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Near the camp of Cominius.
[Enter COMINIUS, as it were in retire, with soldiers]
COMINIUS
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Breathe you my | friends, well fought,| we are /
come off
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Like^Rom|ans, neith|er fool|ish in | our stands,
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Nor cow|ardly in | retire:| believe | me sirs,
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We shall | be charged | again.| Whiles^we | have
struck
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By int|erims | and convey|ing gusts,| we have
heard
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The charg|es of | our friends.| The Rom|an gods,
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Lead their | success|ses, as | we wish | our own,
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That both our powers, with smiling fronts encountering, ????
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May give | you thank|ful sac|rifice.| Thy news?
MESSENGER
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The cit|izens | of Cor|io|li have is|sued,
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And given | to Lar|tius and | to Mar|tius
bat|tle: (hex with prev)
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I saw | our part|y to | their trench|es driven,
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And then | I came | away.
COMINIUS
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Though thou | speakest | truth, (tri with
prev)
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Methinks | thou speakst | not well.| How long |
is it since?
MESSENGER
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Above | an hour,| my lord. \\
COMINIUS
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'Tis not | a mile:| briefly | we heard | their
drums.
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How couldst | thou in | a mile | confound | an
hour,
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And bring | thy news | so late?
MESSENGER
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Spies of the | Volces
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Held me | in chase,| that I | was forced | to
wheel
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Three or four miles | about,| else had | I sir
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Half an | hour since^|brought my re|port.
COMINIUS
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Who's^|yonder,
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That does | appear | as he | were flayed?| O
gods,
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He has | the stamp | of Mar|tius, and | I have
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Before-time seen | him thus.
MARTIUS
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Come I | too* late?
COMINIUS
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The shep|herd knows | not thund|er from | a
tab||or,
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More | than I know | the sound | of Mar|tius'
tongue
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From eve|ry mean|er man.
MARTIUS
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Come I | too* late?
COMINIUS
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Aye, if | you come | not in the | blood of |
others,
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But mant|led in | your own.
MARTIUS
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Oh! Let^me | clip ye
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In arms | as sound,| as when | I wooed | in
heart;
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As mer|ry, as | when our nup|tial day | was done,
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And tap|ers burned | to bed|ward.
COMINIUS
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Flower of || warri|ors, how | is it with |
Titus | Lartius?
MARTIUS
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As with | a man | busied | about | decrees:
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Condemn|ing some | to death,| and some to exile,
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Ransoming | him, or | pitying,| threatening the |
other;
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Holding | Cori|oli | in the name | of Rome,
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Even like a fawn|ing grey|hound^in | the leash,
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To let | him slip | at will.
COMINIUS
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Where is | that slave
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Which told | me they | had beat | you to your |
trenches?
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Where is | he? Call | him hith|er.
MARTIUS
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Let | him alone,
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He did | inform | the truth:| but for our |
gentlemen,
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The com|mon file,|(a plague | tribunes^|for them)
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The mouse | nere* shunned | the cat,| as they |
did budge
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From ras|cals worse | than they.
COMINIUS
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But how | prevailed || you?
MARTIUS
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Will the / time serve | to tell,| I do | not
think:
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Where is | the en|emy?| Are you lords | of the
field?
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If not,| why cease | you till | you are | so?
COMINIUS
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Martius,| we have | at dis|advant|age fought,
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And did | retire | to win | our pur|pose.
MARTIUS
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How || lies their | battle?| Know you | on
which side
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They have placed | their men | of trust?
COMINIUS
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As I guess | Martius,
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Their bands | in the va|ward are | the Ant|iates
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Of their / best trust:| ore them | Aufid|ius,
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Their ve|ry heart | of hope.
MARTIUS
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I do* be|seech you,
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By all | the bat|tles where|in we | have fought,
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By the blood | we have | shed to|gether,|
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By the | vows we have | made |
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To endure | friends, that | you di|rectly | set
me
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Against | Aufid|ius, and | his Ant|iates,
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And that | you not | delay | the pres|ent (but
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Filling | the air | with swords | advanced | and
darts,
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We prove | this ve|ry hour.
COMINIUS
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Though I | could wish,
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You were | conduct|ed to | a gent|le bath,
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And balms | applied | to you,| yet dare | I
never
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Deny | your ask|ing, take | your choice | of
those
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That best | can aid | your ac|tion.
MARTIUS
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Those | are they
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That most | are wil|ling; If | any such | be
here,
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(As it were | sin to | doubt) that | love this |
painting
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Wherein | you see | me smeared,| if an|y fear
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Lesser | his pers|on, than | an ill | report:
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If any / think, brave | death out|weighs bad life,
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And that | his count|ry's dear|er than | himself,
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Let him | alone:| or so | many so | minded,
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Wave thus / to ex|press his | dispo|sition,
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And fol|low Mar|tius. \\
[They all shout and wave their swords, take him up in their arms, and cast
up their caps]
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Oh me | alone,| make you | a sword | of me:
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If these shows be | not out|ward, which | of you
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But is / four Vol|ces? None | of you,| but is
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Able to | bear a|gainst the | great Au|fidius
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A shield,| as hard | as his.| A cert|ain num||ber
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(Though thanks | to all)| must I | select |
from^all:
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The rest | shall bear | the bus|iness in some
oth|er fight ??
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(As cause | will be | obeyed:)| Please you | to
march,
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And four | shall quick|ly draw | out my |
command,
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Which men | are best | inclined.
COMINIUS
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March^on | my fellows:
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Make good | this os|tenta|tion, and | you shall
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Divide | in all,| with us. \\
[Exeunt]