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If you have writ your annals true,'t is there
That, like an eagle in a dove-cote, I
Flutter'd your Volscians in Corioli:
Alone I did it. Boy!

— Coriolanus, Act V Scene 6

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KEYWORD: sergeant

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# Result number	Work The work is either a play, poem, or sonnet. The sonnets are treated as single work with 154 parts.	Character Indicates who said the line. If it's a play or sonnet, the character name is "Poet."	Line Shows where the line falls within the work. The numbering is not keyed to any copyrighted numbering system found in a volume of collected works (Arden, Oxford, etc.) The numbering starts at the beginning of the work, and does not restart for each scene.	Text The line's full text, with keywords highlighted within it, unless highlighting has been disabled by the user.
1	Comedy of Errors [IV, 2]	Dromio of Syracuse	1135	O, yes; if any hour meet a sergeant, a' turns back for very fear.
2	Comedy of Errors [IV, 2]	Dromio of Syracuse	1138	Time is a very bankrupt, and owes more than he's worth, to season. Nay, he's a thief too: have you not heard men say That Time comes stealing on by night and day? If Time be in debt and theft, and a sergeant in the way, Hath he not reason to turn back an hour in a day?
3	Comedy of Errors [IV, 3]	Dromio of Syracuse	1180	Ay, sir, the sergeant of the band, he that brings any man to answer it that breaks his band; one that thinks a man always going to bed, and says, 'God give you good rest!'
4	Comedy of Errors [IV, 3]	Dromio of Syracuse	1185	Why, sir, I brought you word an hour since that the bark Expedition put forth to-night; and then were you hindered by the sergeant, to tarry for the hoy Delay. Here are the angels that you sent for to deliver you.
5	Hamlet [V, 2]	Hamlet	3990	Heaven make thee free of it! I follow thee. I am dead, Horatio. Wretched queen, adieu! You that look pale and tremble at this chance, That are but mutes or audience to this act, Had I but time (as this fell sergeant, Death, Is strict in his arrest) O, I could tell you- But let it be. Horatio, I am dead; Thou liv'st; report me and my cause aright To the unsatisfied.
6	Henry VI, Part I [II, 1]	(stage directions)	661	[Enter a Sergeant of a band with two Sentinels]
7	Henry VI, Part I [II, 1]	First Sentinel	666	Sergeant, you shall. [Exit Sergeant] Thus are poor servitors, When others sleep upon their quiet beds, Constrain'd to watch in darkness, rain and cold. [Enter TALBOT, BEDFORD, BURGUNDY, and Forces, with] scaling-ladders, their drums beating a dead march]
8	Henry VIII [I, 1]	Brandon	272	Your office, sergeant; execute it.
9	Macbeth [I, 2]	(stage directions)	16	[Alarum within. Enter DUNCAN, MALCOLM, DONALBAIN,] LENNOX, with Attendants, meeting a bleeding Sergeant]
10	Macbeth [I, 2]	Malcolm	21	This is the sergeant Who like a good and hardy soldier fought 'Gainst my captivity. Hail, brave friend! Say to the king the knowledge of the broil As thou didst leave it.
11	Macbeth [I, 2]	Duncan	64	So well thy words become thee as thy wounds; They smack of honour both. Go get him surgeons. [Exit Sergeant, attended] Who comes here?

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