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VIRGILIA:
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Yes, certain, there's a letter for you; I saw't.
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MENENIUS:
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A letter for me! it gives me an estate of seven
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years' health; in which time I will make a lip at
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the physician: the most sovereign prescription in
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Galen is but empiricutic, and, to this preservative,
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of no better report than a horse-drench. Is he
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not wounded? he was wont to come home wounded.
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VIRGILIA:
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O, no, no, no.
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VOLUMNIA:
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O, he is wounded; I thank the gods for't.
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MENENIUS:
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So do I too, if it be not too much: brings a'
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victory in his pocket? the wounds become him.
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VOLUMNIA:
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On's brows: Menenius, he comes the third time home
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with the oaken garland.
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MENENIUS:
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Has he disciplined Aufidius soundly?
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VOLUMNIA:
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Titus Lartius writes, they fought together, but
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Aufidius got off.
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MENENIUS:
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And 'twas time for him too, I'll warrant him that:
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an he had stayed by him, I would not have been so
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fidiused for all the chests in Corioli, and the gold
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that's in them. Is the senate possessed of this?
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VOLUMNIA:
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Good ladies, let's go. Yes, yes, yes; the senate
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has letters from the general, wherein he gives my
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son the whole name of the war: he hath in this
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action outdone his former deeds doubly
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VALERIA:
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In troth, there's wondrous things spoke of him.
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MENENIUS:
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Wondrous! ay, I warrant you, and not without his
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true purchasing.
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VIRGILIA:
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The gods grant them true!
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VOLUMNIA:
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True! pow, wow.
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MENENIUS:
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True! I'll be sworn they are true.
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Where is he wounded?
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God save your good worships! Marcius is coming
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home: he has more cause to be proud. Where is he wounded?
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VOLUMNIA:
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I' the shoulder and i' the left arm there will be
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large cicatrices to show the people, when he shall
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stand for his place. He received in the repulse of
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Tarquin seven hurts i' the body.
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MENENIUS:
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One i' the neck, and two i' the thigh,--there's
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nine that I know.
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VOLUMNIA:
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He had, before this last expedition, twenty-five
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wounds upon him.
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MENENIUS:
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Now it's twenty-seven: every gash was an enemy's grave.
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Hark! the trumpets.
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VOLUMNIA:
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These are the ushers of Marcius: before him he
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carries noise, and behind him he leaves tears:
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Death, that dark spirit, in 's nervy arm doth lie;
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Which, being advanced, declines, and then men die.
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Herald:
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Know, Rome, that all alone Marcius did fight
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Within Corioli gates: where he hath won,
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With fame, a name to Caius Marcius; these
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In honour follows Coriolanus.
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Welcome to Rome, renowned Coriolanus!
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All:
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Welcome to Rome, renowned Coriolanus!
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CORIOLANUS:
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No more of this; it does offend my heart:
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Pray now, no more.
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