Speeches (Lines) for Messenger in "The Tragedy of Coriolanus"

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# Act / Scene Speech text
1 I / 1
  • Where's Caius CORIOLANUS?
  • Where's Caius CORIOLANUS?
  • Coriolanus. Go, get you home, you fragments!

    Messenger. Where's Caius CORIOLANUS?

2 I / 1
  • The news is, sir, the Volsces are in arms.
  • The news is, sir, the Volsces are in arms.
  • Coriolanus. Here: what's the matter?

    Messenger. The news is, sir, the Volsces are in arms.

3 I / 4
  • They lie in view; but have not spoke as yet.
  • They lie in view; but have not spoke as yet.
  • Coriolanus. Say, has our general met the enemy?

    Messenger. They lie in view; but have not spoke as yet.

4 I / 4
  • Within this mile and half.
  • Within this mile and half.
  • Coriolanus. How far off lie these armies?

    Messenger. Within this mile and half.

5 I / 6
  • The citizens of Corioli have issued,
    And given to TITUS and to CORIOLANUS ba...
  • The citizens of Corioli have issued,
    And given to TITUS and to CORIOLANUS battle:
    I saw our party to their trenches driven,
    And then I came away.
  • Cominius. Breathe you, my friends: well fought;
    we are come off
    Like Romans, neither foolish in our stands,
    Nor cowardly in retire: believe me, sirs,
    We shall be charged again. Whiles we have struck,
    By interims and conveying gusts we have heard
    The charges of our friends. Ye Roman gods!
    Lead their successes as we wish our own,
    That both our powers, with smiling
    fronts encountering,
    May give you thankful sacrifice.
    [Enter a Messenger]
    Thy news?

    Messenger. The citizens of Corioli have issued,
    And given to TITUS and to CORIOLANUS battle:
    I saw our party to their trenches driven,
    And then I came away.

6 I / 6
  • Above an hour, my lord.
  • Above an hour, my lord.
  • Cominius. Though thou speak'st truth,
    Methinks thou speak'st not well.
    How long is't since?

    Messenger. Above an hour, my lord.

7 I / 6
  • Spies of the Volsces
    Held me in chase, that I was forced to wheel
    Three...
  • Spies of the Volsces
    Held me in chase, that I was forced to wheel
    Three or four miles about, else had I, sir,
    Half an hour since brought my report.
  • Cominius. 'Tis not a mile; briefly we heard their drums:
    How couldst thou in a mile confound an hour,
    And bring thy news so late?

    Messenger. Spies of the Volsces
    Held me in chase, that I was forced to wheel
    Three or four miles about, else had I, sir,
    Half an hour since brought my report.

8 II / 1
  • You are sent for to the Capitol. 'Tis thought
    That CORIOLANUS shall be consu...
  • You are sent for to the Capitol. 'Tis thought
    That CORIOLANUS shall be consul:
    I have seen the dumb men throng to see him and
    The blind to bear him speak: matrons flung gloves,
    Ladies and maids their scarfs and handkerchers,
    Upon him as he pass'd: the nobles bended,
    As to Jove's statue, and the commons made
    A shower and thunder with their caps and shouts:
    I never saw the like.
  • Junius Brutus. What's the matter?

    Messenger. You are sent for to the Capitol. 'Tis thought
    That CORIOLANUS shall be consul:
    I have seen the dumb men throng to see him and
    The blind to bear him speak: matrons flung gloves,
    Ladies and maids their scarfs and handkerchers,
    Upon him as he pass'd: the nobles bended,
    As to Jove's statue, and the commons made
    A shower and thunder with their caps and shouts:
    I never saw the like.

9 IV / 6
  • The nobles in great earnestness are going
    All to the senate-house: some news...
  • The nobles in great earnestness are going
    All to the senate-house: some news is come
    That turns their countenances.
  • Junius Brutus. Not possible.

    Messenger. The nobles in great earnestness are going
    All to the senate-house: some news is come
    That turns their countenances.

10 IV / 6
  • Yes, worthy sir,
    The slave's report is seconded; and more,
    More fearful,...
  • Yes, worthy sir,
    The slave's report is seconded; and more,
    More fearful, is deliver'd.
  • Sicinius Velutus. 'Tis this slave;--
    Go whip him, 'fore the people's eyes:--his raising;
    Nothing but his report.

    Messenger. Yes, worthy sir,
    The slave's report is seconded; and more,
    More fearful, is deliver'd.

11 IV / 6
  • It is spoke freely out of many mouths--
    How probable I do not know--that COR...
  • It is spoke freely out of many mouths--
    How probable I do not know--that CORIOLANUS,
    Join'd with Aufidius, leads a power 'gainst Rome,
    And vows revenge as spacious as between
    The young'st and oldest thing.
  • Sicinius Velutus. What more fearful?

    Messenger. It is spoke freely out of many mouths--
    How probable I do not know--that CORIOLANUS,
    Join'd with Aufidius, leads a power 'gainst Rome,
    And vows revenge as spacious as between
    The young'st and oldest thing.

12 V / 4
  • Sir, if you'ld save your life, fly to your house:
    The plebeians have got you...
  • Sir, if you'ld save your life, fly to your house:
    The plebeians have got your fellow-tribune
    And hale him up and down, all swearing, if
    The Roman ladies bring not comfort home,
    They'll give him death by inches.
  • Menenius Agrippa. No, in such a case the gods will not be good unto
    us. When we banished him, we respected not them;
    and, he returning to break our necks, they respect not us.

    Messenger. Sir, if you'ld save your life, fly to your house:
    The plebeians have got your fellow-tribune
    And hale him up and down, all swearing, if
    The Roman ladies bring not comfort home,
    They'll give him death by inches.

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