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Coriolanus
[I, 1] |
First Citizen |
7 |
First, you know Caius CORIOLANUS is chief enemy to the people.
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2 |
Coriolanus
[I, 1] |
First Citizen |
13 |
We are accounted poor citizens, the patricians good.
What authority surfeits on would relieve us: if they
would yield us but the superfluity, while it were
wholesome, we might guess they relieved us humanely;
but they think we are too dear: the leanness that
afflicts us, the object of our misery, is as an
inventory to particularise their abundance; our
sufferance is a gain to them Let us revenge this with
our pikes, ere we become rakes: for the gods know I
speak this in hunger for bread, not in thirst for revenge.
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3 |
Coriolanus
[I, 1] |
First Citizen |
49 |
Our business is not unknown to the senate; they have
had inkling this fortnight what we intend to do,
which now we'll show 'em in deeds. They say poor
suitors have strong breaths: they shall know we
have strong arms too.
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4 |
Coriolanus
[I, 1] |
Coriolanus |
193 |
Hang 'em! They say!
They'll sit by the fire, and presume to know
What's done i' the Capitol; who's like to rise,
Who thrives and who declines; side factions
and give out
Conjectural marriages; making parties strong
And feebling such as stand not in their liking
Below their cobbled shoes. They say there's
grain enough!
Would the nobility lay aside their ruth,
And let me use my sword, I'll make a quarry
With thousands of these quarter'd slaves, as high
As I could pick my lance.
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5 |
Coriolanus
[I, 1] |
Coriolanus |
222 |
Five tribunes to defend their vulgar wisdoms,
Of their own choice: one's Junius Brutus,
Sicinius Velutus, and I know not—'Sdeath!
The rabble should have first unroof'd the city,
Ere so prevail'd with me: it will in time
Win upon power and throw forth greater themes
For insurrection's arguing.
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6 |
Coriolanus
[I, 1] |
First Senator |
262 |
Your company to the Capitol; where, I know,
Our greatest friends attend us.
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7 |
Coriolanus
[I, 2] |
First Senator |
312 |
So, your opinion is, Aufidius,
That they of Rome are entered in our counsels
And know how we proceed.
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8 |
Coriolanus
[I, 2] |
Tullus Aufidius |
334 |
Nor did you think it folly
To keep your great pretences veil'd till when
They needs must show themselves; which
in the hatching,
It seem'd, appear'd to Rome. By the discovery.
We shall be shorten'd in our aim, which was
To take in many towns ere almost Rome
Should know we were afoot.
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9 |
Coriolanus
[I, 5] |
Titus Lartius |
601 |
Thou worthiest CORIOLANUS!
[Exit CORIOLANUS]
Go, sound thy trumpet in the market-place;
Call thither all the officers o' the town,
Where they shall know our mind: away!
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10 |
Coriolanus
[I, 6] |
Cominius |
642 |
The shepherd knows not thunder from a tabour
More than I know the sound of CORIOLANUS' tongue
From every meaner man.
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11 |
Coriolanus
[I, 6] |
Coriolanus |
676 |
How lies their battle? know you on which side
They have placed their men of trust?
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12 |
Coriolanus
[I, 9] |
Cominius |
787 |
You shall not be
The grave of your deserving; Rome must know
The value of her own: 'twere a concealment
Worse than a theft, no less than a traducement,
To hide your doings; and to silence that,
Which, to the spire and top of praises vouch'd,
Would seem but modest: therefore, I beseech you
In sign of what you are, not to reward
What you have done—before our army hear me.
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13 |
Coriolanus
[II, 1] |
Sicinius Velutus |
922 |
Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.
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14 |
Coriolanus
[II, 1] |
Menenius Agrippa |
936 |
This is strange now: do you two know how you are
censured here in the city, I mean of us o' the
right-hand file? do you?
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15 |
Coriolanus
[II, 1] |
Menenius Agrippa |
949 |
I know you can do very little alone; for your helps
are many, or else your actions would grow wondrous
single: your abilities are too infant-like for
doing much alone. You talk of pride: O that you
could turn your eyes toward the napes of your necks,
and make but an interior survey of your good selves!
O that you could!
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16 |
Coriolanus
[II, 1] |
Junius Brutus |
981 |
Come, sir, come, we know you well enough.
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17 |
Coriolanus
[II, 1] |
Menenius Agrippa |
982 |
You know neither me, yourselves nor any thing. You
are ambitious for poor knaves' caps and legs: you
wear out a good wholesome forenoon in hearing a
cause between an orange wife and a fosset-seller;
and then rejourn the controversy of three pence to a
second day of audience. When you are hearing a
matter between party and party, if you chance to be
pinched with the colic, you make faces like
mummers; set up the bloody flag against all
patience; and, in roaring for a chamber-pot,
dismiss the controversy bleeding the more entangled
by your hearing: all the peace you make in their
cause is, calling both the parties knaves. You are
a pair of strange ones.
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18 |
Coriolanus
[II, 1] |
Menenius Agrippa |
1069 |
One i' the neck, and two i' the thigh,—there's
nine that I know.
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19 |
Coriolanus
[II, 1] |
Herald |
1084 |
Know, Rome, that all alone CORIOLANUS did fight
Within Corioli gates: where he hath won,
With fame, a name to Caius CORIOLANUS; these
In honour follows Coriolanus.
Welcome to Rome, renowned Coriolanus!
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20 |
Coriolanus
[II, 1] |
Coriolanus |
1094 |
O,
You have, I know, petition'd all the gods
For my prosperity!
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