Com. Y'are goodly things; you, voices !- You and your cry. Shall's to the capitol ? [Exeunt. Sic. Go, mafters, get you home, be not dismay'd. These are a fide, that would be glad to have This true, which they fo feem to fear. Go home, And fhew no fign of fear. 1 Cit. The gods be good to us: come, mafters, let's home. I ever faid, we were i'th wrong, when we banish'd him. 2 Cit. So did we all; but come, let's home. 1.. Bru. Let's to the capitol; would, half my wealth Would buy this for a lie! T on [Exeunt Tribunes. 181 26 90 MI SCENE,al Camp at a small Distance from Rome. Enter Aufidius, with his Lieutenant. Auf.D. Lien. I do not know what witchcraft's in dum gaihim; buty mi Your foldiers use him as the grace And you are darken'd in this action, Sir, Auf. I cannot help it now. Lieu. Yet I with, Sir.. (I mean for your particular) you had not a sid Join'd in commiffion with him; but had borne Auf. I understand thee well; and be thou fure, To th' vulgar eye, that he bears all things fairly; Lieu. Sir, I befeech, think you, he'll carry Rome? Auf. All places yield to him ere he fits down, And the nobility of Rome are his : The fenators and patricians love him too: To expel him thence. I think, he'll be to Rome (35) • I think, be'll be to Rome (35) As Though one's fearth might have been very vain to find any fuch word as Afpray, yet Leafily imagin'd,. fomething inuít be couch'd, under the corruption, in its nature destructive to fish, and that made a prey of them. And this fufpicion led me to the difcovery. The Ofprey is a fpecies of the eagle, of a ftrong make, that haunts the fea and lakes for its food, and altogether preys on fifh. It is called the anail, or Aquila Marina, as alfo Avis offifraga: thence contracted first, perhaps, into Ofphrey, and then, with regard to the eate of pronunciation, Offrey. Pliny gives us this description of its acute fight, and eagernets after its prey. Haliæetus, clariffima oculorum acie, librans ex alto fefe, vifo in mari pifce, præceps in mare ruens, et difcuffis pectore aquis, rapiens. It may not be difagreeable to go a little farther to explain the propriety of the poet's allufion. Why will Coriolanus be to Rome, as the Ofprey to the fish, -be'll take it By fou reignty of nature? Shakespeare, 'tis well known, has a peculiarity in thinking; and wherever he is acquainted with nature, is fure to allude to her most uncommon As is the Ofprey to the fish, who takes it As he controll'd the war;) But one of these, uncommon effects and operations. I am very apt to imagine, therefore, that the poet meant, Coriolanus would take Rome by the very opinion and terror of his name, as fish are taken by the Ofprey, thro' an instinctive fear they have of him. "The fishermen, (fays our "old naturalift William Turner,) are ufed to anoint their baits with Ofprey's fat, thinking thereby to make them the more efficacious: "becaufe, when that bird is hovering in the air, all the fish, that are beneath him, (the nature of the eagle, as it is believ'd, com"pelling them to it;) turn up their bellies, and as it were, give him his choice which he will take of them." Gefner goes a little farther in fupport of this odd inftinct, telling us," that while this bird "flutters in the air, and fometimes, as it were, feems fufpended "there, he drops a certain quantity of his fat, by the influence "whereof the fish are fo affrighted and confounded, that they im“mediately turn themselves Lelly upwards; upon which he fowfes "down perpendicularly like a stone, and feizes them in his talons". To this, I dare fay, Shakespeare alludes in this expreflion of the for reignty of nature. This very thought is again touch'd by Beaumont and Fletcher, in their Two Noble Kinfmen; a play in which there is a tradition of our author having been jointly concern'd. -But, oh, Jove! your actions, Soon as they move, as Aprays do the fift, Subdue before they touch, For here again we must read, Ospreys, And And power, unto itself moft commendable, (36) One fire drives out one fire; one nail, one nail; (36) And pow'r, unto itself most commendable, Hath not a tomb fo evident, as a chair Textol what it hath done] This is a very common fentiment, but most obfcurely exprefs'd. This is the fenfe. That virtue, which delights to commend itfelf, will find the certaineft tomb in that chair, in which it holds forth on its own commendations. i. e. Nothing fo readily throws our own virtue into oblivion, as the practice of commending one's felf. That power, which is moft jealous of competitors, [unto itself most commendable,]; hath no certainer grave than that chair in which it extols its own worth Mr. WarburtonT Enter Menenius, Cominius, Sicinius, Bratus with others. da og sú plnoh MENENIUS, ak rent stud No, I'll not go: you hear, what he hath faid, Which was fometime his General; who lov'd him Com. He would not seem to know me." Com. Yet one time he did call me by my name: 'Till he had forg'd himself a name o' th' fire Men. Why, fo; you've made good work: A pair of tribunes, that have rack'd for Rome, To make coals cheap: a noble memory! J } Com. I minded him, how royal 'twas to pardon And |