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Coriolanus
[I, 3] |
Valeria |
422 |
O' my word, the father's son: I'll swear,'tis a
very pretty boy. O' my troth, I looked upon him o'
Wednesday half an hour together: has such a
confirmed countenance. I saw him run after a gilded
butterfly: and when he caught it, he let it go
again; and after it again; and over and over he
comes, and again; catched it again; or whether his
fall enraged him, or how 'twas, he did so set his
teeth and tear it; O, I warrant it, how he mammocked
it!
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2 |
Coriolanus
[I, 6] |
Cominius |
609 |
Breathe you, my friends: well fought;
we are come off
Like Romans, neither foolish in our stands,
Nor cowardly in retire: believe me, sirs,
We shall be charged again. Whiles we have struck,
By interims and conveying gusts we have heard
The charges of our friends. Ye Roman gods!
Lead their successes as we wish our own,
That both our powers, with smiling
fronts encountering,
May give you thankful sacrifice.
[Enter a Messenger]
Thy news?
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3 |
Coriolanus
[I, 10] |
Tullus Aufidius |
881 |
Condition!
I would I were a Roman; for I cannot,
Being a Volsce, be that I am. Condition!
What good condition can a treaty find
I' the part that is at mercy? Five times, CORIOLANUS,
I have fought with thee: so often hast thou beat me,
And wouldst do so, I think, should we encounter
As often as we eat. By the elements,
If e'er again I meet him beard to beard,
He's mine, or I am his: mine emulation
Hath not that honour in't it had; for where
I thought to crush him in an equal force,
True sword to sword, I'll potch at him some way
Or wrath or craft may get him.
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4 |
Coriolanus
[II, 2] |
Coriolanus |
1309 |
Your horror's pardon:
I had rather have my wounds to heal again
Than hear say how I got them.
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5 |
Coriolanus
[II, 3] |
Second Citizen |
1515 |
An 'twere to give again,—but 'tis no matter.
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6 |
Coriolanus
[II, 3] |
Coriolanus |
1586 |
That I'll straight do; and, knowing myself again,
Repair to the senate-house.
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7 |
Coriolanus
[II, 3] |
Sicinius Velutus |
1655 |
Have you
Ere now denied the asker? and now again
Of him that did not ask, but mock, bestow
Your sued-for tongues?
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8 |
Coriolanus
[III, 1] |
Coriolanus |
1729 |
So then the Volsces stand but as at first,
Ready, when time shall prompt them, to make road.
Upon's again.
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9 |
Coriolanus
[III, 1] |
Cominius |
1732 |
They are worn, lord consul, so,
That we shall hardly in our ages see
Their banners wave again.
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10 |
Coriolanus
[III, 1] |
Coriolanus |
1809 |
Now, as I live, I will. My nobler friends,
I crave their pardons:
For the mutable, rank-scented many, let them
Regard me as I do not flatter, and
Therein behold themselves: I say again,
In soothing them, we nourish 'gainst our senate
The cockle of rebellion, insolence, sedition,
Which we ourselves have plough'd for, sow'd,
and scatter'd,
By mingling them with us, the honour'd number,
Who lack not virtue, no, nor power, but that
Which they have given to beggars.
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11 |
Coriolanus
[III, 3] |
Junius Brutus |
2373 |
Go about it.
[Exit AEdile]
Put him to choler straight: he hath been used
Ever to conquer, and to have his worth
Of contradiction: being once chafed, he cannot
Be rein'd again to temperance; then he speaks
What's in his heart; and that is there which looks
With us to break his neck.
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12 |
Coriolanus
[III, 3] |
Coriolanus |
2419 |
What is the matter
That being pass'd for consul with full voice,
I am so dishonour'd that the very hour
You take it off again?
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13 |
Coriolanus
[IV, 3] |
Roman |
2681 |
The main blaze of it is past, but a small thing
would make it flame again: for the nobles receive
so to heart the banishment of that worthy
Coriolanus, that they are in a ripe aptness to take
all power from the people and to pluck from them
their tribunes for ever. This lies glowing, I can
tell you, and is almost mature for the violent
breaking out.
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14 |
Coriolanus
[IV, 5] |
Third Servingman |
2979 |
But when they shall see, sir, his crest up again,
and the man in blood, they will out of their
burrows, like conies after rain, and revel all with
him.
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15 |
Coriolanus
[IV, 5] |
Second Servingman |
2988 |
Why, then we shall have a stirring world again.
This peace is nothing, but to rust iron, increase
tailors, and breed ballad-makers.
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16 |
Coriolanus
[IV, 6] |
Menenius Agrippa |
3063 |
'Tis Aufidius,
Who, hearing of our CORIOLANUS' banishment,
Thrusts forth his horns again into the world;
Which were inshell'd when CORIOLANUS stood for Rome,
And durst not once peep out.
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17 |
Coriolanus
[IV, 6] |
Junius Brutus |
3100 |
Raised only, that the weaker sort may wish
Good CORIOLANUS home again.
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18 |
Coriolanus
[IV, 6] |
Cominius |
3170 |
But I fear
They'll roar him in again. Tullus Aufidius,
The second name of men, obeys his points
As if he were his officer: desperation
Is all the policy, strength and defence,
That Rome can make against them.
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19 |
Coriolanus
[V, 2] |
Second Senator |
3472 |
'Tis a spell, you see, of much power: you know the
way home again.
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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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