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Runne reeking o're . . . spoyle W. A. Wright: Coriolanus is compared to a stream of reeking blood, which marked the course of his slaughtering sword. ‘Spoil’ appears here to be a term of the chase as it is in Jul. Cæs., III, i, 200, ‘Here thy hunters stand Sign'd in thy spoil,’ etc.—Bayfield (p. 195): Editors correct by beginning the second line with ‘'Twere,’ but ‘if’ and ‘'twere’ get intolerable emphasis and the rhythm is ruined. Clearly the second line must begin with ‘It were,’ so that the words may run, ‘as | if it | were a per | petual | spoil.’
William Shakespeare. Horace Howard Furness, Jr., A. B.; Litt. D. The Tragedie of Coriolanus. Philadelphia and London. J. B. Lippincott Company.
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