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1

Coriolanus
[I, 1]

First Citizen

3

Before we proceed any further, hear me speak.

2

Coriolanus
[I, 1]

First Citizen

85

Well, I'll hear it, sir: yet you must not think to
fob off our disgrace with a tale: but, an 't please
you, deliver.

3

Coriolanus
[I, 1]

Menenius Agrippa

88

There was a time when all the body's members
Rebell'd against the belly, thus accused it:
That only like a gulf it did remain
I' the midst o' the body, idle and unactive,
Still cupboarding the viand, never bearing
Like labour with the rest, where the other instruments
Did see and hear, devise, instruct, walk, feel,
And, mutually participate, did minister
Unto the appetite and affection common
Of the whole body. The belly answer'd—

4

Coriolanus
[I, 1]

Menenius Agrippa

120

I will tell you
If you'll bestow a small—of what you have little—
Patience awhile, you'll hear the belly's answer.

5

Coriolanus
[I, 1]

Sicinius Velutus

305

Let's hence, and hear
How the dispatch is made, and in what fashion,
More than his singularity, he goes
Upon this present action.

6

Coriolanus
[I, 3]

Volumnia

382

Then his good report should have been my son; I
therein would have found issue. Hear me profess
sincerely: had I a dozen sons, each in my love
alike and none less dear than thine and my good
CORIOLANUS, I had rather had eleven die nobly for their
country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action.

7

Coriolanus
[I, 3]

Volumnia

391

Indeed, you shall not.
Methinks I hear hither your husband's drum,
See him pluck Aufidius down by the hair,
As children from a bear, the Volsces shunning him:
Methinks I see him stamp thus, and call thus:
'Come on, you cowards! you were got in fear,
Though you were born in Rome:' his bloody brow
With his mail'd hand then wiping, forth he goes,
Like to a harvest-man that's task'd to mow
Or all or lose his hire.

8

Coriolanus
[I, 3]

Volumnia

420

He had rather see the swords, and hear a drum, than
look upon his school-master.

9

Coriolanus
[I, 4]

Coriolanus

491

Then shall we hear their 'larum, and they ours.
Now, Mars, I prithee, make us quick in work,
That we with smoking swords may march from hence,
To help our fielded friends! Come, blow thy blast.
[They sound a parley. Enter two Senators with others]
on the walls]
Tutus Aufidius, is he within your walls?

10

Coriolanus
[I, 9]

Cominius

763

If I should tell thee o'er this thy day's work,
Thou'ldst not believe thy deeds: but I'll report it
Where senators shall mingle tears with smiles,
Where great patricians shall attend and shrug,
I' the end admire, where ladies shall be frighted,
And, gladly quaked, hear more; where the
dull tribunes,
That, with the fusty plebeians, hate thine honours,
Shall say against their hearts 'We thank the gods
Our Rome hath such a soldier.'
Yet camest thou to a morsel of this feast,
Having fully dined before.
[Enter TITUS LARTIUS, with his power,]
from the pursuit]

11

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.

12

Coriolanus
[I, 9]

Coriolanus

796

I have some wounds upon me, and they smart
To hear themselves remember'd.

13

Coriolanus
[II, 2]

Menenius Agrippa

1296

That's off, that's off;
I would you rather had been silent. Please you
To hear Cominius speak?

14

Coriolanus
[II, 2]

First Senator

1307

Sit, Coriolanus; never shame to hear
What you have nobly done.

15

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.

16

Coriolanus
[II, 2]

Coriolanus

1320

I had rather have one scratch my head i' the sun
When the alarum were struck than idly sit
To hear my nothings monster'd.

17

Coriolanus
[II, 2]

Menenius Agrippa

1324

Masters of the people,
Your multiplying spawn how can he flatter—
That's thousand to one good one—when you now see
He had rather venture all his limbs for honour
Than one on's ears to hear it? Proceed, Cominius.

18

Coriolanus
[III, 1]

Coriolanus

1841

Shall remain!
Hear you this Triton of the minnows? mark you
His absolute 'shall'?

19

Coriolanus
[III, 1]

Sicinius Velutus

1967

Hear me, people; peace!

20

Coriolanus
[III, 1]

Citizens

1968

Let's hear our tribune: peace Speak, speak, speak.