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I know no further:
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Let them pronounce the steep Tarpeian death,
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Vagabond exile, raying, pent to linger
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But with a grain a day, I would not buy
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Their mercy at the price of one fair word;
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Nor cheque my courage for what they can give,
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To have't with saying 'Good morrow.'
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SICINIUS:
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For that he has,
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As much as in him lies, from time to time
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Envied against the people, seeking means
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To pluck away their power, as now at last
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Given hostile strokes, and that not in the presence
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Of dreaded justice, but on the ministers
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That do distribute it; in the name o' the people
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And in the power of us the tribunes, we,
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Even from this instant, banish him our city,
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In peril of precipitation
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From off the rock Tarpeian never more
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To enter our Rome gates: i' the people's name,
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I say it shall be so.
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Citizens:
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It shall be so, it shall be so; let him away:
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He's banish'd, and it shall be so.
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COMINIUS:
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Hear me, my masters, and my common friends,--
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SICINIUS:
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He's sentenced; no more hearing.
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COMINIUS:
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Let me speak:
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I have been consul, and can show for Rome
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Her enemies' marks upon me. I do love
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My country's good with a respect more tender,
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More holy and profound, than mine own life,
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My dear wife's estimate, her womb's increase,
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And treasure of my loins; then if I would
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Speak that,--
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SICINIUS:
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We know your drift: speak what?
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BRUTUS:
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There's no more to be said, but he is banish'd,
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As enemy to the people and his country:
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It shall be so.
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Citizens:
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It shall be so, it shall be so.
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CORIOLANUS:
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You common cry of curs! whose breath I hate
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As reek o' the rotten fens, whose loves I prize
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As the dead carcasses of unburied men
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That do corrupt my air, I banish you;
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And here remain with your uncertainty!
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Let every feeble rumour shake your hearts!
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Your enemies, with nodding of their plumes,
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Fan you into despair! Have the power still
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To banish your defenders; till at length
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Your ignorance, which finds not till it feels,
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Making not reservation of yourselves,
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Still your own foes, deliver you as most
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Abated captives to some nation
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That won you without blows! Despising,
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For you, the city, thus I turn my back:
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There is a world elsewhere.
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AEdile:
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The people's enemy is gone, is gone!
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Citizens:
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Our enemy is banish'd! he is gone! Hoo! hoo!
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SICINIUS:
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Go, see him out at gates, and follow him,
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As he hath followed you, with all despite;
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Give him deserved vexation. Let a guard
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Attend us through the city.
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Citizens:
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Come, come; let's see him out at gates; come.
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The gods preserve our noble tribunes! Come.
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CORIOLANUS:
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Come, leave your tears: a brief farewell: the beast
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With many heads butts me away. Nay, mother,
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Where is your ancient courage? you were used
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To say extremity was the trier of spirits;
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That common chances common men could bear;
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That when the sea was calm all boats alike
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Show'd mastership in floating; fortune's blows,
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When most struck home, being gentle wounded, craves
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A noble cunning: you were used to load me
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With precepts that would make invincible
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The heart that conn'd them.
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