00:42:28,966 --> 00:42:31,166 and therefore give you our voices heartily. 412 00:42:31,688 --> 00:42:34,126 I will make much of your voices, and so trouble you no further. 413 00:42:34,127 --> 00:42:37,206 Gods give you joy, sir, heartily. 414 00:42:54,568 --> 00:42:55,727 Your voices. 415 00:42:58,168 --> 00:43:01,487 For your voices I have fought. 416 00:43:03,528 --> 00:43:06,327 Watched for your voices. 417 00:43:08,169 --> 00:43:11,568 For your voices bear of wounds two dozen odd. 418 00:43:13,568 --> 00:43:17,687 Battles thrice six I have seen and heard of. 419 00:43:18,888 --> 00:43:24,088 For your voices have done many things, some less, some more. 420 00:43:26,049 --> 00:43:28,128 Your voices. 421 00:43:29,929 --> 00:43:34,568 Indeed, I would be consul. 422 00:43:39,450 --> 00:43:44,727 He has done nobly, and cannot go without any honest man's voice. 423 00:43:44,728 --> 00:43:47,328 - Aye. - Aye. 424 00:43:47,770 --> 00:43:51,088 Therefore, let him be consul. 425 00:43:51,089 --> 00:43:53,928 - Amen. - Amen. 426 00:43:53,929 --> 00:43:55,127 Amen. 427 00:44:01,689 --> 00:44:03,009 Amen. 428 00:44:08,010 --> 00:44:09,209 Amen. 429 00:44:11,570 --> 00:44:13,768 Worthy voices. 430 00:44:13,769 --> 00:44:16,289 Worthy voices, worthy voices. 431 00:44:23,611 --> 00:44:25,530 You have stood your limitation. 432 00:44:26,491 --> 00:44:30,049 And the tribunes now endow you with the people's voice. 433 00:44:30,050 --> 00:44:31,728 Is this done? 434 00:44:31,729 --> 00:44:34,409 The custom of request you have discharged. 435 00:44:34,410 --> 00:44:36,049 The people do admit you, 436 00:44:36,050 --> 00:44:38,529 and are summoned to meet anon upon your approbation. 437 00:44:38,530 --> 00:44:40,488 - Where? At the senate? - There, Coriolanus. 438 00:44:40,489 --> 00:44:43,410 - May I change these garments? - You may, sir. 439 00:44:47,612 --> 00:44:50,169 I will keep you company. Will you along? 440 00:44:50,170 --> 00:44:52,690 We stay here for the people. 441 00:44:54,131 --> 00:44:56,290 God save thee, noble consul. 442 00:44:58,172 --> 00:45:02,490 Consul. Consul. Consul. Consul. Consul. Consul. 443 00:45:06,932 --> 00:45:08,450 How now, my masters. 444 00:45:08,451 --> 00:45:11,130 Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, hey, whoa, whoa, whoa. 445 00:45:11,131 --> 00:45:16,890 Whoa, my masters. My masters. My masters, how now. 446 00:45:16,891 --> 00:45:20,610 - Have you chose this man? - Aye. 447 00:45:20,611 --> 00:45:22,250 He has our voices, sir. 448 00:45:22,251 --> 00:45:24,650 We pray the gods he may deserve your loves. 449 00:45:24,651 --> 00:45:25,930 Amen, sir. 450 00:45:25,931 --> 00:45:30,570 To my poor, unworthy notice, he mocked us when he begged our voices. 451 00:45:30,571 --> 00:45:32,971 - He mocked us. - Flouted us downright. 452 00:45:32,972 --> 00:45:36,651 O, no, no, no, it is his kind of speech. 453 00:45:36,652 --> 00:45:38,530 - Aye. - He did not mock us. 454 00:45:38,531 --> 00:45:40,931 He should have showed us his marks of merit, 455 00:45:40,932 --> 00:45:43,811 - wounds received for his country. - Yes. 456 00:45:43,812 --> 00:45:46,771 - Why, I am sure, so he did. - No, he didn't. 457 00:45:46,772 --> 00:45:50,892 No, no, no. No. No. No one saw them. 458 00:45:56,573 --> 00:45:57,932 Was this mockery? 459 00:45:58,853 --> 00:46:00,412 Yes. 460 00:46:05,533 --> 00:46:09,251 When he had no power, but was a petty servant to the state, he was your enemy. 461 00:46:09,252 --> 00:46:12,931 Ever spake against your liberties. 462 00:46:12,932 --> 00:46:16,052 Did you perceive he did solicit you in free contempt 463 00:46:16,053 --> 00:46:20,331 when he did need your loves, and do you think that his contempt 464 00:46:20,332 --> 00:46:23,252 shall not be bruising to you when he hath power to crush? 465 00:46:23,253 --> 00:46:24,212 Aye. 466 00:46:26,134 --> 00:46:28,772 It is not confirmed. 467 00:46:28,773 --> 00:46:32,172 It is not confirmed. We may deny him yet. 468 00:46:32,173 --> 00:46:34,772 And will deny him. 469 00:46:34,773 --> 00:46:37,892 I will have 500 voices of that sound. 470 00:46:37,893 --> 00:46:42,052 - Yes. - I twice 500 and their friends. 471 00:46:42,053 --> 00:46:43,012 Yes. 472 00:46:44,735 --> 00:46:46,732 Get you hence instantly and tell those friends 473 00:46:46,733 --> 00:46:49,972 they have chose a consul that will from them take their liberties. 474 00:46:49,973 --> 00:46:52,172 Let them assemble, and on a safer judgment, 475 00:46:52,173 --> 00:46:54,013 all revoke your ignorant election. 476 00:46:54,014 --> 00:46:56,733 Enforce his pride, and his old hate unto you. 477 00:46:56,734 --> 00:47:00,294 And, presently, when you have drawn the number, repair to the senate. 478 00:47:06,175 --> 00:47:08,333 Tullus Aufidius then has assembled a new army? 479 00:47:08,334 --> 00:47:09,413 He has, my lord. 480 00:47:09,414 --> 00:47:11,614 - Saw you Aufidius? - He's retired to Antium. 481 00:47:11,615 --> 00:47:14,413 - Spoke he of me? - He did, my lord. 482 00:47:14,414 --> 00:47:15,893 How? What? 483 00:47:15,894 --> 00:47:18,253 How often he had met you, sword to sword. 484 00:47:18,254 --> 00:47:21,533 That of all things upon the earth, he hated your person most. 485 00:47:21,534 --> 00:47:24,494 - At Antium lives he? - At Antium. 486 00:47:24,495 --> 00:47:27,734 I wish I had a cause to seek him there, to oppose his hatred fully. 487 00:47:27,735 --> 00:47:30,574 Come, Rome must know the value of her own. 488 00:47:40,456 --> 00:47:42,254 Behold, these are the tribunes of the people, 489 00:47:42,255 --> 00:47:43,975 the tongues of the common mouth. 490 00:47:45,016 --> 00:47:46,494 - Pass no further. - Ah? What is that? 491 00:47:46,495 --> 00:47:48,414 It will be dangerous to go on. No further. 492 00:47:48,415 --> 00:47:50,254 - What makes this change? - The matter? 493 00:47:50,255 --> 00:47:52,974 Hath he not passed the nobles and the commons? 494 00:47:52,975 --> 00:47:55,335 - Cominius, no. - Have I had children's voices? 495 00:47:55,336 --> 00:47:58,134 - Tribunes, give away. - The people are incensed against him. 496 00:47:58,135 --> 00:48:01,454 - Are these your herd? - Be calm, be calm. 497 00:48:01,455 --> 00:48:05,014 The people cry you mocked them, and of late called them time-pleasers, 498 00:48:05,015 --> 00:48:07,935 - flatterers, foes to nobleness. - Why, this was known before. 499 00:48:07,936 --> 00:48:10,215 You show too much of that for which the people stir. 500 00:48:10,216 --> 00:48:11,615 If you will pass to where you are bound, 501 00:48:11,616 --> 00:48:13,695 you must inquire your way with a gentler spirit. 