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The Roman camp.
[Flourish. Alarum. A retreat is sounded. Flourish. Enter, from one side,
COMINIUS with the Romans; from the other side, MARTIUS, with his arm in a
scarf]
COMINIUS
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If I | should tell | thee ore | this thy / day's
work,
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Thou'd^not | believe | thy deeds:| but I'll |
report it,
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Where se|nators | shall min|gle tears | with
smiles,
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Where great | patri|cians shall | attend,| and
shrug,
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In the end | admire:| where la|dies shall be |
frighted,
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And glad|ly quaked,| hear* more:| where the dull
|*tribunes,
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That with the | fusty ple|beians,| hate thine |
honors,
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Shall say | against | their hearts,| we thank |
the gods
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Our Rome | hath such | a sol|dier. |
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Yet camst | thou to | a mor|sel of | this feast,
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Having | fully | dined be|fore.
[Enter TITUS LARTIUS, with his power, from the pursuit]
LARTIUS
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Oh | general:
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Here is | the steed,| we the | capa|rison:
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Hadst^thou | beheld--
MARTIUS
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Pray now, no | more:
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My || mother,| who has | a char|ter to | extol
|| her blood,
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When she | does praise | me, grieves | me:
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I || have done | as you | have done,| that's
what | I can,
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Induced | as you | have been,| that's for my |
country:
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He that | has but | effec|ted his / good will
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Hath o|vertane | mine act. \\
COMINIUS
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You shall | not be | the grave | of your |
deser||ving,
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Rome | must^know | the val|ue of | her own:
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'Twere a | conceal|ment worse | than a theft,
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No less | than a tra|ducement, ????
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To hide | your do|ings, and | to si|lence that,
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Which to | the spire,| and top | of prai|ses
vouched,
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Would seem | but mo|dest: there|fore I be|seech
you,
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In sign | of what | you are,| not to | reward
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What you have | done, be|fore our | army | hear
me.
MARTIUS
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I have | some wounds | upon | me, and | they
smart
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To hear | themselves | remem|bered.
COMINIUS
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Should | they not:
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Well might^|they fes|ter against | ingra|titude,
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And tent | themselves | with death:| Of all | the
hor||ses,
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Where|of we have / tane good,| and good* store |
of all,
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The trea|sure in this | field a|chieved and |
city,
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We ren|der you | the tenth,| to be / tane forth,
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Before | the com|mon dis|tribu|tion, at
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Your on|ly choice.
MARTIUS
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I thank | you ge|neral:
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But can|not make | my heart | consent | to take
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A bribe,| to pay | my sword:| I do | refuse it,
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And stand | upon | my com|mon part | with those,
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That have | beheld | the do|ing. \\
[A long flourish. They all cry 'Martius! Martius!' cast up their caps and
lances: COMINIUS and LARTIUS stand bare]
MARTIUS
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May these / same in|struments,| which you |
profane,
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Never sound more;| when drums | and trum|pets
shall
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In the field | prove flat/terers, let | courts
and | cities || be
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Made | all of | false-faced soo|thing:
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When || steel grows soft | as the pa|rasite's |
silk,
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Let him | be made | an o|verture | for the wars:
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No more | I say,| for that | I have | not washed
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My nose | that bled,| or foiled | some de|bile
wretch,
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Which with|out^note,| here's^ma|ny else | have
done,
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You shout me forth in acclamations hyperbolical;
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As if | I loved | my little | should be | dieted
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In prai|ses sauced | with lies.
COMINIUS
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Too* mo|dest are you:
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More cruel / to your | good re|port than |
grateful
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To us, that | give you | truly:| by your |
patience,
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If against | yourself | you be | incensed,| we'll
put || you
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(Like^one | that means | his pro|per harm)| in
ma|nacles,
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Then rea|son safe|ly with | you. There|fore be |
it known, (hex with prev)
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As to us,| to all | the world,| that Cai|us
Mar||tius
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Wears | this war's | garland:| in token | of the
which,
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My no|ble steed,| known to the | camp, I | give
him,
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With all | his trim | belong|ing; and | from this
time,
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For what | he did | before | Cori|oli,| call him,
(hex with prev)
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With all | the applause | and cla|mor of | the
host,
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Marcus | Caius | Cori|ola|nus.
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Bear the | addi|tion no|bly e|ver.
[Flourish. Trumpets sound, and drums]
ALL
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Marcus | Caius | Cori|ola|nus.
CORIOLANUS
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I will | go wash: \\
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And when | my face | is fair,| you shall |
perceive
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Whether I | blush, or | no: how|beit, I | thank
you.
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I mean | to stride | your steed,| and at / all
times
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To un|dercrest | your good | addi|tion
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To || the fair|ness of | my power.
COMINIUS
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So, to | our tent;
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Where^ere | we do | repose | us, we | will write
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To Rome | of our | success:| You* Ti|tus
Lar||tius,
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Must | to Cori|oli* back,| send^us | to Rome
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The best,| with whom | we may | artic|ulate,
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For their / own good,| and ours.
LARTIUS
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I shall,| my lord.
CORIOLANUS
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The gods | begin | to mock | me:|
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I that | now re|fused most prince|ly gifts,
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Am bound | to beg | of my / lord ge|neral.
COMINIUS
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Take it,| 'tis yours:| what is it? \\
CORIOLANUS
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I some|time^lay | here in | Cori|oli
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At a / poor man's | house: he | used me | kindly,
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He cried | to me:| I saw | him pri|soner:
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But then | Aufi|dius was | within | my view,
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And wrath | orewhelmed | my pi|ty: I re/quest you
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To give | my poor host free|dom.
COMINIUS
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Oh^/well begged:
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Were he | the but|cher of | my son,| he should
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Be free,| as is the | wind: de|liver him,| Titus.
LARTIUS
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Martius,| his name.
CORIOLANUS
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By Ju|piter | forgot:
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I am wea|ry, yea,| my me|mory is | tired:
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Have we no | wine here?
COMINIUS
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Go | we to | our tent:
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The blood | upon | your vi|sage dries,| 'tis time
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It should | be looked | to: come. \\
[Exeunt]