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VIRGILIA:
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O heavens! O heavens!
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CORIOLANUS:
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Nay! prithee, woman,--
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VOLUMNIA:
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Now the red pestilence strike all trades in Rome,
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And occupations perish!
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CORIOLANUS:
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What, what, what!
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I shall be loved when I am lack'd. Nay, mother.
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Resume that spirit, when you were wont to say,
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If you had been the wife of Hercules,
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Six of his labours you'ld have done, and saved
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Your husband so much sweat. Cominius,
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Droop not; adieu. Farewell, my wife, my mother:
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I'll do well yet. Thou old and true Menenius,
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Thy tears are salter than a younger man's,
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And venomous to thine eyes. My sometime general,
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I have seen thee stem, and thou hast oft beheld
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Heart-hardening spectacles; tell these sad women
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'Tis fond to wail inevitable strokes,
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As 'tis to laugh at 'em. My mother, you wot well
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My hazards still have been your solace: and
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Believe't not lightly--though I go alone,
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Like to a lonely dragon, that his fen
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Makes fear'd and talk'd of more than seen--your son
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Will or exceed the common or be caught
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With cautelous baits and practise.
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VOLUMNIA:
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My first son.
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Whither wilt thou go? Take good Cominius
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With thee awhile: determine on some course,
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More than a wild exposture to each chance
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That starts i' the way before thee.
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CORIOLANUS:
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O the gods!
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COMINIUS:
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I'll follow thee a month, devise with thee
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Where thou shalt rest, that thou mayst hear of us
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And we of thee: so if the time thrust forth
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A cause for thy repeal, we shall not send
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O'er the vast world to seek a single man,
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And lose advantage, which doth ever cool
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I' the absence of the needer.
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CORIOLANUS:
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Fare ye well:
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Thou hast years upon thee; and thou art too full
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Of the wars' surfeits, to go rove with one
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That's yet unbruised: bring me but out at gate.
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Come, my sweet wife, my dearest mother, and
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My friends of noble touch, when I am forth,
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Bid me farewell, and smile. I pray you, come.
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While I remain above the ground, you shall
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Hear from me still, and never of me aught
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But what is like me formerly.
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MENENIUS:
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That's worthily
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As any ear can hear. Come, let's not weep.
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If I could shake off but one seven years
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From these old arms and legs, by the good gods,
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I'ld with thee every foot.
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CORIOLANUS:
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Give me thy hand: Come.
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SICINIUS:
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Bid them all home; he's gone, and we'll no further.
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The nobility are vex'd, whom we see have sided
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In his behalf.
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BRUTUS:
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Now we have shown our power,
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Let us seem humbler after it is done
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Than when it was a-doing.
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SICINIUS:
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Bid them home:
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Say their great enemy is gone, and they
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Stand in their ancient strength.
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BRUTUS:
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Dismiss them home.
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Here comes his mother.
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SICINIUS:
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Let's not meet her.
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BRUTUS:
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Why?
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SICINIUS:
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