502 00:48:13,696 --> 00:48:17,215 - Let's be calm. - The people are abused, set on. 503 00:48:17,216 --> 00:48:18,895 This was my speech, and I will speak it again. 504 00:48:18,896 --> 00:48:22,575 - Not now, not now. - Not in this heat, sir. 505 00:48:22,576 --> 00:48:25,495 My nobler friends, I crave their pardons. 506 00:48:25,496 --> 00:48:29,496 For the mutable, rank-scented many, let them regard me as I do not flatter, 507 00:48:29,497 --> 00:48:31,335 and therein behold themselves. 508 00:48:31,336 --> 00:48:35,855 I say again, in soothing them, we nourish against our senate 509 00:48:35,856 --> 00:48:38,696 the cockle of rebellion, insolence, sedition, 510 00:48:38,697 --> 00:48:41,856 which we ourselves have ploughed for, sowed, and scattered 511 00:48:41,857 --> 00:48:43,856 by mingling them with us, 512 00:48:43,857 --> 00:48:46,696 the honored number who lack not virtue, no, nor power, 513 00:48:46,697 --> 00:48:48,256 but that which we have given to beggars. 514 00:48:48,257 --> 00:48:50,896 - Well, no more. - No more words, we beseech you. 515 00:48:50,897 --> 00:48:53,655 You speak of the people as if you were a god to punish, 516 00:48:53,656 --> 00:48:55,176 not a man of their infirmity. 517 00:48:55,177 --> 00:48:56,496 It were well we let the people know it. 518 00:48:56,497 --> 00:48:59,256 Were I as patient as the midnight sleep, by Jove, it would be my mind. 519 00:48:59,257 --> 00:49:03,097 It is a mind that shall remain a poison where it is, not poison any further. 520 00:49:03,098 --> 00:49:05,977 Shall remain. Hear you this Triton of the minnows? 521 00:49:05,978 --> 00:49:08,256 Mark you his absolute "shall"? 522 00:49:08,257 --> 00:49:10,256 Why should the people give one that speaks thus their voice? 523 00:49:10,257 --> 00:49:14,257 I will give my reasons, more worthier than their voices. 524 00:49:15,859 --> 00:49:20,136 By Jove himself, it makes the consuls base, 525 00:49:20,137 --> 00:49:22,657 and my soul aches to know, 526 00:49:22,658 --> 00:49:26,377 when two authorities are up, neither supreme, 527 00:49:26,378 --> 00:49:29,257 how soon confusion may enter twixt the gap of both 528 00:49:29,258 --> 00:49:30,897 and take the one by the other. 529 00:49:30,898 --> 00:49:33,657 Thus we debase the nature of our seats 530 00:49:33,658 --> 00:49:37,377 and make the rabble call our cares fears, which will, in time, 531 00:49:37,378 --> 00:49:39,257 break open the locks of the senate, 532 00:49:39,258 --> 00:49:41,657 and bring in the crows to peck the eagles. 533 00:49:41,658 --> 00:49:44,098 - Come, enough. - Enough, with over-measure. 534 00:49:44,099 --> 00:49:47,378 He has spoken like a traitor, and shall answer as traitors do. 535 00:49:47,379 --> 00:49:49,698 Thou wretch, despite overwhelm thee. 536 00:49:49,699 --> 00:49:52,618 - Manifest treason. - This is a consul? No. 537 00:49:52,619 --> 00:49:54,297 Seize him. 538 00:49:54,298 --> 00:49:56,778 Hence, old goat. 539 00:50:01,419 --> 00:50:03,379 On both sides more respect. 540 00:50:08,140 --> 00:50:09,618 Shh. Shh. 541 00:50:09,619 --> 00:50:14,218 Here's he that would take from you all your power. 542 00:50:14,219 --> 00:50:18,099 You are at point to lose your liberties. 543 00:50:18,100 --> 00:50:20,859 Martius would have all from you, 544 00:50:20,860 --> 00:50:24,499 Martius, whom late you have named for consul. 545 00:50:27,380 --> 00:50:31,099 - What is the city but the people? - True. 546 00:50:31,100 --> 00:50:35,740 The people are the city. The people are the city. 547 00:50:41,141 --> 00:50:44,059 We do here pronounce, upon the part of the people, 548 00:50:44,060 --> 00:50:47,300 Martius is worthy of present death. 549 00:50:49,981 --> 00:50:50,671 Death. 550 00:50:52,501 --> 00:50:57,100 - Guards, seize him. - No, I will die here. 551 00:51:01,742 --> 00:51:04,740 Get you to your house. Be gone, away. 552 00:51:04,741 --> 00:51:08,381 - All will be naught else. - Come, sir, along with us. 553 00:52:12,383 --> 00:52:16,902 As I do know the consul's worthiness, so can I name his faults. 554 00:52:16,903 --> 00:52:18,742 Consul? What consul? 555 00:52:18,743 --> 00:52:21,581 - The Consul Coriolanus. - He, consul? 556 00:52:21,582 --> 00:52:24,262 It is decreed he dies tonight. 557 00:52:24,263 --> 00:52:26,502 He's a disease that must be cut away. 558 00:52:26,503 --> 00:52:29,463 O, he's a limb that hath but a disease. 559 00:52:30,784 --> 00:52:33,583 Mortal, to cut it off, to cure it, easy. 560 00:52:35,984 --> 00:52:38,024 What has he done to Rome that's worth his death, eh? 561 00:52:41,064 --> 00:52:42,903 Killing our enemies? 562 00:52:46,785 --> 00:52:50,183 The blood he hath lost, he dropped it for his country. 563 00:52:50,184 --> 00:52:52,343 - This is clean kam. - We will hear no more... 564 00:52:52,344 --> 00:52:54,863 Consider this: 565 00:52:54,864 --> 00:52:58,823 He's been bred in the wars since he could draw a sword, 566 00:52:58,824 --> 00:53:01,384 and is ill-schooled in graceful language. 567 00:53:03,185 --> 00:53:06,703 Give me leave. I will go to him and undertake to bring him 568 00:53:06,704 --> 00:53:11,503 where he shall answer by a lawful form, in peace, 569 00:53:11,504 --> 00:53:12,783 to his utmost peril. 570 00:53:12,784 --> 00:53:15,623 Noble tribunes, it is the humane way. 571 00:53:15,624 --> 00:53:18,664 - Menenius... - Be you then as the people's officer. 572 00:53:20,425 --> 00:53:24,865 If you bring not Martius, we will proceed in our first way. 573 00:53:27,425 --> 00:53:29,344 I will bring him to you. 574 00:53:31,706 --> 00:53:34,024 Let them pull all about mine ears, 575 00:53:34,025 --> 00:53:36,863 present me death on the wheel or at wild horses' heels, 576 00:53:36,864 --> 00:53:39,064 - yet will I still be thus to them. - Martius... 577 00:53:39,065 --> 00:53:42,064 I muse my mother does not approve me further. 578 00:53:42,065 --> 00:53:45,265 I talk of you. Why would you wish me milder? 579 00:53:45,866 --> 00:53:47,945 Would you have me false to my nature? 580 00:53:49,106 --> 00:53:52,145 Rather say I play the man I am. 581 00:53:58,466 --> 00:54:03,344 Sir, sir, I would have had you put your power well on 582 00:54:03,345 --> 00:54:05,264 before you had worn it out. 583 00:54:05,265 --> 00:54:06,865 - Let go. - You might have been enough 584 00:54:06,866 --> 00:54:09,665 the man you are, with striving less to be so. 585 00:54:10,626 --> 00:54:12,585 - Let them hang. - Aye, and burn, too. 586 00:54:12,586 --> 00:54:14,865 Come, come, you have been too rough, something too rough. 