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MENENIUS:
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It then remains
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That you do speak to the people.
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CORIOLANUS:
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I do beseech you,
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Let me o'erleap that custom, for I cannot
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Put on the gown, stand naked and entreat them,
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For my wounds' sake, to give their suffrage: please you
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That I may pass this doing.
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SICINIUS:
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Sir, the people
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Must have their voices; neither will they bate
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One jot of ceremony.
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MENENIUS:
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Put them not to't:
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Pray you, go fit you to the custom and
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Take to you, as your predecessors have,
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Your honour with your form.
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CORIOLANUS:
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It is apart
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That I shall blush in acting, and might well
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Be taken from the people.
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BRUTUS:
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Mark you that?
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CORIOLANUS:
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To brag unto them, thus I did, and thus;
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Show them the unaching scars which I should hide,
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As if I had received them for the hire
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Of their breath only!
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MENENIUS:
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Do not stand upon't.
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We recommend to you, tribunes of the people,
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Our purpose to them: and to our noble consul
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Wish we all joy and honour.
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Senators:
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To Coriolanus come all joy and honour!
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BRUTUS:
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You see how he intends to use the people.
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SICINIUS:
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May they perceive's intent! He will require them,
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As if he did contemn what he requested
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Should be in them to give.
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BRUTUS:
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Come, we'll inform them
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Of our proceedings here: on the marketplace,
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I know, they do attend us.
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First Citizen:
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Once, if he do require our voices, we ought not to deny him.
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Second Citizen:
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We may, sir, if we will.
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Third Citizen:
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We have power in ourselves to do it, but it is a
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power that we have no power to do; for if he show us
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his wounds and tell us his deeds, we are to put our
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tongues into those wounds and speak for them; so, if
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he tell us his noble deeds, we must also tell him
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our noble acceptance of them. Ingratitude is
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monstrous, and for the multitude to be ingrateful,
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were to make a monster of the multitude: of the
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which we being members, should bring ourselves to be
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monstrous members.
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First Citizen:
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And to make us no better thought of, a little help
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will serve; for once we stood up about the corn, he
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himself stuck not to call us the many-headed multitude.
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Third Citizen:
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We have been called so of many; not that our heads
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are some brown, some black, some auburn, some bald,
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but that our wits are so diversely coloured: and
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truly I think if all our wits were to issue out of
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one skull, they would fly east, west, north, south,
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and their consent of one direct way should be at
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once to all the points o' the compass.
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Second Citizen:
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Think you so? Which way do you judge my wit would
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fly?
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Third Citizen:
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Nay, your wit will not so soon out as another man's
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will;'tis strongly wedged up in a block-head, but
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if it were at liberty, 'twould, sure, southward.
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