Reading The Tragedie of Coriolanus — William Shakespeare

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Shall? O God! but most vnwise Patricians: why

You graue, but wreaklesse Senators, haue you thus

Giuen Hidra heere to choose an Officer,

That with his peremptory Shall, being but

The horne, and noise o'th'Monsters, wants not spirit

To say, hee'l turne your Current in a ditch,

And make your Channell his? If he haue power,

Then vale your Ignorance: If none, awake

Your dangerous Lenity: If you are Learn'd,

Be not as common Fooles; if you are not,

Let them haue Cushions by you. You are Plebeians,

If they be Senators: and they are no lesse,

When both your voices blended, the great'st taste

Most pallates theirs. They choose their Magistrate,

And such a one as he, who puts his Shall,

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