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I haue sate too long Schmidt (Coriolanus): Here modern editors introduce the stage-direction ‘Rising.’ Yet perhaps ‘sat’ is here, as elsewhere in Shakespeare, equivalent to tarry; the colloquy takes place outside the tent (see l. 221) and is not suited to the mouth of one comfortably seated.

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