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Volumnia pleads with her son Coriolanus to reconsider his refusal to grant their request, emphasizing the emotional turmoil and suffering of the women affected by the war. She argues that his victory would come at the cost of his honor and the destruction of his country, urging him to reconcile with the Romans rather than pursue vengeance. Ultimately, she expresses desperation, stating that they will return to Rome and face their fate if he does not relent.

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Volumnia pleads with her son Coriolanus to reconsider his refusal to grant their request, emphasizing the emotional turmoil and suffering of the women affected by the war. She argues that his victory would come at the cost of his honor and the destruction of his country, urging him to reconcile with the Romans rather than pursue vengeance. Ultimately, she expresses desperation, stating that they will return to Rome and face their fate if he does not relent.

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Volumnia.

1.​ O, no more, no more!


2.​ You have said you will not grant us any thing;
3.​ For we have nothing else to ask, but that
4.​ Which you deny already: yet we will ask;
5.​ That, if you fail in our request, the blame
6.​ May hang upon your hardness: therefore hear us:
7.​ Should we be silent and not speak, our raiment
8.​ And state of bodies would bewray what life
9.​ We have led since thy exile. Think with thyself
10.​How more unfortunate than all living women
11.​Are we come hither: since that thy sight,
12.​which should
13.​Make our eyes flow with joy, hearts dance
14.​with comforts,
15.​Constrains them weep and shake with fear and sorrow;
16.​Making the mother, wife and child to see
17.​The son, the husband and the father tearing
18.​His country's bowels out. And to poor we
19.​Thine enmity's most capital: thou barr'st us
20.​Our prayers to the gods, which is a comfort
21.​That all but we enjoy; for how can we,
22.​Alas, how can we for our country pray.
23.​Whereto we are bound, together with thy victory,
24.​Whereto we are bound? alack, or we must lose
25.​The country, our dear nurse, or else thy person,
26.​Our comfort in the country. We must find
27.​An evident calamity, though we had
28.​Our wish, which side should win: for either thou
29.​Must, as a foreign recreant, be led
30.​With manacles thorough our streets, or else
31.​triumphantly tread on thy country's ruin,
32.​And bear the palm for having bravely shed
33.​Thy wife and children's blood.For myself, son,
34.​I purpose not to wait on fortune till
35.​These wars determine: if I cannot persuade thee
36.​Rather to show a noble grace to both parts
37.​Than seek the end of one, thou shalt no sooner
38.​March to assault thy country than to tread—
39.​Trust to't, thou shalt not—on thy mother's womb,
40.​That brought thee to this world.
41.​If it were so that our request did tend
42.​To save the Romans, thereby to destroy
43.​The Volsces whom you serve, you might condemn us
44.​As poisonous of your honour: no; our suit
45.​Is that you reconcile them:
46.​Thou know'st, great Love,
47.​The end of war's uncertain, but this certain,
48.​That, if thou conquer Rome, the benefit
49.​Which thou shalt thereby reap is such a name,
50.​Whose repetition will be dogg'd with curses;
51.​Whose chronicle thus writ: 'The man was noble,
52.​But with his last attempt he wiped it out;
53.​Destroy'd his country, and his name remains
54.​To the ensuing age abhorr'd.'
55.​Think'st thou it honourable for a noble man
56.​Still to remember wrongs?
57.​Say my request's unjust,
58.​And spurn me back: but if it be not so,
59.​Thou art not honest; and the gods will plague thee,
60.​That thou restrain'st from me the duty which
61.​To a lover’s part belongs.
62.​Down, ladies; let us shame him with our knees.
63.​To his surname Coriolanus 'longs more pride
64.​Than pity to our prayers. Down: an end;
65.​This is the last: so we will home to Rome,
66.​And die among our neighbours. Come, let us go:
67.​I am hush'd until our city be a-fire,
68.​And then I'll speak a little.

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