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Second Citizen:
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Why that way?
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Third Citizen:
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To lose itself in a fog, where being three parts
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melted away with rotten dews, the fourth would return
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for conscience sake, to help to get thee a wife.
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Second Citizen:
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You are never without your tricks: you may, you may.
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Third Citizen:
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Are you all resolved to give your voices? But
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that's no matter, the greater part carries it. I
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say, if he would incline to the people, there was
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never a worthier man.
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Here he comes, and in the gown of humility: mark his
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behavior. We are not to stay all together, but to
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come by him where he stands, by ones, by twos, and
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by threes. He's to make his requests by
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particulars; wherein every one of us has a single
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honour, in giving him our own voices with our own
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tongues: therefore follow me, and I direct you how
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you shall go by him.
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All:
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Content, content.
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MENENIUS:
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O sir, you are not right: have you not known
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The worthiest men have done't?
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CORIOLANUS:
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What must I say?
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'I Pray, sir'--Plague upon't! I cannot bring
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My tongue to such a pace:--'Look, sir, my wounds!
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I got them in my country's service, when
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Some certain of your brethren roar'd and ran
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From the noise of our own drums.'
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MENENIUS:
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O me, the gods!
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You must not speak of that: you must desire them
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To think upon you.
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CORIOLANUS:
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Think upon me! hang 'em!
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I would they would forget me, like the virtues
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Which our divines lose by 'em.
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MENENIUS:
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You'll mar all:
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I'll leave you: pray you, speak to 'em, I pray you,
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In wholesome manner.
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CORIOLANUS:
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Bid them wash their faces
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And keep their teeth clean.
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So, here comes a brace.
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You know the cause, air, of my standing here.
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Third Citizen:
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We do, sir; tell us what hath brought you to't.
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CORIOLANUS:
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Mine own desert.
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Second Citizen:
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Your own desert!
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CORIOLANUS:
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Ay, but not mine own desire.
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Third Citizen:
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How not your own desire?
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CORIOLANUS:
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No, sir,'twas never my desire yet to trouble the
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poor with begging.
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Third Citizen:
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You must think, if we give you any thing, we hope to
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gain by you.
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CORIOLANUS:
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Well then, I pray, your price o' the consulship?
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First Citizen:
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The price is to ask it kindly.
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CORIOLANUS:
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Kindly! Sir, I pray, let me ha't: I have wounds to
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show you, which shall be yours in private. Your
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good voice, sir; what say you?
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Second Citizen:
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You shall ha' it, worthy sir.
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CORIOLANUS:
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A match, sir. There's in all two worthy voices
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