Coriolanus by William Shakespeare
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page 76 of 166 (45%)
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Nor yoake with him for Tribune
Mene. Let's be calme Com. The People are abus'd: set on, this paltring Becomes not Rome: nor ha's Coriolanus Deseru'd this so dishonor'd Rub, layd falsely I'th' plaine Way of his Merit Corio. Tell me of Corne: this was my speech, And I will speak't againe Mene. Not now, not now Senat. Not in this heat, Sir, now Corio. Now as I liue, I will. My Nobler friends, I craue their pardons: For the mutable ranke-sented Meynie, Let them regard me, as I doe not flatter, And therein behold themselues: I say againe, In soothing them, we nourish 'gainst our Senate The Cockle of Rebellion, Insolence, Sedition, Which we our selues haue plowed for, sow'd, & scatter'd, By mingling them with vs, the honor'd Number, Who lack not Vertue, no, nor Power, but that Which they haue giuen to Beggers Mene. Well, no more |
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