介绍:
Tom说Coriolanus" hurtling towards his own destruction because of the obstinacy of his nature."就是这一场的写照吧。Coriolanus的高贵与无私，幼稚与偏执在这一场中一览无余，盛怒之下，上帝本人也不能令他住嘴。
So then the Volsces stand but as at first. Ready, when time shall prompt them, to make road upon us again.
Saw you Aufidius?
(On safe-guard he came to me. And did curse against the Volsces, for they had so vilely yielded the town. He is retired to Antium.)
Spoke he of me?
How? What?
At Antium lives he?
I wish I had a cause to seek him there, to oppose his hatred fully. Welcome home.
Behold, these are the tribunes of the people, the tongues of the common mouth.
Ha! What is that?
(The people are incensed.)
What makes this change?
Have I had children's voices?
Are these your herd? Must these have voices, that can yield them now and straight disclaim their tongues?
What are your offices? You being their mouths, why rule you not their teeth? Have you not set them on?
It is a purposed thing, and grows by plot to curb the will of the nobility. Suffer it, and live with such as cannot rule nor will be ruled.
Why, this was known before.
Have you informed them since?
You are like to do such business.
Tell me of corn! This was my speech, and I will speak it again.
Now, as I live, I will. My nobler friends, I crave their pardons.
For the mutable, rank-scented many, let them regard me as I do not flatter, and therein behold themselves. I say again, in soothing them, we nourish against our senate the cockle of rebellion, insolence, sedition.Which we ourselves have ploughed for, sowed, and scattered by mingling them with us the honoured number, who lack not virtue, no, nor power, but that which they have given to beggars.
How, no more?
As for my country I have shed my blood, not fearing outward force, so shall my lungs coin words till their decay against those measles, which we disdain should tetter us, yet sought the way to catch them.
Choler!
Were I as patient as the midnight sleep, by Jove, 'twould be my mind.
'Shall remain? Hear you this Triton of the minnows? Mark you her absolute 'shall'?
('Twas from the canon.)
'Shall'!
O good but most unwise patricians! Why, you grave but reckless senators have you thus given Hydra here to choose an officer, that with her peremptory 'shall' being but the horn and noise of the monster's, wants not spirit to say she'll tune your current in a ditch, and make your channel hers?
If she have power, then vail your ignorance. If none, awake your dangerous lenity. If you are learned, be nor as common fools. If you are not, let them have cushions by you.
You are plebeians, if they be senators!
They choose their magistrate, and such a one as she, who puts her 'shall', her popular 'shall' against a graver bench than ever frowned in Greece. By Jove himself, it makes the consuls base.
And my soul aches to know when two authorities are up, neither supreme how soon confusion may enter 'twixt the gap and take one by the other.
Whoever gave that counsel, to give forth the corn of the storehouse gratis, as
twas used sometime in Greece though there the people had more absolute power, I say they nourished disobedience, fed the ruin of the state.
I'll give my reasons, more worthier than their voices. They know the corn was not our recompense, resting well assured that never did service for it.
Being pressed to the war, even when the navel of the state wastouched, they would not thread the gates. This kind of service did not deserve corn gratis.
Being in the war, their mutinies and revolts, wherein they showed most valor, spoke not for them.
The accusation which they have often made against the senate, all cause unborn could never be the motive of our so frank donation.
Well, what then? How shall this bosom multiplied digest the senate's courtesy?
Let deeds express what's like to bo their words:
'We did request it, we are the greater poll, and in true fear they gave us our demands.'
Thus we debase the nature of our seats and make the rabble call our cares fears.
Which will in time break ope the locks of the senate and bring in the crows to peck the eagles.
No, take more!
What may be sworn by, both divine and human, seal what I end withal.
This double worship, where one part does disdain with cause, the other insult without all reason.
Where gentry, title, wisdom, cannot conclude but by the yea and no of general ignorance.
It must omit real necessities, and give way the while to unstble slightness.
Purpose so barred, it follows, nothing is done to purpose.
Therefore, beseech you.
You that would be less cowardly than wise, that love the fundamental part of state more than you fear the change on it, and prefer a noble life before a long.
Pluck out the multitudinous tongue, let them not lick the sweet which is their poison.
Your dishonour mangles true judgment and bereaves the state of that integrity which should become it.
Nor having the power to do the good it would, for the ill which doth control it.
Hence, you goat!
Hence, rotten thing, or I shall shake thy bones out of thy garments.
No, I'll die here.
There's some among you have beheld me fighting. Come, try upon yourslves what you have seen me.
I would they were barbarians, as they are, though in Rome littered.
Not Romans, as they are not, though whelped in the porch of the Capitol.
(Be gone!)
On fair ground I could beat forty of them.
