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MENENIUS:
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Fie, fie, fie!
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Roman:
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I know you well, sir, and you know
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me: your name, I think, is Adrian.
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Volsce:
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It is so, sir: truly, I have forgot you.
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Roman:
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I am a Roman; and my services are,
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as you are, against 'em: know you me yet?
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Volsce:
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Nicanor? no.
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Roman:
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The same, sir.
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Volsce:
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You had more beard when I last saw you; but your
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favour is well approved by your tongue. What's the
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news in Rome? I have a note from the Volscian state,
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to find you out there: you have well saved me a
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day's journey.
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Roman:
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There hath been in Rome strange insurrections; the
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people against the senators, patricians, and nobles.
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Volsce:
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Hath been! is it ended, then? Our state thinks not
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so: they are in a most warlike preparation, and
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hope to come upon them in the heat of their division.
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Roman:
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The main blaze of it is past, but a small thing
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would make it flame again: for the nobles receive
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so to heart the banishment of that worthy
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Coriolanus, that they are in a ripe aptness to take
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all power from the people and to pluck from them
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their tribunes for ever. This lies glowing, I can
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tell you, and is almost mature for the violent
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breaking out.
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Volsce:
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Coriolanus banished!
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Roman:
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Banished, sir.
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Volsce:
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You will be welcome with this intelligence, Nicanor.
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Roman:
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The day serves well for them now. I have heard it
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said, the fittest time to corrupt a man's wife is
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when she's fallen out with her husband. Your noble
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Tullus Aufidius will appear well in these wars, his
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great opposer, Coriolanus, being now in no request
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of his country.
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Volsce:
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He cannot choose. I am most fortunate, thus
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accidentally to encounter you: you have ended my
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business, and I will merrily accompany you home.
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Roman:
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I shall, between this and supper, tell you most
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strange things from Rome; all tending to the good of
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their adversaries. Have you an army ready, say you?
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Volsce:
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A most royal one; the centurions and their charges,
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distinctly billeted, already in the entertainment,
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and to be on foot at an hour's warning.
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Roman:
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I am joyful to hear of their readiness, and am the
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man, I think, that shall set them in present action.
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So, sir, heartily well met, and most glad of your company.
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Volsce:
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You take my part from me, sir; I have the most cause
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to be glad of yours.
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Roman:
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Well, let us go together.
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CORIOLANUS:
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A goodly city is this Antium. City,
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'Tis I that made thy widows: many an heir
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Of these fair edifices 'fore my wars
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Have I heard groan and drop: then know me not,
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Lest that thy wives with spits and boys with stones
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In puny battle slay me.
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Save you, sir.
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