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your Gates Ritson (Remarks, p. 142): ‘Your’ cannot be right. If the speaker mean to call the gates Coriolanus's, which would seem very absurd, he ought to say thy. It must be either our or their.—Leo (reading with F4): Menenius cannot call the gates ‘your,’ since Coriolanus afterwards says ‘your,’ l. 90. Perhaps we ought to read yond.—Schmidt retains the folio reading, taking it as an example of the ethical dative, which is, I think, hardly defensible; his second reason is the better: ‘Perhaps Menenius wishes to bring more nearly home to Coriolanus that it is his own (Coriolanus's) native city from which he comes.’— Case gives substantially this same reason for retaining the reading ‘your gates.’— Ed.—Walker (Crit., ii, ch. xlvi.) gives many examples of the confusion between your and our not only in the pages of the Folio, but in works by other writers and printers.
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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