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FIRST SENATOR

Amen, amen.

MENENIUS
A noble wish.

Enter the Aedile, with the Plebeians.

SICINIUS
Draw near, ye people.

AEDILE
List to your Tribunes. Audience! Peace, I say! [40]

CORIOLANUS
First, hear me speak.

BOTH TRIBUNES
Well, say. Peace ho!

CORIOLANUS

Shall I be charged no further than this present?
Must all determine here?

SICINIUS
I do demand
If you submit you to the people’s voices,

Allow their officers, and are content [45]
To suffer lawful censure for such faults
As shall be proved upon you?

CORIOLANUS
I am content.

MENENIUS
Lo, citizens, he says he is content.
The warlike service he has done, consider. Think