CAIUS MARCIUS,
        afterwards CAIUS MARCIUS
             CORIOLANUS Generals
               against the Volscians

   TITUS LARTIUS

   COMINIUS

    MENENIUS AGRIPPA,
           friend to Coriolanus Tribunes
               of the People

   SICINIUS VELUTUS

   JUNIUS BRUTUS

    YOUNG MARCIUS,
           son to Coriolanus

   A ROMAN HERALD

    NICANOR,
           a Roman

    TULLUS AUFIDIUS,
           General of the Volscians

    LIEUTENANT,
           to Aufidius

    CONSPIRATORS,
           With Aufidius

    ADRIAN,
           a Volscian

    A CITIZEN of Antium

   TWO VOLSCIAN GUARDS

    VOLUMNIA,
           mother to Coriolanus

    VIRGILIA,
           wife to Coriolanus

    VALERIA,
           friend to Virgilia

    GENTLEWOMAN attending on Virgilia

    Roman and Volscian Senators,
           Patricians,
         Aediles,
           Lictors,
         Soldiers,
           Citizens,
         Messengers,
           Servants to Aufidius,
         and other Attendants

   SCENE:

    Rome and the neighbourhood;
        Corioli and the neighbourhood;
           Antium
 
  ACT I. SCENE I. Rome. A
       street

    Enter a company
           of mutinous citizens,
         with staves,
         clubs,
           and other weapons

    FIRST CITIZEN.

    Before we proceed any further,
           hear me speak.

    ALL.

    Speak,
           speak.

    FIRST CITIZEN.

    YOU are all resolv'd rather
          to die than to famish?

    ALL.

    Resolv'd,
           resolv'd.

    FIRST CITIZEN.

    First,
           you know Caius Marcius
            is chief enemy
                   to the people.

    ALL.

    We know't,
           we know't.

    FIRST CITIZEN.

    Let us kill him,
           and we'll have corn
               at our own price.

    Is't a verdict?

    ALL.

    No more talking on't;
        let it be done.

    Away,
           away!

    SECOND CITIZEN.

    One word,
           good citizens.

    FIRST CITIZEN.

    We are accounted poor citizens,
           the patricians good.

    What authority surfeits on
        would relieve us;
           if they would yield us
             but the superfluity
               while it were wholesome,
           we might guess
             they relieved us humanely;
        but they think
             we are too dear.

    The leanness that afflicts us,
           the object of our misery,
         is as an inventory
              to particularize their abundance;
        our sufferance
            is a gain to them.

    Let us
          revenge this
               with our pikes ere
         we become rakes;
        for the gods
              know I
                  speak this
                       in hunger
                     for bread,
           not in thirst for revenge.

    SECOND CITIZEN.

    Would you
          proceed especially
               against Caius Marcius?

    FIRST CITIZEN.

    Against him first;
        he's a very dog
               to the commonalty.

    SECOND CITIZEN.

    Consider you
         what services
             he has
                  done for his country?

    FIRST CITIZEN.

    Very well,
           and could be content
              to give
                   him good report for't