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Coriolanus
[I, 1]

Coriolanus

193

Hang 'em! They say!
They'll sit by the fire, and presume to know
What's done i' the Capitol; who's like to rise,
Who thrives and who declines; side factions
and give out
Conjectural marriages; making parties strong
And feebling such as stand not in their liking
Below their cobbled shoes. They say there's
grain enough!
Would the nobility lay aside their ruth,
And let me use my sword, I'll make a quarry
With thousands of these quarter'd slaves, as high
As I could pick my lance.

2

Coriolanus
[I, 3]

Valeria

435

Come, lay aside your stitchery; I must have you play
the idle husewife with me this afternoon.

3

Coriolanus
[I, 9]

Coriolanus

860

I sometime lay here in Corioli
At a poor man's house; he used me kindly:
He cried to me; I saw him prisoner;
But then Aufidius was within my view,
And wrath o'erwhelm'd my pity: I request you
To give my poor host freedom.

4

Coriolanus
[II, 2]

(stage directions)

1224

[Enter two Officers, to lay cushions]

5

Coriolanus
[II, 3]

Junius Brutus

1678

Lay
A fault on us, your tribunes; that we laboured,
No impediment between, but that you must
Cast your election on him.

6

Coriolanus
[II, 3]

Sicinius Velutus

1682

Say, you chose him
More after our commandment than as guided
By your own true affections, and that your minds,
Preoccupied with what you rather must do
Than what you should, made you against the grain
To voice him consul: lay the fault on us.

7

Coriolanus
[III, 1]

First Senator

1974

To unbuild the city and to lay all flat.

8

Coriolanus
[III, 1]

Cominius

1982

That is the way to lay the city flat;
To bring the roof to the foundation,
And bury all, which yet distinctly ranges,
In heaps and piles of ruin.

9

Coriolanus
[III, 1]

Sicinius Velutus

1992

Therefore lay hold of him;
Bear him to the rock Tarpeian, and from thence
Into destruction cast him.

10

Coriolanus
[III, 1]

Junius Brutus

2004

Sir, those cold ways,
That seem like prudent helps, are very poisonous
Where the disease is violent. Lay hands upon him,
And bear him to the rock.

11

Coriolanus
[III, 1]

Junius Brutus

2013

Lay hands upon him.

12

Coriolanus
[III, 1]

Sicinius Velutus

2149

Noble Menenius,
Be you then as the people's officer.
Masters, lay down your weapons.

13

Coriolanus
[IV, 6]

Second Messenger

3107

You are sent for to the senate:
A fearful army, led by Caius CORIOLANUS
Associated with Aufidius, rages
Upon our territories; and have already
O'erborne their way, consumed with fire, and took
What lay before them.