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[Enter SICINIUS and BRUTUS]
BRUTUS
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In this point charge | him home,| that he |
affects
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Tyran|nical power:| if he | evade | us there,
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Enforce | him with his | envy | to the | people,
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And that | the spoil | got on | the Ant|iates
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Was nere | distri|buted.| What, will | he come?
[Enter an Aedile]
AEDILE
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He's com|ing.
BRUTUS
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How | accom|panied?|
AEDILE
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With old | Menen|ius, and | those sen|ators
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That al||ways fav|ored him.
SICINIUS
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Have
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cat|alogue
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Of all | the voi|ces that | we have | procured,|| set down / by the | poll?
AEDILE
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I | have: 'tis | ready.
SICINIUS
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Have you | collec|ted them | by tribes?
AEDILE
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I have.
SICINIUS
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Assem|ble pres|ently | the peo|ple hith|er:
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And | when they hear | me say,| it shall | be so,
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In the right | and strength | of the com|mons: be
| it eith||er
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For death,| for fine,| or ban|ishment*, then |
let them
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If I say fine,| cry Fine; if death,| cry* death,
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Insis|ting on | the old | prerog|ative
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And power | in the truth |of the cause.
AEDILE
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I shall in|form them.
BRUTUS
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And when such time | they have | begun | to cry,
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Let them | not cease, but | with a din |
confused
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Enforce | the pres|ent ex|ecu|tion
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Of what | we chance | to sent|ence.
AEDILE
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Ve|ry well.
SICINIUS
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Make them | be strong,| and rea|dy for | this
hint,
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When we | shall hap | to give it | them.
BRUTUS
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Go | about it,
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Put him | to chol|er straight,| he hath | been
used
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Ever | to con|quer, and | to have | his worth
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Of con|tradic|tion. Being | once^chafed,| he
cannot
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Be reined | again | to tempe|rance, then | he
speaks
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What's in | his heart,| and that | is there |
which looks
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With us | to break | his neck.
SICINIUS
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Well, here^|he comes.
[Enter CORIOLANUS, MENENIUS, and COMINIUS, with Senators and Patricians]
MENENIUS
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Calmly,| I do | beseech | you. \\
CORIOLANUS
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Aye, as | an ost|ler, that / fourth poor|est
piece
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Will bear | the knave | by the / volume:|
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The hon|ored gods ????
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Keep Rome in safe|ty, and the | chairs of |
justice
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Supplied | with worth|y men,| plant love among us
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Through our | large temp/les with | the shows of
peace,
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And not | our streets | with war.
FIRST SENATOR
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Amen,| amen.
MENENIUS
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A nob|le wish. \\
[Enter AEdile, with Citizens]
SICINIUS
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Draw | near | ye | people.|
AEDILE
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List to your | tribunes*.| Audience:
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Peace I
say.
CORIOLANUS
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First hear me | speak.
TRIBUNES
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Well*, | say: Peace ho.
CORIOLANUS
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Shall I be | charged no furth|er than this |
present?
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Must^all | deter|mine here?
SICINIUS
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I do | demand,
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If you | submit | you to the | people's | voices,
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Allow | their of|ficers,| and are | content
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To suf|fer law|ful cens|ure for / such faults
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As shall | be proved | upon | you?
CORIOLANUS
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I am | content.
MENENIUS
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Lo cit/izens,| he says | he is | content.
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The warlike serv|ice he has done,| consid|er;
think
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Upon | the wounds | his bo|dy bears,| which show
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Like graves in | the ho|ly church|yard.
CORIOLANUS
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Scratches | with bri|ers, scars | to move
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Laughter | only.
MENENIUS
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Con|sider | further: (tetra with prev)
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That when | he speaks | not like a cit|izen,
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You find | him like | a sol|dier: do | not^take
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His rough|er ac|cents for | mali|cious sounds:
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But as | I say,| such as be|come a | soldier,
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Rather | than en|vy you.
COMINIUS
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Well* well,| no more.
CORIOLANUS
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What is the | matter, ????
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That be|ing passed | for cons|ul with / full
voice:
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I am so | dishon|ored, that | the ve|ry hour
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You take | it off | again.
SICINIUS
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Answer | to us.
CORIOLANUS
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Say then:| 'tis true,| I ought so. \\
SICINIUS
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We charge | you, that | you have | contrived | to
take
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From Rome | all* seas|oned of|fice, and | to wind
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Yourself | into | a power | tyran|nical,
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For which | you are | a trait|or to | the
peo||ple.
CORIOLANUS
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How?| Traitor?
MENENIUS
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Nay*| temperate|ly: your | promise.
