...cleep The Anvile of my Sword, and do contest As hotly, and as Nobly with thy Love, As ever in Ambitious strength, I did Contend against thy Valour. Know thou...never man Sigh'd truer breath. But that I see thee heere Thou Noble thing, more dances my rapt heart. Then when I first my wedded Mistris saw Bestride...

...have motivared this inquiry from the start, Aufidius welcoming Coriolanus to the enemy camp: . . . that I see thee here, Thou noble thing, more dances...first my wedded mistress saw Bestride my threshold. . . . Thou hast beat me out Twelve several times, and I have nightly since Dreamt of encounrers 'twixt...

...antiquarian Edgar Fripp, pointing to lines from Coriolanus: I loved the maid I married; never man Sighed truer breath. But that I see thee here, Thou noble...first my wedded mistress saw Bestride my threshold. (4.5.113-17) But if these lines were, as Fripp thought, a recollection of the dramatist's own feelings...

...Cominius calls Coriolanus in response (line 32). Aufidius's greeting to Coriolanus is in the same vein: Know thou first, I lov'd the maid I married; never...first my wedded mistress saw Bestride my threshold. (IV. vl 14-19) Coriolanus usurps the place of the maid Aufidius married, but he does not become feminine....

...confirms the intensity of longing for this meeting as mutual: Let me twine Mine arms about that body, Know thou first, I lov'd the maid I married; never...first my wedded mistress saw Bestride my threshold. (4.5.107-8, 114-19) meaning of the play as the bond with his mother, which, with its nourishing of...

...strength I did Contend against thy valour. Know thou first, I loved the maid I married; never man Sighed truer breath. But that I see thee here, Thou noble...first my wedded mistress saw Bestride my threshold. [ ] Thou hast beat me out Twelve several times, and I have nightly since Dreamt of encounters 'twixt...