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Or Jove for his power to thunder. His heart's his mouth: What his breast forges, that his tongue must vent;

And, being angry,does forget that ever He heard the name of death.

CORIOLANUS AT ANTIUM.

Coriolanus. - Hear'st thou, Mars!
Aufidius-Name not the god,
thou boy of tears-
Ha!

Cor.
Auf. No more.

Cor.-Measureless liar, thou hast
made my heart

Too great for what contains it. Boy! O slave!

Pardon me, lords, 'tis the first time that ever

I was forced to scold. Your judg ments, my grave lords, Must give this cur the lie: and his own notion

(Who wears my stripes impressed on him; that must bear

My beating to his grave) shall join to thrust

The lie unto him.

Cut me to pieces, Volsces; men and lads,

Stain all your edges on me.— Boy! False hound!

If you have writ your annals true, 'tis there,

That like an eagle in a dove-cote, I Fluttered your Volsces in Corioli: Alone I did it. - Boy!

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List his discourse of war, and you shall hear

A fearful battle rendered you in music:

Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose,

Familiar as his garter; that, when he speaks,

The air, a chartered libertine, is still,

And the mute wonder lurketh in men's ears,

To steal his sweet and honeyed sentences;

So that the air and practic part of life

Must be the mistress to this theoric: Which is a wonder, how his grace should glean it,

Since his addiction was to courses vain:

His companies unlettered, rude, and shallow;

His hours filled up with riots, banquets, sports,

And never noted in him any study, Any retirement, any sequestration From open haunts and popularity. SHAKSPEARE.

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ON LUCY, COUNTESS OF BEDFORD.

THIS morning, timely rapt with holy fire,

I thought to form unto my zealous Muse

What kind of creature I could most desire

To honor, serve, and love, as poets use. I meant to make her fair, and free, and wise,

Of greatest blood, and yet more good than great;

I meant the Day-Star should not brighter rise,

Nor lend like influence from his lucent seat.

I meant she should be courteous, facile, sweet,

Hating that solemn vice of great

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