First Roman Citizen
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Quotes spoken by the character First Roman Citizen
We are accounted poor citizens
Read the QuoteWe are accounted poor citizens, the patricians
goodEllipsis. What authority surfeits on would relieve us.
the gods know I speak this in hunger
for bread, not in thirst for revenge
If they would yield us but the superfluity
while it were wholesome, we might guess they
reliev’d us humanely; but they think we are too
dear.
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There was a time when all the body’s members
Read the QuoteMenenius Agrippa
There was a time when all the body’s members
Rebell’d against the belly; thus accus’d it:
That only like a gulf it did remain
I’ th’ midst a’ th’ body, idle and unactive,
Still cupboarding the viand, never bearing
Like labor with the rest, where th’ other instruments
Did see and hear, devise, instruct,
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The Volsces are in arms
Read the QuoteFirst Roman Senator
The Volsces are in arms.
Caius Martius
They have a leader,
Tullus Aufidius, that will put you to’t.
I sin in envying his nobility;
And were I any thing but what I am,
I would wish me only he.
Cominius
You have fought together?
Caius Martius
Were half to half the world by th’ ears,
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And to make us no better thought of, a little help will serve
Read the QuoteFirst Roman Citizen
And to make us no better thought of, a little help will serve; for once we stood up about the corn, he himself stuck not to call us the many-headed multitude.
Third Roman Citizen
We have been call’d so of many, not that our heads are some brown, some black, some abram, some bald, but that our wits are so diversely color’d;
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