587 00:54:14,866 --> 00:54:16,705 You must return and mend it. 588 00:54:16,706 --> 00:54:19,745 There's no remedy, unless, by not so doing, our good city 589 00:54:19,746 --> 00:54:21,986 cleave in the midst and perish. 590 00:54:22,427 --> 00:54:25,505 Pray, be counseled. 591 00:54:25,506 --> 00:54:28,905 I have a heart as little apt as yours, 592 00:54:28,906 --> 00:54:33,746 but yet a brain that leads my use of anger to better vantage. 593 00:54:33,747 --> 00:54:35,786 - Well said, noble woman. - And what must I do? 594 00:54:35,787 --> 00:54:38,026 - Return to the tribunes. - What then? What then? 595 00:54:38,027 --> 00:54:41,586 - Repent what you have spoke. - For them? I cannot do it to the gods. 596 00:54:41,587 --> 00:54:43,067 Must I then do it to them? 597 00:54:47,028 --> 00:54:49,427 You are too absolute. 598 00:54:52,188 --> 00:54:56,106 I have heard you say that honor and policy, 599 00:54:56,107 --> 00:54:58,506 like unsevered friends in war, do grow together. 600 00:54:58,507 --> 00:55:00,946 Why force you this? 601 00:55:00,947 --> 00:55:04,946 Because that now it lies you on to speak to the people, 602 00:55:04,947 --> 00:55:07,146 not by your own instruction, 603 00:55:07,147 --> 00:55:09,586 nor by the matter your heart prompts you, 604 00:55:09,587 --> 00:55:13,667 but with such words that are but roted in your tongue, 605 00:55:13,668 --> 00:55:19,067 though but bastards and syllables of no allowance to your bosom's truth. 606 00:55:20,909 --> 00:55:23,747 I would dissemble with my nature where my fortune 607 00:55:23,748 --> 00:55:29,067 and my friends at stake required I should do so in honor. 608 00:55:29,068 --> 00:55:34,507 I am, in this, your wife, your son, the senators, 609 00:55:34,508 --> 00:55:38,249 nobles........ and you. 610 00:55:41,709 --> 00:55:47,307 I prithee now, my son, go to them, be with them, 611 00:55:47,308 --> 00:55:52,989 say to them thou art their soldier. 612 00:55:53,909 --> 00:55:55,428 And being bred in broils 613 00:55:55,429 --> 00:56:00,188 has not the soft way in asking their good loves. 614 00:56:00,670 --> 00:56:05,388 But thou wilt frame thyself, 615 00:56:05,389 --> 00:56:07,829 forsooth, hereafter theirs. 616 00:56:08,670 --> 00:56:14,308 This but done, even as she speaks, why their hearts were yours. 617 00:56:14,309 --> 00:56:16,589 I prithee, go and be ruled. 618 00:56:18,070 --> 00:56:21,549 Sir, it is fit you make strong party, 619 00:56:21,550 --> 00:56:24,188 or defend yourself by calmness or by absence. 620 00:56:24,189 --> 00:56:27,309 - All's in anger. - Only fair speech. 621 00:56:27,310 --> 00:56:30,349 I think it will serve if he can thereto frame his spirit. 622 00:56:30,350 --> 00:56:31,271 He must. 623 00:56:34,750 --> 00:56:36,629 He will. 624 00:56:36,630 --> 00:56:39,829 Prithee now, say you will, and go about it. 625 00:56:39,830 --> 00:56:43,790 Must I, with base tongue, give my noble heart 626 00:56:43,791 --> 00:56:46,509 a lie that it must bear? 627 00:56:46,510 --> 00:56:50,150 Well, I will do it. 628 00:56:50,951 --> 00:56:56,549 Away, my disposition, and possess me some harlot's spirit. 629 00:56:56,550 --> 00:57:00,710 A beggar's tongue make motion through my lips. 630 00:57:02,591 --> 00:57:03,950 I will not do it. 631 00:57:03,951 --> 00:57:06,830 Lest I cease to honor mine own truth, 632 00:57:06,831 --> 00:57:10,311 and by my body's action teach my mind a most inherent baseness. 633 00:57:11,192 --> 00:57:13,110 At thy choice, then. 634 00:57:13,111 --> 00:57:15,790 To beg of thee is more my dishonor than thou of them. 635 00:57:15,791 --> 00:57:17,391 Come all to ruin. 636 00:57:18,792 --> 00:57:22,230 Let thy mother rather feel thy pride than fear 637 00:57:22,231 --> 00:57:25,430 thy dangerous stoutness, for I mock at death 638 00:57:25,431 --> 00:57:29,751 with as big heart as thou. Do as you like. 639 00:57:38,073 --> 00:57:42,630 Thy valiantness was mine, thou suck'st it from me, 640 00:57:42,631 --> 00:57:44,911 but owe thy pride thyself. 641 00:57:44,912 --> 00:57:47,991 Pray, be content, Mother, I am going. 642 00:57:48,993 --> 00:57:54,232 Chide me no more. Look, I am going. 643 00:57:57,714 --> 00:58:01,272 I will return consul, or never trust to what my tongue can do 644 00:58:01,273 --> 00:58:05,312 - in the way of flattery further. - Do your will. 645 00:58:05,410 --> 00:58:09,232 In this point, charge him home: that he affects tyrannical power. 646 00:58:09,233 --> 00:58:12,912 If he evade us there, enforce him with his hatred to the people. 647 00:58:12,913 --> 00:58:14,512 Have you a catalog of all the voices 648 00:58:14,513 --> 00:58:16,231 that we have procured set down by the poll? 649 00:58:16,232 --> 00:58:18,072 I have. It's ready. 650 00:58:18,073 --> 00:58:19,312 When the people hear me say 651 00:58:19,313 --> 00:58:21,232 "It shall be so in the right and strength of the commons," 652 00:58:21,233 --> 00:58:23,432 be it either for death, for fine, or banishment, 653 00:58:23,433 --> 00:58:26,152 then, let them, if they hear me say "Fine," cry "Fine." 654 00:58:26,153 --> 00:58:28,553 - If "Death," cry "Death." - We shall inform them. 655 00:58:30,554 --> 00:58:33,353 God preserve thee. 656 00:59:03,235 --> 00:59:05,673 The people are the city. 657 00:59:05,674 --> 00:59:07,913 Put not your worthy rage into your tongue. 658 00:59:07,914 --> 00:59:09,954 Calmly, I beseech you. 659 00:59:31,196 --> 00:59:32,875 The honored gods... 660 00:59:44,036 --> 00:59:46,354 The honored gods keep Rome in safety, 661 00:59:46,355 --> 00:59:49,994 and the chairs of justice supplied with worthy men, 662 00:59:49,995 --> 00:59:53,234 plant love among us, 663 00:59:53,235 --> 00:59:55,954 throng our large temples with the shows of peace, 664 00:59:55,955 --> 00:59:57,994 and not our streets with war. 665 00:59:57,995 --> 01:00:00,555 - Amen, amen. - A noble wish. 666 01:00:00,556 --> 01:00:03,914 Shall I be charged no further than this present? 667 01:00:03,915 --> 01:00:05,795 Must all determine here? 668 01:00:05,796 --> 01:00:09,675 I do demand, if you submit you to the people's voices. 669 01:00:09,676 --> 01:00:11,315 Aye. 670 01:00:11,316 --> 01:00:15,596 - I am content. - Lo, citizens, he says he is content. 671 01:00:16,037 --> 01:00:20,355 The warlike service he has done, consider. 672 01:00:20,356 --> 01:00:22,275 Think upon the wounds his body bears, 673 01:00:22,276 --> 01:00:25,075 which show like graves in the holy churchyard. 674 01:00:25,076 --> 01:00:27,997 Scratches with briers, scars to move laughter only. 675 01:00:28,997 --> 01:00:32,116 Consider further, that when he speaks not like a citizen, 676 01:00:32,117 --> 01:00:34,556 you find him like a soldier. 