Speeches (Lines) for First Citizen
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Before we proceed any further, hear me speak. |
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You are all resolved rather to die than to famish? |
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First, you know Caius CORIOLANUS is chief enemy to the people. |
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Let us kill him, and we'll have corn at our own price.
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We are accounted poor citizens, the patricians good.
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Very well; and could be content to give him good
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I say unto you, what he hath done famously, he did
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If I must not, I need not be barren of accusations;
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Soft! who comes here? |
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He's one honest enough: would all the rest were so! |
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Our business is not unknown to the senate; they have
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We cannot, sir, we are undone already. |
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Care for us! True, indeed! They ne'er cared for us
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Well, I'll hear it, sir: yet you must not think to
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Well, sir, what answer made the belly? |
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Your belly's answer? What!
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Should by the cormorant belly be restrain'd,
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The former agents, if they did complain,
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Ye're long about it. |
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Ay, sir; well, well. |
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It was an answer: how apply you this? |
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I the great toe! why the great toe? |
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We have ever your good word. |
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Once, if he do require our voices, we ought not to deny him. |
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And to make us no better thought of, a little help
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The price is to ask it kindly. |
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He has our voices, sir. |
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No,'tis his kind of speech: he did not mock us. |
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I twice five hundred and their friends to piece 'em. |
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He shall well know
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Ourselves, our wives, and children, on our knees,
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For mine own part,
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The gods be good to us! Come, masters, let's home.
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