ABSTRACT
Caius Martins going to the Wars against the Volscians takes Coriolus, and beats Tullus Aufidius, and has the Glory of the war attributed to him by the Consul. On this he is to sue for the Consulship, which he disdains a great while, but at last submitting he does it aukerdly, and almost bursting with Disdain and Pride. He goes over to the Volscians and heads their Forces against Rome not yet prepar'd to receive him; Cominius first and Menenius next go to intreat him, but he proves inexorable till his Mother, Wife, Son, Valeria, &c. And indeed it seems something opposite to his Pride, which both in the Play and History was so signal him. The chapter examine this Point with that Clearness, that theirs might; nor is it so much to our present Purpose; and yet author presume the Digression is not so foreign to the Matter as to deserve a judicious Censure.