677 01:00:34,557 --> 01:00:38,635 Do not take his rougher accents for malicious sounds, but, as I say, 678 01:00:38,636 --> 01:00:42,196 such as become a soldier. 679 01:00:42,197 --> 01:00:46,636 What is the matter that being passed for consul with full voice, 680 01:00:46,637 --> 01:00:50,396 I am so dishonored that the very hour you take it off again? 681 01:00:50,397 --> 01:00:54,276 We charge you that you have contrived to take from Rome all seasoned office, 682 01:00:54,277 --> 01:00:57,357 and to wind yourself into a power tyrannical, 683 01:00:57,358 --> 01:00:58,716 for which you are a traitor to the people. How... traitor? 684 01:00:58,717 --> 01:01:00,196 for which you are a traitor to the people. How... traitor? 685 01:01:00,197 --> 01:01:02,356 - Traitor. - Nay, temperately. Your promise. 686 01:01:02,357 --> 01:01:04,917 The fires in the lowest hell fold in the people. 687 01:01:04,918 --> 01:01:07,716 Call me their traitor, thou injurious tribune? 688 01:01:07,717 --> 01:01:09,957 - Mark you this, people? - Yes. 689 01:01:09,958 --> 01:01:11,556 Traitor. 690 01:01:11,557 --> 01:01:15,477 But since he hath served well for Rome... 691 01:01:15,478 --> 01:01:17,077 What do you prate of service? 692 01:01:17,078 --> 01:01:19,357 - I talk of that, that know it. - You? 693 01:01:19,358 --> 01:01:21,077 Is this the promise you made your mother? 694 01:01:21,078 --> 01:01:25,037 I will know no further. Let them pronounce death, exile, flaying, 695 01:01:25,038 --> 01:01:28,677 I would not buy their mercy at the price of one fair word. 696 01:01:28,678 --> 01:01:31,837 In the name of the people, and in the power of us, the tribunes, 697 01:01:31,838 --> 01:01:34,997 we, even from this instant, banish him our city. 698 01:01:34,998 --> 01:01:39,157 In the people's name, I say... it shall be so. 699 01:01:39,158 --> 01:01:44,518 - It shall be so. - He's banished. It shall be so. 700 01:01:44,519 --> 01:01:48,078 It shall be so. 701 01:01:48,079 --> 01:01:51,717 - It shall be so. - Hear me, my masters, 702 01:01:51,718 --> 01:01:52,998 and my common friends... 703 01:01:52,999 --> 01:01:55,677 - He's sentenced. No more hearing. - Let me speak. 704 01:01:55,678 --> 01:01:58,277 - It shall be so. - I have been consul 705 01:01:58,278 --> 01:02:01,918 and can show for Rome her enemies' marks upon me... 706 01:02:01,919 --> 01:02:05,478 There is no more to be said, but he is banished as enemy 707 01:02:05,479 --> 01:02:07,598 - to the people and his country. - It shall be so. 708 01:02:07,599 --> 01:02:10,319 - It shall be so. - It shall be so. 709 01:02:10,320 --> 01:02:13,278 It shall be so. It shall be so. 710 01:02:13,279 --> 01:02:15,758 It shall be so. It shall be so. 711 01:02:15,759 --> 01:02:18,240 - It shall be so. - It shall be so. 712 01:02:20,640 --> 01:02:22,958 It shall be so. It shall be so. 713 01:02:22,959 --> 01:02:32,199 It shall be so. It shall be so. It shall be so. It shall be so. 714 01:02:32,200 --> 01:02:37,906 You... common... cry... of... curs. 715 01:02:38,121 --> 01:02:43,719 Whose breath I hate as reeks of the rotten fens, 716 01:02:43,720 --> 01:02:48,119 whose loves I prize as the dead carcasses 717 01:02:48,120 --> 01:02:52,519 of unburied men that do corrupt my air. 718 01:02:52,520 --> 01:02:55,759 I... banish... you. 719 01:02:55,760 --> 01:03:01,081 And here remain with your uncertainty. 720 01:03:02,402 --> 01:03:05,639 Let every feeble rumor shake your hearts. 721 01:03:05,640 --> 01:03:08,520 Your enemies, with nodding of their caps, 722 01:03:08,521 --> 01:03:11,440 fan you into despair. 723 01:03:11,441 --> 01:03:16,840 Have the power still to banish your defenders, till at length 724 01:03:16,841 --> 01:03:24,121 your ignorance, which finds not till it feels, making but reservation of yourselves, 725 01:03:24,122 --> 01:03:28,361 still your own foes deliver you 726 01:03:28,362 --> 01:03:31,960 as most abated captives to some nation 727 01:03:31,961 --> 01:03:35,681 that won you without blows. 728 01:03:39,242 --> 01:03:45,002 Despising, for you, the city... 729 01:03:46,283 --> 01:03:47,962 ...thus... 730 01:03:49,283 --> 01:03:51,042 ...I turn my back. 731 01:03:52,923 --> 01:03:58,002 There is a world... elsewhere. 732 01:04:07,363 --> 01:04:11,042 The people's enemy is gone. 733 01:04:26,922 --> 01:04:28,121 Whoo. 734 01:05:39,126 --> 01:05:43,004 Nay, Mother, where is your ancient courage? 735 01:05:43,005 --> 01:05:47,084 You are too absolute. 736 01:05:47,085 --> 01:05:50,885 Nay, Mother, I shall be loved when I am lacked. 737 01:05:52,046 --> 01:05:56,166 I go alone, like to a lonely dragon. 738 01:07:07,048 --> 01:07:09,927 - The gods preserve you both. - Good day to you all. 739 01:07:09,928 --> 01:07:11,406 The gods keep you. 740 01:07:11,407 --> 01:07:13,207 This is a happier and more comely time. 741 01:07:13,208 --> 01:07:15,808 - Yeah. - Good day. Good day. 742 01:07:19,169 --> 01:07:20,767 - O, here comes his mother. - Let's not meet her. 743 01:07:20,768 --> 01:07:24,808 - They say she's mad. - O, you're well met. 744 01:07:26,129 --> 01:07:29,448 The hoarded plague of the gods requite thy love. 745 01:07:30,529 --> 01:07:32,847 - Will you be gone? - You shall stay, too. 746 01:07:32,848 --> 01:07:35,368 I would I had the power to say so to my husband. 747 01:07:35,369 --> 01:07:38,567 - Are you mad? - Aye, fool, is that a shame? 748 01:07:38,568 --> 01:07:43,128 I tell thee what, fool, hadst thou craft to banish him 749 01:07:43,129 --> 01:07:46,767 that struck more blows for Rome than thou hast spoken words? 750 01:07:46,768 --> 01:07:48,287 Blessed heavens... 751 01:07:48,288 --> 01:07:52,448 More noble blows than ever thou wise words, 752 01:07:52,449 --> 01:07:56,728 and for Rome's good. Yet go. 753 01:07:56,729 --> 01:08:00,408 Nay, thou shalt stay, too. 754 01:08:00,409 --> 01:08:02,288 I tell thee what. 755 01:08:02,289 --> 01:08:07,248 I would my son were in Arabia, and thy tribe before him, 756 01:08:07,249 --> 01:08:10,008 - his good sword in his hand. - What then? 757 01:08:10,009 --> 01:08:13,609 What then? He'd make an end of thy posterity. 758 01:08:13,610 --> 01:08:16,848 - Bastards and all. - Come. Come, peace. 759 01:08:16,849 --> 01:08:18,328 Well, well, we will leave you. 760 01:08:18,329 --> 01:08:22,410 Why stay we to be baited by one who wants her wits? 761 01:08:25,651 --> 01:08:29,449 I would the gods had nothing else to do 762 01:08:29,450 --> 01:08:33,290 but to confirm my curses. 