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...Coriolanus.
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Only that name remains.
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The cruelty and envy of the people
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who have all forsook me hath devoured the rest,
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and suffered me by the voice of slaves to be whooped out of Rome.
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Now this extremity hath brought me to thy hearth,
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not out of hope, mistake me not, to save my life,
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for if I had feared death, of all men in the world
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I would have avoided thee.
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But, in mere spite, to be full quit of those, my banishers,
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stand I before thee here.
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I will fight against my cankered country