Printed beneath image, lower left: "Painted by G. Hamilton"; lower right: "Engraved by J. Caldwell." Printed in lower margin, on left: "83" and "Vol. ___ Say, my request's unjust,/ And spurn me back: 'But, if it be not so,/ Thou art not honest; and the gods will plague thee,/ That thou restrain'st from me the duty, which/ To a mother's part belongs, __ He turns away./ Down ladies; let us shame hime with our knees./ To his surname Coriolanus 'longs more pride,"; on right: "Than pity to our prayers._ Down: An end;/ This is the last: _ So we will home to Rome,/ And die among our neighbours.__ Nay, behold us:/ This boy, that cannot tell what he would have,/ But kneels, and holds up hands, for fellowship,/ Does reason our petition with more strength/ Than thou hast to deny't.__ Come, let us go."; lower center: "SHAKSPEARE./ Coriolanus./ ACT V, SCENE III./ Coriolanus, Aufutius, Vergilia, Volumnia, Young Alarcius, Valeria, and Attendants/ [another line, mostly illegible]"
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