CORIOLANUS
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The fires | in the low|est hell,| fold in the |
people:
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Call me their | traitor,| Thou in|jurious |
tribune*,
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Within | thine^eyes | sat^twen|ty thous|and
deaths
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In thy / hands clutched:| as ma|ny mil|lions in
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Thy ly|ing tongue,| both num/bers. I | would say
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Thou lie|st un|to thee,| with a voice | as free,
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As I | do pray | the gods.
SICINIUS
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Mark you this | people?
CITIZENS
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To the | rock, to | the rock | with him.
SICINIUS
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Peace:
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We need | not put | new mat/ter to | his charge:
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What you | have seen | him do,| and heard | him
speak:
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Beating | your of|ficers,| cursing | yourselves,
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Oppos|ing laws | with strokes,| and here |
defy||ing
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Those | whose great | power must | try him.
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Even || this so | criminal,| and in
| such^cap|ital kind,
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Deserves | the extre|mest death. \\
BRUTUS
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But since / he hath | served | well for |
Rome.
CORIOLANUS
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What do you | prate of | service.
BRUTUS
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I talk | of that,| that know it. (tri with
prev)
CORIOLANUS
You?
MENENIUS
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Is this | the prom|ise that | you made | your
moth||er?
COMINIUS
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Know,| I pray | you.
CORIOLANUS
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I'll | know no | further:
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Let them | pronounce | the steep | Tarpei|an
death,
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Vagabond^|exile, flee|ing, pent | to ling||er
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But | with a grain | a day,| I would | not buy
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Their mer|cy, at | the price | of one fair word,
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Nor check | my cour|age for | what they | can
give,
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To have it | with saying,| good* mor|row.
SICINIUS
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For | that he has
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(As much | as in | him lies)| from time | to time
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Envied | against | the peo|ple; seek|ing means
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To pluck | away | their power:| as now | at last,
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Given hos|tile* strokes,| and that | not in the |
presence
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Of drea|ded just|ice, but | on the min|isters
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That do | distrib|ute it.| In the name | of the
peo||ple,
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And | in the power | of us | the tri|bunes*, we
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(Eene from this^|instant*)| banish | him our |
city
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In per|il of | precip|ita|tion
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From off | the rock | Tarpei|an, nev|er more
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To ent|er our / Rome gates.| in the peo|ple's
name,
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I say | it shall | be so. \\
CITIZENS
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It shall | be so,| it shall | be so:| let him ||
away:
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He's ban|ished, and | it shall | be so.
COMINIUS
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Hear me | my mast|ers, and | my com|mon friends.
SICINIUS
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He's sent|enced: no | more* hear|ing.
COMINIUS
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Let | me speak:
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I have | been cons|ul, and | can show | for Rome
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Her en|emies'^marks | upon | me. I | do love
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My count|ry's good,| with a re|spect more*|
tender,
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More ho|ly, and | profound,| than mine^/own life,
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My dear | wife's est/imate,| her womb's |
increase,
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And treas|ure of | my loins:| then if | I would
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Speak that.
SICINIUS
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We | know
your | drift. Speak what?
BRUTUS
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There's no | more to be | said, but | he is |
banished
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As en|emy | to the peo|ple, and | his coun||try:
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It | shall be so. \\
CITIZENS
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It shall | be so,| it shall | be so.|
CORIOLANUS
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You com|mon cry | of curs,| whose^breath | I
hate,
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As reek | of the rot|ten fens:| whose^loves | I
prize,
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As the / dead car|casses | of unbur|ied men,
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That do | corrupt | my air:| I ban|ish you,
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And here | remain | with your | uncert|ainty.
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Let eve|ry feeb|le rum|or shake | your hearts:
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Your en|emies,| with nod|ding of | their plumes
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Fan you | into de|spair: Have | the pow|er still
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To ban|ish your | defend|ers, till | at length
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Your ig|norance |(which finds | not till | it
feels,
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Making | not res|erva|tion of | yourselves,
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Still your | own foes) deliv|er you
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As most || abat|ed cap|tives, to |
some^na|tion
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That won you without blows, despising
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For you | the ci|ty. Thus | I turn | my back;
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There is a | world elsewhere. \\
[Exeunt CORIOLANUS, COMINIUS, MENENIUS, Senators, and Patricians]
AEDILE
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The peo|ple's en|emy | is gone,| is gone.
CITIZENS
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Our en|emy is | banished,| he is gone:| Hoo,^oo.
[Shouting, and throwing up their caps]
SICINIUS
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Go see | him out | at gates,| and fol|low him
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As he | hath fol|lowed you,| with all | despite
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Give him | deserved | vexa|tion. Let | a guard
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Attend | us through | the ci|ty.
CITIZENS
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Come,| come,|| let's see | him out | at gates,|
come:|
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The gods | preserve | our nob|le tri|bunes*,
come.
[Exeunt]