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CORIOLANUS.

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Roman and Volscian Senators, Patricians, Ediles, Lictors, Soldiers, Citizens, Messengers, Servants to Aufidius, and other Attendants.

SCENE-Partly in Rome, and partly in the Territories of the Volscians and Antiates.

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DOWN, LADIES; LET US SHAME HIM WITH OUR KNEES.

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CORIOLANUS.

ACT I.

SCENE I.-ROME. A Street.

Enter a Company of mutinous CITIZENS, with Staves, Clubs, and other Weapons.

1 Citizen. Before we proceed any further, hear me speak.

Citizens. Speak, speak.

[Several speaking at once.

1 Citizen. You are all resolved rather to die, than to famish?

Citizens. Resolved, resolved.

1 Citizen. First, you know, Caius Marcius is chief enemy to the people.

Citizens. We know't, we know't.

1 Citizen. Let us kill him, and we'll have corn at our own price. Is't a verdict?

Citizens. No more talking on't; let it be done: away,

away.

2 Citizen. One word, good citizens.

1 Citizen. We are accounted poor citizens; the patricians, good: What authority surfeits on, would relieve us; If they would yield us but the superfluity, while it were wholesome, we might guess, they relieved us humanely! but they think, we are too dear: the leanness that afflicts us, the object of our misery, is an inventory to particularize their abundance; our sufferance is a gain to them. Let us revenge this with our pikes, ere

1 Rich.

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