Wash my fierce hand in his heart."
With the fullest conviction I read for 'brother's guard' household hearth; for that was the very place where he did find him. "He got him up straight to the chimney hearth, and sate him down" (North's Plutarch, p. 232). Besides, we never hear that Aufidius had a brother; and it should be under, not upon, the guard; a man is, or stands, on his own not on another's guard. In Rich. II. iv. 1 we have "under his household roof;" and household hearth occurs in Campbell's Gertrude of Wyoming, iii. 17.
Act II.
Sc. 1.
"What harm can your beesome conspectuities glean out of this character?"
Regarding 'beesome' as a corruption, the editors have all adopted Theobald's reading, bisson, which occurs in Hamlet (ii. 2) in the sense of blinding. Mr. Singer, however, quotes from Huloet's Dictionary "Blynde or Beasomborne, cæcigenus," which proves the text to be right.
"For these in honour follows Coriolanus."