763 01:08:38,251 --> 01:08:41,289 Could I meet them but once a day, 764 01:08:41,290 --> 01:08:45,650 it would unclog my heart of what lies heavy to it. 765 01:08:46,692 --> 01:08:50,290 You have told them home. And, by my troth, you have cause. 766 01:08:51,651 --> 01:08:54,129 You will sup with me? 767 01:08:54,130 --> 01:08:56,371 Anger's my meat. 768 01:08:57,851 --> 01:09:00,091 I sup upon myself... 769 01:09:01,572 --> 01:09:04,211 ...and so shall starve with feeding. 770 01:09:07,732 --> 01:09:10,530 - Come. - Come, madam. 771 01:11:21,175 --> 01:11:22,895 Hey. 772 01:11:35,456 --> 01:11:37,415 Aufidius. 773 01:11:41,736 --> 01:11:43,255 Ah, general. 774 01:11:49,016 --> 01:11:49,975 Yes. 775 01:11:55,736 --> 01:11:56,695 Well, well. 776 01:12:44,018 --> 01:12:46,577 Hey, hey. 777 01:13:06,139 --> 01:13:07,778 Whence comes thou? 778 01:13:13,299 --> 01:13:15,018 Thy name? 779 01:13:16,218 --> 01:13:20,217 Speak, man. What's thy name? 780 01:13:20,218 --> 01:13:23,177 A name unmusical to the Volscians' ears, 781 01:13:23,178 --> 01:13:25,137 and harsh in sound to thine. 782 01:13:25,138 --> 01:13:29,298 Say... what's thy name? 783 01:13:31,459 --> 01:13:33,739 Thou has a grim appearance. 784 01:13:35,539 --> 01:13:36,498 What's thy name? 785 01:13:39,139 --> 01:13:42,538 - Know'st thou me yet? - I know thee not. 786 01:13:44,579 --> 01:13:45,857 Thy name? 787 01:13:45,858 --> 01:13:50,019 My name is Caius Martius... 788 01:13:51,739 --> 01:13:54,658 ...who hath done to thee, particularly, 789 01:13:54,659 --> 01:13:59,578 and to all the Volsces great hurt and mischief. 790 01:13:59,579 --> 01:14:02,339 Thereto witness may my surname... 791 01:14:04,020 --> 01:14:05,219 ...Coriolanus. 792 01:14:07,741 --> 01:14:10,339 Only that name remains. 793 01:14:10,340 --> 01:14:13,138 The cruelty and envy of the people 794 01:14:13,139 --> 01:14:16,698 who have all forsook me hath devoured the rest, 795 01:14:16,699 --> 01:14:21,420 and suffered me by the voice of slaves to be whooped out of Rome. 796 01:14:22,221 --> 01:14:25,178 Now this extremity hath brought me to thy hearth, 797 01:14:25,179 --> 01:14:28,539 not out of hope, mistake me not, to save my life, 798 01:14:28,540 --> 01:14:31,939 for if I had feared death, of all men in the world 799 01:14:31,940 --> 01:14:34,099 I would have avoided thee. 800 01:14:34,100 --> 01:14:38,619 But, in mere spite, to be full quit of those, my banishers, 801 01:14:38,620 --> 01:14:41,380 stand I before thee here. 802 01:14:42,901 --> 01:14:46,219 I will fight against my cankered country 803 01:14:46,220 --> 01:14:49,141 with the spleen of all the under fiends. 804 01:14:51,101 --> 01:14:54,740 But if thou dares not this, 805 01:14:54,741 --> 01:14:58,740 then I present my throat to thee and to thy ancient malice, 806 01:14:58,741 --> 01:15:02,899 which not to cut would show thee but a fool, 807 01:15:02,900 --> 01:15:05,860 since I have ever followed thee with hate, 808 01:15:05,861 --> 01:15:09,700 and cannot live but to thy shame 809 01:15:09,701 --> 01:15:12,901 unless it be to do thee service. 810 01:15:34,703 --> 01:15:36,742 O Martius... 811 01:15:37,383 --> 01:15:39,142 Martius... 812 01:15:40,622 --> 01:15:43,101 Each word thou hast spoke 813 01:15:43,102 --> 01:15:47,342 hath weeded from my heart a root of ancient envy. 814 01:15:53,023 --> 01:15:57,822 Let me twine mine arms about that body. 815 01:16:05,863 --> 01:16:07,183 Know thou... 816 01:16:08,544 --> 01:16:13,143 ...I loved the maid I married, never man sighed truer breath. 817 01:16:13,943 --> 01:16:19,703 But that I see thee here, thou noble thing... 818 01:16:21,224 --> 01:16:24,822 ...more dances my rapt heart 819 01:16:24,823 --> 01:16:26,982 than when I first my wedded mistress saw 820 01:16:26,983 --> 01:16:28,623 bestride my threshold. 821 01:16:31,104 --> 01:16:36,222 Why, thou Mars, I tell thee, thou hast beat me out 12 several times, 822 01:16:36,223 --> 01:16:42,103 and I have nightly since dreamt of encounters 'twixt thyself and me. 823 01:16:45,025 --> 01:16:49,223 Worthy Martius, had we no quarrel else to Rome, 824 01:16:49,224 --> 01:16:53,702 but that thou art thence banished, we would muster all from 12 to 70, 825 01:16:53,703 --> 01:16:56,383 and, pouring war into the bowels of ungrateful Rome, 826 01:16:56,384 --> 01:16:59,344 like a bold flood, overbear it. 827 01:17:47,626 --> 01:17:52,425 Come, go in, and take our friendly senators by the hands. 828 01:17:53,707 --> 01:17:56,145 You bless me, gods. 829 01:18:22,027 --> 01:18:25,466 Therefore, most absolute sir... 830 01:18:26,908 --> 01:18:29,666 ...if thou wilt have the leading of thine own revenges, 831 01:18:29,667 --> 01:18:32,466 take the one half of my commission. 832 01:18:33,827 --> 01:18:38,586 And set down as best thou art experienced, 833 01:18:38,587 --> 01:18:41,505 since thou knows thy country's strength and weakness, 834 01:18:41,506 --> 01:18:45,546 thine own ways, whether to knock against the gates of Rome, 835 01:18:45,547 --> 01:18:50,787 or rudely visit them in parts remote to fright them, ere destroy. 836 01:19:05,428 --> 01:19:08,027 - Is this Menenius? - O, it is he, it is he. 837 01:19:08,028 --> 01:19:09,786 O, he's grown most kind of late. 838 01:19:09,787 --> 01:19:12,386 - Hail, sir. - Hail to you both. 839 01:19:12,387 --> 01:19:15,187 Your Coriolanus is not much missed, but with his friends. 840 01:19:15,188 --> 01:19:18,307 All's well, and might have been much better 841 01:19:18,308 --> 01:19:21,747 - if he could have temporized. - Where is he, hear you? 842 01:19:21,748 --> 01:19:23,387 I hear nothing. 843 01:19:23,388 --> 01:19:25,587 His mother and his wife hear nothing from him. 844 01:19:25,588 --> 01:19:27,947 Caius Martius was a worthy officer in the war, 845 01:19:27,948 --> 01:19:30,387 but insolent, overcome with pride, 846 01:19:30,388 --> 01:19:32,187 ambitious past all thinking, self-loving... 847 01:19:32,188 --> 01:19:33,947 I think not so. 848 01:19:33,948 --> 01:19:36,348 And Rome sits safe and still without him. 849 01:19:36,349 --> 01:19:38,629 - Shh. - Shh. 850 01:19:42,630 --> 01:19:45,707 There are reports the Volsces, with two several powers, 851 01:19:45,708 --> 01:19:48,228 are entered in the Roman territories, 852 01:19:48,229 --> 01:19:52,508 and with the deepest malice of the war, destroy what lies before them. 853 01:19:52,509 --> 01:19:55,068 - Shh. - It is Aufidius, 854 01:19:55,069 --> 01:19:56,748 who, hearing of our Martius' banishment, 855 01:19:56,749 --> 01:19:59,708 thrusts forth his horns into the world again. 856 01:19:59,709 --> 01:20:01,068 Come, what talk you of Martius? 