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Work The work is either a play, poem, or sonnet. The sonnets are treated as single work with 154 parts.

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1

Coriolanus
[I, 1]

First Citizen

139

Ay, sir; well, well.

2

Coriolanus
[I, 6]

Cominius

647

Ay, if you come not in the blood of others,
But mantled in your own.

3

Coriolanus
[II, 1]

Menenius Agrippa

925

Ay, to devour him; as the hungry plebeians would the
noble CORIOLANUS.

4

Coriolanus
[II, 1]

Volumnia

1020

Ay, worthy Menenius; and with most prosperous
approbation.

5

Coriolanus
[II, 1]

Menenius Agrippa

1056

Wondrous! ay, I warrant you, and not without his
true purchasing.

6

Coriolanus
[II, 1]

Coriolanus

1103

My gracious silence, hail!
Wouldst thou have laugh'd had I come coffin'd home,
That weep'st to see me triumph? Ay, my dear,
Such eyes the widows in Corioli wear,
And mothers that lack sons.

7

Coriolanus
[II, 3]

Coriolanus

1500

Ay, but not mine own desire.

8

Coriolanus
[II, 3]

Junius Brutus

1688

Ay, spare us not. Say we read lectures to you.
How youngly he began to serve his country,
How long continued, and what stock he springs of,
The noble house o' the Marcians, from whence came
That Ancus CORIOLANUS, Numa's daughter's son,
Who, after great Hostilius, here was king;
Of the same house Publius and Quintus were,
That our beat water brought by conduits hither;
And [Censorinus,] nobly named so,
Twice being [by the people chosen] censor,
Was his great ancestor.

9

Coriolanus
[III, 2]

Patrician

2192

Ay, and burn too.

10

Coriolanus
[III, 2]

Menenius Agrippa

2337

Ay, but mildly.

11

Coriolanus
[III, 3]

Coriolanus

2385

Ay, as an ostler, that for the poorest piece
Will bear the knave by the volume. The honour'd gods
Keep Rome in safety, and the chairs of justice
Supplied with worthy men! plant love among 's!
Throng our large temples with the shows of peace,
And not our streets with war!

12

Coriolanus
[IV, 2]

Volumnia

2615

Ay, fool; is that a shame? Note but this fool.
Was not a man my father? Hadst thou foxship
To banish him that struck more blows for Rome
Than thou hast spoken words?

13

Coriolanus
[IV, 5]

Coriolanus

2797

Ay.

14

Coriolanus
[IV, 5]

Coriolanus

2804

Ay; 'tis an honester service than to meddle with thy
mistress. Thou pratest, and pratest; serve with thy
trencher, hence!

15

Coriolanus
[IV, 5]

First Servingman

2939

Ay, and for an assault too.

16

Coriolanus
[IV, 5]

First Servingman

2999

Ay, and it makes men hate one another.

17

Coriolanus
[IV, 6]

Cominius

3143

Ay; and you'll look pale
Before you find it other. All the regions
Do smilingly revolt; and who resist
Are mock'd for valiant ignorance,
And perish constant fools. Who is't can blame him?
Your enemies and his find something in him.

18

Coriolanus
[IV, 6]

Cominius

3199

O, ay, what else?

19

Coriolanus
[V, 3]

Virgilia

3633

Ay, and mine,
That brought you forth this boy, to keep your name
Living to time.

20

Coriolanus
[V, 3]

Coriolanus

3719

Ay, by and by;
[To VOLUMNIA, VIRGILIA, &c]
But we will drink together; and you shall bear
A better witness back than words, which we,
On like conditions, will have counter-seal'd.
Come, enter with us. Ladies, you deserve
To have a temple built you: all the swords
In Italy, and her confederate arms,
Could not have made this peace.