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Rome. Before a gate of the city.
[Enter CORIOLANUS, VOLUMNIA, VIRGILIA, MENENIUS, COMINIUS, with the young
Nobility of Rome]
CORIOLANUS
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Come^leave | your tears:| a brief | farewell:|
the beast
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With ma|ny heads | butts me a|way. Nay*| mother,
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Where is | your an|cient cour|age? You | were
used
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To say,| extrem|ity | was the trier | of spirits,
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That com|mon chan|ces. Com|mon men | could bear,
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That when | the sea | was calm,| all boats alike
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Showed mast/ership^|in float|ing. For|tune's
blows,
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When most | struck^home,| being gent|le woun|ded,
craves
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A nob|le cun|ning. you | were used | to load ||
me
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With pre|cepts that | would make | invin|cible
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The heart | that conned | them.
VIRGILIA
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Oh | heavens! O heavens!
CORIOLANUS
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Nay, I | prithee | woman. \\
VOLUMNIA
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Now* the red | pesti|lence^strike | all trades
in Rome,
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And oc|cupa|tions perish.
CORIOLANUS
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What, what, what:
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I shall be | loved when | I am | lacked.
Nay*| mother, ??
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Resume | that spirit,| when you | were wont | to
say,
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If you | had been | the wife | of Her|cules,
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Six of | his lab|ors you'd | have done,| and
saved
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Your hus|band so | much^sweat.| Comin|ius,
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Droop || not, a|dieu: Fare|well my | wife, my |
mother,
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I'll do | well^yet.| Thou old | and true |
Menen||ius,
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Thy | tears are | salter | than a young|er man's,
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And venomous to thine^eyes. My (sometime)
general, ????
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I have seen | thee stem,| and thou | hast oft |
beheld
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Heart-hardening spectacles. Tell these* sad
women, ????
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'Tis fond | to wail | inev|itab|le strokes,
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As 'tis to laugh at 'em. My mother, you wot
well ????
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My haz|ards still | have been | your sol|ace, and
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Believe it | not light/ly, though | I go | alone,
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Like to | a lone|ly drag|on, that | his fen
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Makes^feared,| and talked | of more | than seen:|
your son
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Will or | exceed | the com|mon, or | be caught
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With caut|elous baits | and prac|tice.
VOLUMNIA
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My / first son,
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Whither | wilt thou | go? Take^|good Co|minius
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With thee | awhile:| deter|mine on / some course
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More than | a wild | expos|ture, to | each^chance
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That starts | in the way | before | thee.
CORIOLANUS
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O | the gods!
COMINIUS
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I'll fol|low thee | a month,| devise | with thee
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Where thou | shalt rest,| that thou | mayst hear
| of us,
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And we | of thee.| So if the | time thrust forth
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A cause | for thy | repeal,| we shall | not send
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Ore the / vast world,| to seek | a sing|le man,
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And lose | advant|age, which | doth ev|er cool
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In the ab|sence^of | the need|er.
CORIOLANUS
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Fare | ye well:
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Thou hast | years u|pon thee,| and thou art |
too* full
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Of the / wars' surf|eits, to / go rove | with one
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That's yet | unbruised:| bring me | but out | at
gate.
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Come my | sweet* wife,| my dear|est moth|er, and
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My friends | of nob|le touch:| when I | am forth,
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Bid me | farewell,| and smile.| I pray | you
come:
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While I | remain | above | the ground,| you shall
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Hear from | me still,| and nev|er of | me aught
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But what is | like me | formerly*.
MENENIUS
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That's^worth|ily
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As an|y ear | can hear.| Come, let's^|not weep.
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If I | could shake | off but | one seven years
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From these / old arms | and legs,| by the / good
gods,
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I'd with | thee, eve|ry foot.
CORIOLANUS
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Give me | thy hand,|| come. \\
[Exeunt]