857 01:20:01,069 --> 01:20:03,108 It cannot be the Volsces dare break with us. 858 01:20:03,109 --> 01:20:07,268 Cannot be? We have record that it can. 859 01:20:07,269 --> 01:20:10,308 The nobles in great earnestness are going all to the Senate House. 860 01:20:10,309 --> 01:20:14,029 Some news is coming that turns their countenances. 861 01:20:14,030 --> 01:20:16,588 Yes, the first report is seconded, and more... 862 01:20:16,589 --> 01:20:18,908 ...more fearful is delivered. 863 01:20:18,909 --> 01:20:22,429 Martius has joined with Aufidius. 864 01:20:22,430 --> 01:20:24,589 He leads a power against Rome, 865 01:20:24,590 --> 01:20:28,029 and vows revenge as spacious as between 866 01:20:28,030 --> 01:20:30,510 the youngest and oldest thing. 867 01:20:33,271 --> 01:20:35,709 A fearful army, led by Caius Martius, 868 01:20:35,710 --> 01:20:39,669 associated with Aufidius, rages upon our territories, 869 01:20:39,670 --> 01:20:41,630 and have already overborne their way, 870 01:20:41,631 --> 01:20:44,231 consumed with fire, and took what lay before them. 871 01:20:44,831 --> 01:20:46,909 Martius has joined with the Volscians. 872 01:20:46,910 --> 01:20:49,629 He is their god. He leads them like boys 873 01:20:49,630 --> 01:20:52,831 pursuing summer butterflies or butchers killing flies. 874 01:21:43,632 --> 01:21:45,551 Do they still fly to the Roman? 875 01:21:45,552 --> 01:21:47,631 I do not know what witchcraft's in him, 876 01:21:47,632 --> 01:21:51,152 but your soldiers use him as the grace before meat, 877 01:21:51,153 --> 01:21:54,151 their talk at table, and their thanks at end. 878 01:21:54,152 --> 01:21:56,552 And you are darkened in this action, sir. 879 01:21:59,514 --> 01:22:03,271 He bears himself more proud, even to my person, 880 01:22:03,272 --> 01:22:06,951 than I thought he would when first I did embrace him. 881 01:22:06,952 --> 01:22:11,352 Sir, I beseech you, think you he will carry Rome? 882 01:22:13,754 --> 01:22:17,872 I think he will be to Rome as is the osprey to the fish, 883 01:22:17,873 --> 01:22:20,993 who takes it by sovereignty of nature. 884 01:23:17,516 --> 01:23:22,315 Whether it was pride, whether defect of judgment... 885 01:23:24,076 --> 01:23:27,834 ...or whether nature, not to be other than one thing, 886 01:23:27,835 --> 01:23:32,915 made him feared, so hated, and so banished... 887 01:23:34,836 --> 01:23:39,275 ...so our virtues lie in the interpretation of the time. 888 01:23:40,556 --> 01:23:44,115 One fire drives out one fire... 889 01:23:45,356 --> 01:23:47,795 ...one nail, one nail. 890 01:23:49,996 --> 01:23:55,756 Rights by rights falter, strengths by strengths do fail. 891 01:23:59,156 --> 01:24:03,223 When..... Caius...... 892 01:24:03,717 --> 01:24:08,196 Rome is thine, thou art poorest of all... 893 01:24:10,197 --> 01:24:14,676 ...then shortly art thou mine. 894 01:24:15,877 --> 01:24:17,435 No, I will not go. 895 01:24:17,436 --> 01:24:20,516 - Good Menenius... - Go, you that banished him. 896 01:24:20,517 --> 01:24:25,557 A mile before his tent, fall down, and kneel the way into his mercy. 897 01:24:49,638 --> 01:24:51,117 He would not seem to know me. 898 01:24:53,238 --> 01:24:56,157 I urged our old acquaintance, and the drops 899 01:24:56,158 --> 01:24:58,357 that we have bled together. 900 01:24:58,358 --> 01:25:04,157 "Coriolanus" he would not answer to, forbad all names. 901 01:25:05,678 --> 01:25:07,197 He was... 902 01:25:10,719 --> 01:25:12,598 ...a kind of nothing. 903 01:25:18,119 --> 01:25:19,838 Titleless. 904 01:25:21,599 --> 01:25:26,158 Till he had forged himself a name in the fire of burning Rome. 905 01:25:29,279 --> 01:25:30,718 If you refuse your aid in this... 906 01:25:30,719 --> 01:25:33,357 If you would be your country's pleader, your good tongue, 907 01:25:33,358 --> 01:25:36,557 more than the instant army we can make, might stop our countryman. 908 01:25:36,558 --> 01:25:39,038 - No, I will not meddle. - Pray you, go to him. 909 01:25:39,039 --> 01:25:42,638 - What should I do? - Only make trial what your love can do 910 01:25:42,639 --> 01:25:44,118 for Rome towards Martius. 911 01:25:44,119 --> 01:25:49,878 Well, and say "Martius return me, as Titus is returned, unhurt." 912 01:25:49,879 --> 01:25:50,958 What then? 913 01:25:50,959 --> 01:25:53,758 Yet your good will must have that thanks from Rome. 914 01:25:53,759 --> 01:25:57,999 You know the very road into his kindness, and cannot lose your way. 915 01:26:07,160 --> 01:26:08,399 I will undertake it. 916 01:26:14,321 --> 01:26:15,960 I think he will hear me. 917 01:26:24,761 --> 01:26:28,078 - He will never hear him. - No? 918 01:26:28,079 --> 01:26:31,120 I tell you, he does sit in gold... 919 01:26:31,841 --> 01:26:36,080 ...his eye, red, as it would burn Rome. 920 01:28:03,484 --> 01:28:08,723 The glorious gods sit in hourly synod about thy particular prosperity... 921 01:28:10,403 --> 01:28:14,443 ...and love thee no worse than thy old friend Menenius does. 922 01:28:18,324 --> 01:28:21,443 O Martius, Martius. 923 01:28:22,924 --> 01:28:24,883 Thou art preparing fire for us. 924 01:28:26,565 --> 01:28:27,883 Look thee... 925 01:28:29,285 --> 01:28:30,804 ...there's water to quench it. 926 01:28:33,484 --> 01:28:35,002 I was hardly moved to come to thee, 927 01:28:35,003 --> 01:28:37,523 but being assured none but myself could move thee, 928 01:28:37,524 --> 01:28:42,564 I have been blown out of your gates with sighs... 929 01:28:43,965 --> 01:28:48,604 ...and conjure thee to pardon Rome. 930 01:28:53,965 --> 01:28:55,164 Away. 931 01:28:55,765 --> 01:28:58,834 - "How"? - "Away"? 932 01:28:59,206 --> 01:29:03,324 Wife... mother... child... I know not. 933 01:29:04,085 --> 01:29:05,963 My affairs are servanted to others. 934 01:29:05,964 --> 01:29:08,444 - Sir... - Therefore be gone. 935 01:29:12,285 --> 01:29:15,045 Another word, Menenius, I will not hear thee speak. 936 01:29:56,367 --> 01:30:00,206 This Martius is grown from man to dragon. 937 01:30:01,047 --> 01:30:02,566 He has wings. 938 01:30:04,487 --> 01:30:07,006 He's more than a creeping thing. 939 01:30:21,367 --> 01:30:26,767 There is no more mercy in him than there is milk in a male tiger. 940 01:33:40,973 --> 01:33:42,572 My lord and husband. 941 01:33:43,453 --> 01:33:46,211 These eyes are not the same I wore in Rome. 942 01:33:46,212 --> 01:33:49,371 The sorrow that delivers us thus changed makes you think so. 943 01:33:49,372 --> 01:33:54,651 Best of my flesh, forgive my tyranny, 944 01:33:54,652 --> 01:33:58,293 but do not say for that "Forgive our Romans." 