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I beseech you, peace, or if you'll ask
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Coriolanus

I beseech you, peace,or if you'll ask, remember this before, the thing I haveforsworn to...

I beseech you, peace,
or if you'll ask, remember this before, the thing I have
forsworn to grant may never be held
by you denials

Full Transcript

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I beseech you, peace, or if you'll ask,
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remember this before,
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the thing I have forsworn to grant
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may never be held by you denials.
Duration
13 seconds
Views
16
Timestamp in Movie
02:03:50
Uploaded
Nov 03, 2025
Genres
drama
Production
Stratford Festival,Ontario Creates,Melbar Entertainment Group,CBC

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Movie Summary

Roman War hero Martius, alias Coriolanus, is named consul, Rome's highest public office. But the warrior is no politician - and he faces unaccustomed enemies who fan the flames of populism against him, with catastrophic results.
Do not bid me dismiss my soldiers, - Coriolanus 00:07
Do not bid me dismiss my soldiers,
Tell me not wherein I seem unnatural. - Coriolanus 00:06
Tell me not wherein I seem unnatural.
Desire not to allay my rages and revenges - Coriolanus 00:06
Desire not to allay my rages and revenges
You have said you will not grant us anything, - Coriolanus 00:07
You have said you will not grant us anything,
Yet we will ask, - Coriolanus 00:12
Yet we will ask,
Aufidius, and you Volsces, mark, - Coriolanus 00:09
Aufidius, and you Volsces, mark,
Should we be silent and not speak, - Coriolanus 00:10
Should we be silent and not speak,
Think with thyself - Coriolanus 00:21
Think with thyself
Making the mother, wife and child to see the son, - Coriolanus 00:10
Making the mother, wife and child to see the son,
We must find an evident calamity, - Coriolanus 00:08
We must find an evident calamity,
For either thou must, like a foreign recreant, - Coriolanus 00:16
For either thou must, like a foreign recreant,
For myself, son, - Coriolanus 00:10
For myself, son,
If I cannot persuade thee rather to show a noble grace - Coriolanus 00:21
If I cannot persuade thee rather to show a noble grace
Aye, and mine, that brought you forth this boy, - Coriolanus 00:06
Aye, and mine, that brought you forth this boy,
If it were so that our request did tend to save the Romans, - Coriolanus 00:14
If it were so that our request did tend to save the Romans,
No, our suit is that you reconcile them. - Coriolanus 00:08
No, our suit is that you reconcile them.
While the Volsces may say, this mercy we have showed, - Coriolanus 00:15
While the Volsces may say, this mercy we have showed,
Thou knowest, great son, - Coriolanus 00:17
Thou knowest, great son,
Whose chronicle thus writ, the man was noble, - Coriolanus 00:13
Whose chronicle thus writ, the man was noble,
Thinkest thou it honorable for a noble man - Coriolanus 00:09
Thinkest thou it honorable for a noble man