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The same. A street near the gate.
[Enter SICINIUS, BRUTUS, and an Aedile]
SICINIUS
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Bid them | all home,| he's gone:| and we'll | no
furth|er.
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The nobil|ity | are vexed,| whom we | see have |
sided (hex with prev)
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In his | behalf.
BRUTUS
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Now we | have shown | our power,
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Let us | seem hum|bler aft|er it | is done,
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Than when | it was | a-do|ing. \\
SICINIUS
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Bid them | home: say*| their great | enemy*| is gone,
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And they,| stand in | their an|cient strength.|
BRUTUS
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Dismiss | them home.| Here comes | his moth|er.
SICINIUS
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Let's not meet | her.
BRUTUS
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Why?
SICINIUS
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They say | she's mad.
BRUTUS
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They have | tane note / of us:| keep^on | your
way.
[Enter VOLUMNIA, VIRGILIA, and MENENIUS]
VOLUMNIA
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Oh | you're well met: \\
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The hoard|ed plague | of the gods | requite |
your love.
MENENIUS
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Peace, peace, be | not so loud.|
VOLUMNIA
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If that | I could | for weep|ing, you | should
hear,
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Nay, and | you shall | hear some.| Will you | be
gone?
VIRGILIA
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You shall / stay too:| I would | I had | the
power
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To say | so to my | husband.
SICINIUS
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Are you | mankind?
VOLUMNIA
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Aye fool, is that | a shame.| Note but | this
fool,
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Was not a | man my | father?| Hadst thou |
foxship*
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To ban|ish him | that struck | more* blows | for
Rome
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Than thou | hast spok|en words.
SICINIUS
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Oh bles|sed heavens!
VOLUMNIA
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More nob|le blows,| than ev|er thou / wise words.
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And for / Rome's good,| I'll tell | thee what:|
yet go:
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Nay but thou | shalt stay too:| I would | my
son
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Were in | Arab|ia, and / thy tribe | before him,
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His good | sword in | his hand.
SICINIUS
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What then?
VIRGILIA
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What then?|| He'd make | an end | of thy |
poster|ity.
VOLUMNIA
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Bastards,| and all. \\
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Good man, the wounds | that he | does bear | for
Rome!
MENENIUS
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Come, come, peace.|
SICINIUS
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I would | he had | contin|ued to | his coun||try
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As | he began,| and not | unknit | himself
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The nob|le knot | he made.
BRUTUS
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I would | he had.
VOLUMNIA
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I would | he had?| 'Twas you | incensed | the
rabble.
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Cats, that | can judge | as fit|ly of | his worth,
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As I | can of | those mys|teries / which heaven
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Will not | have earth | to know.
BRUTUS
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Pray | let's^go.
VOLUMNIA
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Now pray | sir get | you gone:
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You have done | a brave deed: Ere | you go,| hear
this:
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As far | as doth | the cap|itol | exceed
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The mean|est house | in Rome;| so far | my son
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This la|dy's hus|band here;| this (do | you see)
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Whom you | have ban|ished, does | exceed | you
all.
BRUTUS
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Well* well,| we'll leave | you.
SICINIUS
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Why stay | we to be | baited
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With one | that wants | her wits.
VOLUMNIA
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Take my | prayers with you. ??
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I would | the gods | had noth|ing else | to do,
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But to con|firm my | curses.| Could I | meet 'em
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But once | a day,| it would | unclog | my heart
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Of what lies hea|vy to it.
MENENIUS
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You have told | them home,
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And by | my troth | you have cause:| you'll sup |
with me?
VOLUMNIA
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Anger's | my meat:| I sup | upon | myself,
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And so | shall starve | with feed|ing: come,|
let's^go:
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Leave this | faint pul/ing, and la|ment as | I
do,
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T T
In ang|er, Jun|o-like:| Come, come, come.
MENENIUS
T T T
Fie, fie, fie. \\
[Exeunt]