The Tragedy of Coriolanus (role extract)

The Tragedy of Coriolanus

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First Officer. Come, come, they are almost here. How many stand	2.2.1
for consulships?	2.2.2
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First Officer. That's a brave fellow; but he's vengeance proud, and	2.2.5
loves not the common people.	2.2.6
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First Officer. If he did not care whether he had their love or no,	2.2.16
he waved indifferently 'twixt doing them neither	2.2.17
good nor harm: but he seeks their hate with greater	2.2.18
devotion than can render it him; and leaves	2.2.19
nothing undone that may fully discover him their	2.2.20
opposite. Now, to seem to affect the malice and	2.2.21
displeasure of the people is as bad as that which he	2.2.22
dislikes, to flatter them for their love.	2.2.23
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First Officer. No more of him; he is a worthy man: make way, they	2.2.35
are coming.	2.2.36
A sennet. Enter, with actors before them, COMINIUS the consul, MENENIUS, CORIOLANUS, Senators, SICINIUS and BRUTUS. The Senators take their places; the Tribunes take their Places by themselves. CORIOLANUS stands
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