_Sic._ Are you mankind?
_Vol._ Ay, fool; Is that a shame? Note but this fool.
Was not a man my father?]
The word _mankind_ is used maliciously by the first speaker, and taken
perversely by the second. A _mankind_ woman is a woman with the
roughness of a man, and, in an aggravated sense, a woman ferocious,
violent, and eager to shed blood. In this sense Sicinius asks Volumnia,
if she be _mankind_. She takes _mankind_ for a _human creature_, and
accordingly cries out,
--_Note but this, fool.
Was not a man my father?_
IV.ii.18 (394,7) Hadst thou foxship] Hadst thou, fool as thou art, mean
cunning enough to banish Coriolanus?
IV.iii.9 (395,7) but your favour is well appear'd by your tongue] [W:
well appeal'd] I should read,
--_is well_ affear'd,
That is, _strengthened, attested,_ a word used by our authour.
_My title is_ affear'd. Macbeth.
To _repeal_ may be _to bring to remembrance_, but _appeal_ has another
meaning.
IV.iii.48 (397,8) already in the entertainment] That is, tho' not
actually encamped, yet already in _pay_. To _entertain_ an army is to
take them into pay.