So, with me:--
My birth-place hate I, and my love's upon
This enemy's town:--I'll enter: if he slay me]
He who reads this [My country have I and my lovers left;/This enemy's
town I'll enter] would think that he was reading the lines of
Shakespeare: except that Coriolanus, being already in the town, says, he
_will enter it_. Yet the old edition exhibits it thus
--_So with me.
My birth-place have I; and my loves upon
This enemic towne; I'll enter if he slay me_, &c.
The intermediate line seems to be lost, in which, conformably to his
former observation, he says, that _he has_ lost _his birth-place, and
his loves upon_ a petty dispute, and is trying his chance in _this enemy
town_, he then cries, turning to the house of Anfidius, _I'll enter if
he slay me_.
I have preferred the common reading, because it is, though faulty, yet
intelligible, and the original passage, for want of copies, cannot be
restored.
IV.v.76 (403,3) a good memory] The Oxford editor, not knowing that
_memory_ was used at that time for _memorial_, alters it to _memorial_.
IV.v.90 (403,4) A heart of wreak in thee] A heart of resentment.
IV.v.91 (403,5) maims/Of shame] That is, disgraceful diminutions of
territory.
IV.v.207 (406,5) sanctifies himself with's hands] Alluding, improperly,
to the act of _crossing_ upon any strange event.
IV.v.212 (407,6) He will go, he says, and sowle the porter of Rome gates
by the ears] That is, I suppose, drag him down by the ears into the
dirt. _Souiller_, Fr.
IV.v.214 (407,7) his passage poll'd] That is, _bared, cleared_.
IV.v.238 (408,8) full of vent] Full of _rumour_, full of materials for
_discourse_.
IV.vi.2 (408,1) His remedies are tame i' the present peace] The old
reading is,
_His remedies are tame, the present peace_.