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1

Coriolanus
[I, 1]

(stage directions)

43

[Enter MENENIUS AGRIPPA]

2

Coriolanus
[I, 1]

Second Citizen

44

Worthy Menenius Agrippa; one that hath always loved
the people.

3

Coriolanus
[II, 1]

(stage directions)

916

[Enter MENENIUS with the two Tribunes of the people,]
SICINIUS and BRUTUS.

4

Coriolanus
[II, 1]

Sicinius Velutus

960

Menenius, you are known well enough too.

5

Coriolanus
[II, 1]

Volumnia

1017

Honourable Menenius, my boy CORIOLANUS approaches; for
the love of Juno, let's go.

6

Coriolanus
[II, 1]

Volumnia

1020

Ay, worthy Menenius; and with most prosperous
approbation.

7

Coriolanus
[II, 1]

Volumnia

1042

On's brows: Menenius, he comes the third time home
with the oaken garland.

8

Coriolanus
[II, 1]

Coriolanus

1125

Menenius ever, ever.

9

Coriolanus
[II, 2]

First Officer

1259

No more of him; he is a worthy man: make way, they
are coming.
[A sennet. Enter, with actors before them, COMINIUS]
the consul, MENENIUS, CORIOLANUS, Senators,
SICINIUS and BRUTUS. The Senators take their
places; the Tribunes take their Places by
themselves. CORIOLANUS stands]

10

Coriolanus
[II, 3]

Third Citizen

1457

Are you all resolved to give your voices? But
that's no matter, the greater part carries it. I
say, if he would incline to the people, there was
never a worthier man.
[Enter CORIOLANUS in a gown of humility,]
with MENENIUS]
Here he comes, and in the gown of humility: mark his
behavior. We are not to stay all together, but to
come by him where he stands, by ones, by twos, and
by threes. He's to make his requests by
particulars; wherein every one of us has a single
honour, in giving him our own voices with our own
tongues: therefore follow me, and I direct you how
you shall go by him.

11

Coriolanus
[II, 3]

(stage directions)

1573

[Re-enter MENENIUS, with BRUTUS and SICINIUS]

12

Coriolanus
[II, 3]

Sicinius Velutus

1590

Fare you well.
[Exeunt CORIOLANUS and MENENIUS]
He has it now, and by his looks methink
'Tis warm at 's heart.

13

Coriolanus
[III, 1]

(stage directions)

1724

[Cornets. Enter CORIOLANUS, MENENIUS, all the]
Gentry, COMINIUS, TITUS LARTIUS, and other Senators]

14

Coriolanus
[III, 1]

Sicinius Velutus

2149

Noble Menenius,
Be you then as the people's officer.
Masters, lay down your weapons.

15

Coriolanus
[III, 2]

(stage directions)

2193

[Enter MENENIUS and Senators]

16

Coriolanus
[III, 3]

Aedile

2350

With old Menenius, and those senators
That always favour'd him.

17

Coriolanus
[III, 3]

Sicinius Velutus

2381

Well, here he comes.
[Enter CORIOLANUS, MENENIUS, and COMINIUS,]
with Senators and Patricians]

18

Coriolanus
[III, 3]

Coriolanus

2492

You common cry of curs! whose breath I hate
As reek o' the rotten fens, whose loves I prize
As the dead carcasses of unburied men
That do corrupt my air, I banish you;
And here remain with your uncertainty!
Let every feeble rumour shake your hearts!
Your enemies, with nodding of their plumes,
Fan you into despair! Have the power still
To banish your defenders; till at length
Your ignorance, which finds not till it feels,
Making not reservation of yourselves,
Still your own foes, deliver you as most
Abated captives to some nation
That won you without blows! Despising,
For you, the city, thus I turn my back:
There is a world elsewhere.
[Exeunt CORIOLANUS, COMINIUS, MENENIUS, Senators,]
and Patricians]

19

Coriolanus
[IV, 3]

(stage directions)

2520

[Enter CORIOLANUS, VOLUMNIA, VIRGILIA, MENENIUS,]
COMINIUS, with the young Nobility of Rome]

20

Coriolanus
[IV, 3]

Coriolanus

2537

What, what, what!
I shall be loved when I am lack'd. Nay, mother.
Resume that spirit, when you were wont to say,
If you had been the wife of Hercules,
Six of his labours you'ld have done, and saved
Your husband so much sweat. Cominius,
Droop not; adieu. Farewell, my wife, my mother:
I'll do well yet. Thou old and true Menenius,
Thy tears are salter than a younger man's,
And venomous to thine eyes. My sometime general,
I have seen thee stem, and thou hast oft beheld
Heart-hardening spectacles; tell these sad women
'Tis fond to wail inevitable strokes,
As 'tis to laugh at 'em. My mother, you wot well
My hazards still have been your solace: and
Believe't not lightly—though I go alone,
Like to a lonely dragon, that his fen
Makes fear'd and talk'd of more than seen—your son
Will or exceed the common or be caught
With cautelous baits and practise.