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A room in CORIOLANUS'S house.
[Enter CORIOLANUS with Patricians]
CORIOLANUS
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Let them | pull all^a|bout mine^|ears, pres|ent
me
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Death on | the wheel,| or at / wild hors|es'
heels,
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Or pile | ten hills / on the | Tarpei|an rock,
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That the pre|cipi|tation | might down stretch
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Below | the beam | of sight;| yet will | I still
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Be thus | to them.
PATRICIAN
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You | do* the nob|ler. ??
CORIOLANUS
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I muse | my moth|er
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Does^not | approve | me furth|er, who | was wont
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To call | them wool|len vas|sals, things |
creat||ed
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To buy | and sell | with groats,| to show bare
heads
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In cong|rega|tions, to yawn,| be still,| and
wond||er,
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When | one but / of my | ordinance | stood^up
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To speak | of peace,| or war.| I talk | of you,
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Why did you | wish me | milder?| Would you | have
me
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False to | my na|ture? Rath|er say,| I play
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The man | I am.
VOLUMNIA
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Oh sir,| sir,| sir,
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I would | have had | you put | your power |
well^on,
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Before | you had worn | it out.
CORIOLANUS
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Let | go.
VOLUMNIA
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You might | have been | enough | the man | you
are,
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With striv|ing less | to be*/ so: les|ser had
been
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The thwart|ings of | your dis|posi|tions, if
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You had / not showed | them how | ye were |
disposed
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Ere they lacked | power to | cross you.|
CORIOLANUS
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Let them hang.
PATRICIAN
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Aye,| and burn too.
[Enter MENENIUS and Senators]
MENENIUS
Come, come, you have been too rough, something too rough: you must return,
and mend it.
FIRST SENATOR
There's no remedy,
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Unless,| by not | so doing,| our good | city
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Cleave in the | midst, and | perish.
VOLUMNIA
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Pray be | counselled;
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I have | a heart | as lit|tle apt | as yours,
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But yet | a brain,| that leads | my use | of
ang||er
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To bet|ter vant|age.
MENENIUS
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Well | said, noble woman: ??
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Before | he should / thus stoop | to the heart,|
but that
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The vi|olent fit | of the time | craves it as |
physic
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For the / whole state;| I would put | mine^arm|or
on,
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Which I | can scarce|ly bear.
CORIOLANUS
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What must | I do?
MENENIUS
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Return | to the tri|bunes*.
CORIOLANUS
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Well,| what then?| What then?
MENENIUS
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Repent,| what you | have spoke. \\
CORIOLANUS
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For them,| I can|not do | it to | the gods,
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Must I | then do it | to them?
VOLUMNIA
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You are too^|absolute,
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Though there|in you can | never | be too noble,
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But when | extrem|ities speak.| I have heard |
you say,
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Honor | and pol|icy*, like | unsev|ered friends,
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In the war | do grow | togeth|er: grant | that,
and tell || me
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In peace,| what each | of them | by the oth|er
lose,
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That they | combine | not there?
CORIOLANUS
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Tush,| tush.
MENENIUS
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A good | demand. \\
VOLUMNIA
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If it | be hon|or in | your wars,| to seem
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The same | you are / not, which | for your / best
ends
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You adopt | your pol|icy*: how | is it less | or
worse
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That it | shall hold | compan|ionship | in peace
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With hon|or, as | in war;| since^that | to both
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It stands | in like | request?
CORIOLANUS
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Why force | you this?
VOLUMNIA
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Because, that ????
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Now it | lies you | on to | speak to the |
people:
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Not by your | own in|struction,| nor by the |
matter
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Which your | heart prompts you,| but with / such
words
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That are | but root|ed in | your tongue;
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Though but | bastards,| and syl|lables
(tetra with prev)
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Of no | allow|ance, to | your bos|om's truth.
T T T
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Now, this no | more dis|honors | you at all,
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Than to | take in | a town | with gent|le words,
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Which else | would put | you to | your for|tune,
and
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The haz|ard of / much blood. \\
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I would | dissem|ble with | my na|ture, where
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My for|tunes and | my friends | at stake,|
required
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I should | do so | in hon|or. I am | in this
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Your wife,| your son:| these sen|ators,| the
nobles,
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And you,| will rath|er show | our gene|ral louts,
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How you can | frown, than | spend a | fawn u|pon
'em,
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For the in|heritance | of their | loves, and
safeguard
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Of what that want | might^ruin.
MENENIUS
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Noble | lady.
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Come^go | with us,/ speak fair:| you may / salve
so,
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Not what | is dange|rous pres|ent, but | the loss
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Of what | is past.
