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Stop,
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Or all will fall in broil.
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CORIOLANUS:
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Are these your herd?
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Must these have voices, that can yield them now
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And straight disclaim their tongues? What are
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your offices?
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You being their mouths, why rule you not their teeth?
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Have you not set them on?
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MENENIUS:
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Be calm, be calm.
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CORIOLANUS:
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It is a purposed thing, and grows by plot,
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To curb the will of the nobility:
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Suffer't, and live with such as cannot rule
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Nor ever will be ruled.
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BRUTUS:
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Call't not a plot:
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The people cry you mock'd them, and of late,
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When corn was given them gratis, you repined;
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Scandal'd the suppliants for the people, call'd them
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Time-pleasers, flatterers, foes to nobleness.
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CORIOLANUS:
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Why, this was known before.
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BRUTUS:
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Not to them all.
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CORIOLANUS:
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Have you inform'd them sithence?
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BRUTUS:
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How! I inform them!
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CORIOLANUS:
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You are like to do such business.
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BRUTUS:
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Not unlike,
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Each way, to better yours.
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CORIOLANUS:
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Why then should I be consul? By yond clouds,
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Let me deserve so ill as you, and make me
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Your fellow tribune.
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SICINIUS:
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You show too much of that
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For which the people stir: if you will pass
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To where you are bound, you must inquire your way,
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Which you are out of, with a gentler spirit,
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Or never be so noble as a consul,
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Nor yoke with him for tribune.
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MENENIUS:
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Let's be calm.
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COMINIUS:
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The people are abused; set on. This paltering
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Becomes not Rome, nor has Coriolanus
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Deserved this so dishonour'd rub, laid falsely
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I' the plain way of his merit.
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CORIOLANUS:
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Tell me of corn!
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This was my speech, and I will speak't again--
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MENENIUS:
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Not now, not now.
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First Senator:
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Not in this heat, sir, now.
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CORIOLANUS:
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Now, as I live, I will. My nobler friends,
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I crave their pardons:
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For the mutable, rank-scented many, let them
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Regard me as I do not flatter, and
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Therein behold themselves: I say again,
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In soothing them, we nourish 'gainst our senate
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The cockle of rebellion, insolence, sedition,
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Which we ourselves have plough'd for, sow'd,
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and scatter'd,
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By mingling them with us, the honour'd number,
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Who lack not virtue, no, nor power, but that
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Which they have given to beggars.
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MENENIUS:
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Well, no more.
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First Senator:
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No more words, we beseech you.
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CORIOLANUS:
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How! no more!
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