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To meet anon, upon your approbation.
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CORIOLANUS:
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Where? at the senate-house?
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SICINIUS:
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There, Coriolanus.
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CORIOLANUS:
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May I change these garments?
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SICINIUS:
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You may, sir.
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CORIOLANUS:
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That I'll straight do; and, knowing myself again,
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Repair to the senate-house.
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MENENIUS:
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I'll keep you company. Will you along?
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BRUTUS:
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We stay here for the people.
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SICINIUS:
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Fare you well.
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He has it now, and by his looks methink
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'Tis warm at 's heart.
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BRUTUS:
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With a proud heart he wore his humble weeds.
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will you dismiss the people?
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SICINIUS:
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How now, my masters! have you chose this man?
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First Citizen:
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He has our voices, sir.
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BRUTUS:
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We pray the gods he may deserve your loves.
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Second Citizen:
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Amen, sir: to my poor unworthy notice,
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He mock'd us when he begg'd our voices.
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Third Citizen:
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Certainly
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He flouted us downright.
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First Citizen:
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No,'tis his kind of speech: he did not mock us.
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Second Citizen:
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Not one amongst us, save yourself, but says
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He used us scornfully: he should have show'd us
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His marks of merit, wounds received for's country.
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SICINIUS:
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Why, so he did, I am sure.
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Citizens:
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No, no; no man saw 'em.
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Third Citizen:
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He said he had wounds, which he could show
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in private;
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And with his hat, thus waving it in scorn,
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'I would be consul,' says he: 'aged custom,
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But by your voices, will not so permit me;
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Your voices therefore.' When we granted that,
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Here was 'I thank you for your voices: thank you:
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Your most sweet voices: now you have left
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your voices,
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I have no further with you.' Was not this mockery?
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SICINIUS:
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Why either were you ignorant to see't,
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Or, seeing it, of such childish friendliness
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To yield your voices?
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BRUTUS:
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Could you not have told him
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As you were lesson'd, when he had no power,
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But was a petty servant to the state,
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He was your enemy, ever spake against
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Your liberties and the charters that you bear
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I' the body of the weal; and now, arriving
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A place of potency and sway o' the state,
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If he should still malignantly remain
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Fast foe to the plebeii, your voices might
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Be curses to yourselves? You should have said
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That as his worthy deeds did claim no less
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Than what he stood for, so his gracious nature
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Would think upon you for your voices and
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Translate his malice towards you into love,
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Standing your friendly lord.
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SICINIUS:
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Thus to have said,
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