- And in the power of us the tribunes, we,
- Even from this instant, banish him our city, 2470
- In peril of precipitation
- From off the rock Tarpeian never more
- To enter our Rome gates: i' the people's name,
- I say it shall be so.
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- He's banish'd, and it shall be so.
- I have been consul, and can show for Rome 2480
- Her enemies' marks upon me. I do love
- My country's good with a respect more tender,
- More holy and profound, than mine own life,
- My dear wife's estimate, her womb's increase,
- And treasure of my loins; then if I would 2485
- Speak that,—
- As enemy to the people and his country:
- It shall be so.
- As reek o' the rotten fens, whose loves I prize
- As the dead carcasses of unburied men
- That do corrupt my air, I banish you; 2495
- And here remain with your uncertainty!
- Let every feeble rumour shake your hearts!
- Your enemies, with nodding of their plumes,
- Fan you into despair! Have the power still
- To banish your defenders; till at length 2500
- Your ignorance, which finds not till it feels,
- Making not reservation of yourselves,
- Still your own foes, deliver you as most
- Abated captives to some nation
- That won you without blows! Despising, 2505
- For you, the city, thus I turn my back:
- There is a world elsewhere.
- [Exeunt CORIOLANUS, COMINIUS, MENENIUS, Senators,]
- and Patricians]
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