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From women's eyes this doctrine I derive:
They sparkle still the right Promethean fire;
They are the books, the arts, the academes,
That show, contain, and nourish all the world.

— Love's Labour's Lost, Act IV Scene 3

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# Result number	Work The work is either a play, poem, or sonnet. The sonnets are treated as single work with 154 parts.	Character Indicates who said the line. If it's a play or sonnet, the character name is "Poet."	Line Shows where the line falls within the work. The numbering is not keyed to any copyrighted numbering system found in a volume of collected works (Arden, Oxford, etc.) The numbering starts at the beginning of the work, and does not restart for each scene.	Text The line's full text, with keywords highlighted within it, unless highlighting has been disabled by the user.
1	Coriolanus [II, 1]	Junius Brutus	1181	It was his word: O, he would miss it rather Than carry it but by the suit of the gentry to him, And the desire of the nobles.
2	Coriolanus [II, 2]	Menenius Agrippa	1266	Having determined of the Volsces and To send for Titus TITUS, it remains, As the main point of this our after-meeting, To gratify his noble service that Hath thus stood for his country: therefore, please you, Most reverend and grave elders, to desire The present consul, and last general In our well-found successes, to report A little of that worthy work perform'd By Caius CORIOLANUS Coriolanus, whom We met here both to thank and to remember With honours like himself.
3	Coriolanus [II, 3]	Menenius Agrippa	1481	O me, the gods! You must not speak of that: you must desire them To think upon you.
4	Coriolanus [II, 3]	Coriolanus	1500	Ay, but not mine own desire.
5	Coriolanus [II, 3]	Third Citizen	1501	How not your own desire?
6	Coriolanus [II, 3]	Coriolanus	1502	No, sir,'twas never my desire yet to trouble the poor with begging.
7	Coriolanus [III, 1]	Menenius Agrippa	2156	I'll bring him to you. [To the Senators] Let me desire your company: he must come, Or what is worst will follow.
8	Coriolanus [V, 3]	Coriolanus	3582	I beseech you, peace: Or, if you'ld ask, remember this before: The thing I have forsworn to grant may never Be held by you denials. Do not bid me Dismiss my soldiers, or capitulate Again with Rome's mechanics: tell me not Wherein I seem unnatural: desire not To ally my rages and revenges with Your colder reasons.

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