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Coriolanus
[I, 3] |
Volumnia |
363 |
I pray you, daughter, sing; or express yourself in a
more comfortable sort: if my son were my husband, I
should freelier rejoice in that absence wherein he
won honour than in the embracements of his bed where
he would show most love. When yet he was but
tender-bodied and the only son of my womb, when
youth with comeliness plucked all gaze his way, when
for a day of kings' entreaties a mother should not
sell him an hour from her beholding, I, considering
how honour would become such a person. that it was
no better than picture-like to hang by the wall, if
renown made it not stir, was pleased to let him seek
danger where he was like to find fame. To a cruel
war I sent him; from whence he returned, his brows
bound with oak. I tell thee, daughter, I sprang not
more in joy at first hearing he was a man-child
than now in first seeing he had proved himself a
man.
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2 |
Coriolanus
[II, 3] |
Junius Brutus |
1688 |
Ay, spare us not. Say we read lectures to you.
How youngly he began to serve his country,
How long continued, and what stock he springs of,
The noble house o' the Marcians, from whence came
That Ancus CORIOLANUS, Numa's daughter's son,
Who, after great Hostilius, here was king;
Of the same house Publius and Quintus were,
That our beat water brought by conduits hither;
And [Censorinus,] nobly named so,
Twice being [by the people chosen] censor,
Was his great ancestor.
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3 |
Coriolanus
[IV, 5] |
First Servingman |
2761 |
What would you have, friend? whence are you?
Here's no place for you: pray, go to the door.
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4 |
Coriolanus
[IV, 5] |
Second Servingman |
2767 |
Whence are you, sir? Has the porter his eyes in his
head; that he gives entrance to such companions?
Pray, get you out.
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5 |
Coriolanus
[IV, 5] |
Tullus Aufidius |
2813 |
Whence comest thou? what wouldst thou? thy name?
Why speak'st not? speak, man: what's thy name?
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6 |
Coriolanus
[V, 2] |
First Senator |
3369 |
Stay: whence are you?
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7 |
Coriolanus
[V, 2] |
First Senator |
3374 |
From whence?
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8 |
Coriolanus
[V, 2] |
Menenius Agrippa |
3386 |
I tell thee, fellow,
The general is my lover: I have been
The book of his good acts, whence men have read
His name unparallel'd, haply amplified;
For I have ever verified my friends,
Of whom he's chief, with all the size that verity
Would without lapsing suffer: nay, sometimes,
Like to a bowl upon a subtle ground,
I have tumbled past the throw; and in his praise
Have almost stamp'd the leasing: therefore, fellow,
I must have leave to pass.
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