945 01:34:11,294 --> 01:34:13,653 O, a kiss... 946 01:34:15,534 --> 01:34:17,773 ...long as my exile... 947 01:34:21,894 --> 01:34:25,293 ...sweet as my revenge. 948 01:34:29,175 --> 01:34:31,692 Ye gods, I prate, 949 01:34:31,693 --> 01:34:35,092 and the most noble mother of the world leave unsaluted. 950 01:34:35,093 --> 01:34:37,172 Sink, my knee, in the earth. 951 01:34:37,173 --> 01:34:39,653 Stand up, blest. 952 01:34:41,014 --> 01:34:43,813 Whilst with no softer cushion than the flint 953 01:34:43,814 --> 01:34:46,813 - I kneel before thee. - What's this? 954 01:34:46,814 --> 01:34:49,373 Your knees to me? 955 01:34:49,374 --> 01:34:51,093 To your corrected son? 956 01:34:51,094 --> 01:34:54,613 Thou art my warrior. I helped to frame thee. 957 01:34:54,614 --> 01:34:57,333 This is a poor epitome of yours, 958 01:34:57,334 --> 01:35:01,054 which by the interpretation of full time may show like all yourself. 959 01:35:09,655 --> 01:35:14,094 The god of soldiers, inform thy thoughts with nobleness, 960 01:35:14,095 --> 01:35:16,855 that thou may'st prove to shame, invulnerable. 961 01:35:18,256 --> 01:35:19,654 Your knee, sir. 962 01:35:20,136 --> 01:35:25,454 Even he, your wife, this lady and myself, 963 01:35:25,455 --> 01:35:27,494 - are suitors to you. - I beseech you, peace. 964 01:35:27,495 --> 01:35:30,294 Or, if you'd ask, remember this: 965 01:35:30,295 --> 01:35:32,774 Do not bid me dismiss my soldiers, 966 01:35:32,775 --> 01:35:35,774 or capitulate again with Rome's mechanics. 967 01:35:35,775 --> 01:35:37,974 Tell me not wherein I seem unnatural. 968 01:35:37,975 --> 01:35:42,416 Desire not to allay my rages and revenges with your colder reasons. 969 01:35:43,456 --> 01:35:46,495 No more, no more. 970 01:35:46,496 --> 01:35:50,055 You have said you will not grant us anything, 971 01:35:50,056 --> 01:35:53,055 for we have nothing else to ask but that which you deny already. 972 01:35:53,056 --> 01:35:56,615 Yet we will ask, that if you fail in our request, 973 01:35:56,616 --> 01:35:59,656 the blame may hang upon your hardness. Therefore hear us. 974 01:36:00,297 --> 01:36:01,975 Aufidius, and you Volsces, mark. 975 01:36:01,976 --> 01:36:04,576 For we will hear naught from Rome in private. 976 01:36:12,897 --> 01:36:14,336 Your request? 977 01:36:41,138 --> 01:36:45,296 Should we be silent and not speak, our raiment 978 01:36:45,297 --> 01:36:49,657 and state of bodies would betray what life we have led since thy exile. 979 01:36:53,098 --> 01:36:55,098 Think with thyself. 980 01:36:55,779 --> 01:37:00,977 How more unfortunate than all living women are we come hither, 981 01:37:00,978 --> 01:37:06,137 since that thy sight, which should make our eyes flow with joy, 982 01:37:06,138 --> 01:37:09,618 hearts dance with comforts... 983 01:37:11,459 --> 01:37:15,978 ...constrains them weep and shake with fear and sorrow... 984 01:37:18,179 --> 01:37:19,897 ...making the mother, wife, and child 985 01:37:19,898 --> 01:37:24,057 to see the son, the husband and the father 986 01:37:24,058 --> 01:37:26,378 tearing his country's bowels out. 987 01:37:27,860 --> 01:37:30,578 And we must find an evident calamity, 988 01:37:30,579 --> 01:37:33,578 though we had our wish, which side should win. 989 01:37:33,579 --> 01:37:38,457 For either thou must, as a foreign recreant, 990 01:37:38,458 --> 01:37:42,297 be led with manacles through our streets, 991 01:37:42,298 --> 01:37:46,498 or else, triumphantly, tread on thy country's ruin, 992 01:37:46,499 --> 01:37:49,417 and bear the palm for having bravely shed 993 01:37:49,418 --> 01:37:51,699 thy wife and children's blood. 994 01:37:57,781 --> 01:38:02,179 For myself... son... 995 01:38:03,980 --> 01:38:07,818 ...I purpose not to wait on fortune till these wars determine. 996 01:38:07,819 --> 01:38:10,619 If I cannot persuade thee rather to show a noble grace 997 01:38:10,620 --> 01:38:12,659 to both parts than seek the end to one, 998 01:38:12,660 --> 01:38:16,499 thou shalt no sooner march to assault thy country 999 01:38:16,500 --> 01:38:19,220 than to tread on thy mother's womb... 1000 01:38:20,861 --> 01:38:22,259 ...that brought thee to this world. 1001 01:38:22,260 --> 01:38:25,499 Aye, and mine, that brought you forth this boy 1002 01:38:25,500 --> 01:38:27,340 to keep your name living to time. 1003 01:38:31,021 --> 01:38:32,380 You shall not tread on me. 1004 01:38:33,621 --> 01:38:35,260 I will run away till I am bigger... 1005 01:38:36,781 --> 01:38:38,341 ...but then I will fight. 1006 01:38:40,221 --> 01:38:44,100 - I have sat too long. - Nay, go not from us thus. 1007 01:38:44,101 --> 01:38:49,580 If it were so that our request did tend to save the Romans, 1008 01:38:49,581 --> 01:38:52,580 thereby to destroy the Volsces whom you serve, 1009 01:38:52,581 --> 01:38:57,700 thou might'st condemn us as poisonous of your honor. 1010 01:38:57,701 --> 01:39:01,940 No. Our suit is that you reconcile them. 1011 01:39:01,941 --> 01:39:05,740 So that the Volces may say "This mercy we have showed," 1012 01:39:05,741 --> 01:39:07,861 the Romans, "This we have received," 1013 01:39:07,862 --> 01:39:12,700 and each on either side give the all-hail to thee and cry, 1014 01:39:12,701 --> 01:39:14,582 "Be blest for making up this peace." 1015 01:39:22,383 --> 01:39:23,342 Speak to me, son. 1016 01:39:26,662 --> 01:39:28,382 Why dost not speak? 1017 01:39:33,743 --> 01:39:36,221 Speak you, daughter. 1018 01:39:36,222 --> 01:39:38,501 He cares not for your weeping. 1019 01:39:38,502 --> 01:39:39,702 Speak thou, boy. 1020 01:39:40,543 --> 01:39:44,141 Perhaps thy childishness will move him more than can our reasons. 1021 01:39:44,142 --> 01:39:46,701 There's no man in the world more bound to his mother, 1022 01:39:46,702 --> 01:39:49,461 yet here he lets me prate like one in the stocks. 1023 01:39:49,462 --> 01:39:55,221 Thou hast never, in thy life, shown thy dear mother any courtesy, 1024 01:39:55,222 --> 01:39:59,102 when she, poor hen, has clucked thee to the wars 1025 01:39:59,103 --> 01:40:02,022 and safely home loaded with honor. 1026 01:40:02,023 --> 01:40:06,182 Say my request's unjust and spurn me back, but if it be not so... 1027 01:40:07,984 --> 01:40:13,382 ...thou art not honest and the gods will plague thee, 1028 01:40:13,383 --> 01:40:17,863 that thou restrains from me the duty which to a mother's part belongs. 1029 01:40:21,624 --> 01:40:24,703 Down, ladies. Let us shame him with our knees. 1030 01:40:27,945 --> 01:40:29,743 Down. 1031 01:40:31,544 --> 01:40:33,264 This is the last. 1032 01:40:34,785 --> 01:40:36,664 An end. 1033 01:40:44,424 --> 01:40:48,504 So we will home to Rome, and die among our neighbors. 