The word mankind is used maliciously by the first speaker, and taken perversely by the second. A mankind woman is a woman with the roughness of a man, and, in an aggravated sense, a woman ferocious, violent, and eager to shed blood. In this sense Sicinius asks Volumnia, if she be mankind. She takes mankind for a human creature, and accordingly cries out,
—Note but this, fool.
Was not a man my father?
IV.ii.18 (394,7) Hadst thou foxship] Hadst thou, fool as thou art, mean cunning enough to banish Coriolanus?
IV.iii.9 (395,7) but your favour is well appear'd by your tongue] [W: well appeal'd] I should read,
—is well affear'd,
That is, strengthened, attested, a word used by our authour.
My title is affear'd. Macbeth.
To repeal may be to bring to remembrance, but appeal has another meaning.
IV.iii.48 (397,8) already in the entertainment] That is, tho' not actually encamped, yet already in pay. To entertain an army is to take them into pay.