VOLUMNIA
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I prith|ee now,| my son,
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Go to | them, with | this bon|net in | thy hand,
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And thus far hav|ing stretched | it (here | be
with them)
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Thy knee | bussing | the stones:| for in such |
business
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Action is | elo|quence, and the | eyes of the |
ignorant
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More* learn|ed than | the ears,| waving | thy
head,
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Which of|ten thus | correc|ting thy / stout
heart,
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Now hum|ble as | the rip|est mul|berry,
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That will | not hold | the hand|ling: or | say to
them,
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Thou art | their sol|dier, and | being bred | in
broils,
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Hast not | the soft way, which | thou dost |
confess,
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Were fit | for thee | to use,| as they | to
claim,
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In ask|ing their / good loves,| but thou | wilt
frame
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Thyself |(forsooth)| hereaft|er theirs | so far,
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As thou | hast power | and pers|on.
MENENIUS
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This | but done,
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Even | as she / speaks, why | their hearts | were
yours:
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For they | have pard|ons, be|ing asked,| as free,
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As words | to lit|tle pur|pose.
VOLUMNIA
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prith|ee now,
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Go, and be | ruled: al|though I | know thou hadst
| rather
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Follow | thine^en|emy | in a fie|ry gulf,
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Than flat|ter him | in a bower.
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Here is
Co|minius.
COMINIUS
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I have been | in the mark|et-place:| and sir
|'tis fit
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You make | strong par/ty, or | defend | yourself
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By calm/ness, or by^|absence:| all's in | anger.
MENENIUS
Only fair speech.
COMINIUS
I think 'twill serve, if he can thereto frame his spirit.
VOLUMNIA
He must, and will:
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Prithee | now say | you will,| and go | about it.
CORIOLANUS
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Must I go | show them my | unbarbed sconce?
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Must I with | base tongue give | my nob|le heart
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A lie,| that it | must bear | well? I | will do
it:
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Yet were | there but | this sing|le plot,| to
lose
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This mold | of Mar|tius, they | to dust | should
grind it,
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And throw | it against | the wind.| To the
mark|etplace:
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You have put | me now | to such | a part,| which
never
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I shall | discharge | to the life.
COMINIUS
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Come, come, we'll | prompt you. (tri
with prev)
VOLUMNIA
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I prith|ee now | sweet* son,| as thou | hast said
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My prais|es made | thee first | a sol|dier; so
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To have | my praise | for this,| perform | a part
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Thou hast not | done be|fore.
CORIOLANUS
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Well, I | must^do it:
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Away | my dis|posi|tion, and | possess || me
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Some harl|ot's spirit:| my throat | of war | be
turned,
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Which quir|ed with | my drum | into | a pipe,
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Small as | a eun|uch, or | the vir|gin voice
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That ba|ies lulls | asleep:| the smiles | of
knaves
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Tent in my | cheeks, and | schoolboys' tears |
take^up
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The glas|ses of | my sight:| a beg|gar's tongue
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Make^mo|tion through | my lips,| and my / armed
knees
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Who bowed | but in | my stir|rup, bend | like^his
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That hath | received | an alms.| I will / not do
it,
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Lest I | surcease | to hon|or mine^/own truth,
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And by | my bo|dy's ac|tion, teach | my mind
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A most | inher|ent base|ness.
VOLUMNIA
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At thy / choice then:
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To beg | of thee,| it is my | more dis|honor,
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Than thou | of them.| Come^all | to ru|in, let
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Thy moth|er rath|er feel | thy pride,| than fear
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Thy dang|erous stout|ness: for | I mock | at
death
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With as / big heart | as thou.| Do as | thou
list,
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Thy val|iantness | was mine,| thou suckst it |
from me:
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But owe | thy pride | thyself.
CORIOLANUS
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Pray* be | content:
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Mother,| I am / going to | the mark|etplace:
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Chide me | no more.| I'll mount|ebank | their
loves,
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Cog their | hearts | from them, and | come^home |
beloved
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Of all | the trades | in Rome.| Look, I am |
going:
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Commend | me to my | wife, I'll | return |
consul,
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Or nev|er trust | to what | my tongue | can do
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In the way | of flat|tery furth|er.
VOLUMNIA
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Do | your will.
[Exit]
COMINIUS
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Away,| the tri|bunes do at|tend you:| arm
yourself ??
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To ans|wer mild|ly: for | they are | prepared
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With ac|cusa|tions, as | I hear | more strong
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Than are | upon | you yet. \\
CORIOLANUS
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The word | is, mild|ly. Pray | you let | us go,
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Let them | accuse | me by | invent|ion: I
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Will ans|wer in | mine^hon|or.
MENENIUS
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Aye,| but mild||ly.
CORIOLANUS
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Well | mildly | be it | then, mildly.
[Exeunt]