1034 01:40:52,745 --> 01:40:54,024 Nay. 1035 01:40:55,386 --> 01:40:59,264 Behold'st, this boy, that cannot tell what he would have... 1036 01:41:01,025 --> 01:41:04,303 ...yet kneels and holds up hands for fellowship. 1037 01:41:04,304 --> 01:41:08,625 Does reason our petition with more strength than thou hast to deny it. 1038 01:41:13,945 --> 01:41:15,983 Come, let us go. 1039 01:41:15,984 --> 01:41:19,305 This fellow had a Volscian to his mother. 1040 01:41:20,346 --> 01:41:24,625 His wife is in Corioles and his child like him by chance. 1041 01:41:25,626 --> 01:41:29,584 Yet give us our dispatch I am hushed until our city be afire, 1042 01:41:29,585 --> 01:41:31,385 and then I will speak a little. 1043 01:41:49,186 --> 01:41:50,986 O Mother... 1044 01:41:56,547 --> 01:41:57,906 Mother... 1045 01:42:00,987 --> 01:42:02,706 What have you done? 1046 01:42:07,307 --> 01:42:08,946 Behold... 1047 01:42:13,268 --> 01:42:16,506 ...the heavens do ope... 1048 01:42:18,987 --> 01:42:20,986 ...the gods look down... 1049 01:42:25,107 --> 01:42:30,026 ...and this unnatural scene they laugh at. 1050 01:42:34,668 --> 01:42:38,027 O my mother. 1051 01:42:44,508 --> 01:42:46,027 Mother. 1052 01:42:51,028 --> 01:42:51,508 O. 1053 01:43:00,269 --> 01:43:03,308 You have won... 1054 01:43:04,748 --> 01:43:08,628 ...a happy victory to Rome. 1055 01:43:11,349 --> 01:43:14,748 But for your son, believe it. 1056 01:43:16,309 --> 01:43:17,788 O believe it. 1057 01:43:19,509 --> 01:43:24,228 Most... dangerously you have prevailed with him. 1058 01:43:26,469 --> 01:43:28,949 If not most mortal to him. 1059 01:43:34,150 --> 01:43:35,188 But let it come. 1060 01:43:39,550 --> 01:43:41,549 Aufidius... 1061 01:43:43,870 --> 01:43:48,829 ...though I cannot make true wars, I will frame convenient peace. 1062 01:43:50,310 --> 01:43:52,108 Now, good Aufidius, were you in my stead, 1063 01:43:52,109 --> 01:43:56,469 would you have heard a mother less? Or granted less? Aufidius? 1064 01:43:57,870 --> 01:43:59,550 I was moved withal. 1065 01:44:00,270 --> 01:44:04,229 I dare be sworn you were. And, sir, it is no little thing 1066 01:44:04,230 --> 01:44:06,709 to make mine eyes to sweat compassion. 1067 01:44:08,351 --> 01:44:12,990 But, good sir, what peace you will make, advise me. 1068 01:45:01,752 --> 01:45:04,430 A merrier day did never yet greet Rome. 1069 01:45:04,431 --> 01:45:07,470 No, not the expulsion of the Tarquins. 1070 01:45:07,471 --> 01:45:13,072 We have all great cause to give great thanks. 1071 01:45:13,952 --> 01:45:18,552 Behold our patroness, the life of Rome. 1072 01:45:31,153 --> 01:45:32,871 How is it with our general? 1073 01:45:32,872 --> 01:45:35,591 As with a man by his own charity slain. 1074 01:45:35,592 --> 01:45:40,071 Our soldiers will remain uncertain whilst 'twixt you there's difference, 1075 01:45:40,072 --> 01:45:42,671 but the fall of either makes the survivor heir of all. 1076 01:45:42,672 --> 01:45:44,152 I know it. 1077 01:45:44,993 --> 01:45:48,752 And my pretext to strike at him admits a good construction. 1078 01:45:51,393 --> 01:45:55,511 I raised him, and I pawned mine honor for his truth, 1079 01:45:55,512 --> 01:45:58,712 who, being so heightened, 1080 01:45:58,713 --> 01:46:02,272 he watered his new plants with dews of flattery, 1081 01:46:02,273 --> 01:46:04,033 seducing so my friends. 1082 01:46:06,674 --> 01:46:10,272 At the last, I seemed his follower, not partner, 1083 01:46:10,273 --> 01:46:13,592 and he waged me with his countenance as if I had been mercenary. 1084 01:46:13,593 --> 01:46:16,472 So he did, my lord. The army marveled at it. 1085 01:46:16,473 --> 01:46:19,232 And, in the last, when he had carried Rome 1086 01:46:19,233 --> 01:46:21,513 and that we looked for no less spoil than glory... 1087 01:46:21,514 --> 01:46:23,632 There was it. 1088 01:46:23,633 --> 01:46:26,273 For which my sinews shall be stretched upon him. 1089 01:46:28,915 --> 01:46:34,473 At a few drops of women's rheum, which are as cheap as lies, 1090 01:46:34,474 --> 01:46:39,274 he sold the blood and labor of our great action. 1091 01:46:42,195 --> 01:46:44,274 Therefore shall he die... 1092 01:46:46,475 --> 01:46:50,154 ...and I will renew me in his fall. 1093 01:46:50,915 --> 01:46:52,834 Say no more. 1094 01:47:55,717 --> 01:47:58,915 I am returned your soldier, 1095 01:47:58,916 --> 01:48:02,555 no more infected with my country's love than when I parted hence, 1096 01:48:02,556 --> 01:48:06,635 but still subsisting under your great command. 1097 01:48:06,636 --> 01:48:09,755 We have made peace with no less honor to the Volscians 1098 01:48:09,756 --> 01:48:11,675 than shame to the Romans. 1099 01:48:11,676 --> 01:48:14,155 Tell the traitor, in the highest degree 1100 01:48:14,156 --> 01:48:17,875 - he hath abused your powers. - Traitor? How now? 1101 01:48:17,876 --> 01:48:20,195 Aye, traitor, Martius. 1102 01:48:20,196 --> 01:48:23,596 - "Martius"? - Aye, Martius. 1103 01:48:24,598 --> 01:48:26,317 Caius Martius. 1104 01:48:27,157 --> 01:48:29,796 Dost thou think I will grace thee with that robbery, 1105 01:48:29,797 --> 01:48:31,956 thy stolen name "Coriolanus"? 1106 01:48:33,358 --> 01:48:37,636 Perfidiously he hath betrayed your business 1107 01:48:37,637 --> 01:48:42,876 and given up, for certain drops of salt, 1108 01:48:42,877 --> 01:48:44,677 your city, Rome. 1109 01:48:44,678 --> 01:48:50,278 I say "your city," for his wife and mother. 1110 01:48:51,119 --> 01:48:56,718 Breaking his oath and resolution like a twist of rotten silk. 1111 01:48:57,439 --> 01:49:01,117 Never admitting counsel of the war, but at his nurse's tears, 1112 01:49:01,118 --> 01:49:04,437 he whined and roared away your victory. 1113 01:49:04,438 --> 01:49:06,116 Hear'st thou, Mars? 1114 01:49:06,117 --> 01:49:09,277 Name not the god, thou boy of tears. 1115 01:49:09,278 --> 01:49:14,437 Measureless liar, thou has made my heart too great for what contains it. 1116 01:49:14,438 --> 01:49:18,037 "Boy"? O slave. 1117 01:49:18,038 --> 01:49:20,717 Cut me to pieces, Volsces. 1118 01:49:20,718 --> 01:49:25,597 Men and lads, stain all your edges on me. 1119 01:49:25,598 --> 01:49:26,718 "Boy"? 1120 01:49:29,079 --> 01:49:31,517 If you have writ your annals true, 1121 01:49:31,518 --> 01:49:34,838 it is there that, like an eagle in a dovecote, 1122 01:49:34,839 --> 01:49:38,438 I fluttered your Volscians in Corioles. 1123 01:49:38,439 --> 01:49:41,239 Alone I did it. 1124 01:49:41,960 --> 01:49:43,479 "Boy." 1125 01:49:50,600 --> 01:49:52,079 Let him die for it.