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Rome. A public place.
[Enter SICINIUS and BRUTUS]
SICINIUS
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We hear | not of him,| neither | need we | fear
him,
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His rem|edies | are tame,| in the pres|ent peace,
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And qui|etness | of the peo|ple, which | before
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Were in / wild hur|ry. Here | do we make | his friends
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Blush, that the | world goes well:| who rath|er
had,
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Though they | themselves | did suf|fer by it,|
behold
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Dissen|tious num|bers pest|ering streets,| than
see
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Our trades|men sing|ing in | their shops,| and
going
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About | their func|tions friend|ly.
BRUTUS
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We stood | to it in || good^time.| Is
this^Me|nenius?
SICINIUS
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'Tis he,| 'tis he:|| O he is | grown most kind
| of late:
TRIBUNES
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Hail sir.
MENENIUS
Hail to you both.
SICINIUS
Your Coriolanus is not much missed, but with his friends: the commonwealth
doth stand, and so would do, were he more angry at it.
MENENIUS
All's well, and might have been much better, if he could have temporized.
SICINIUS
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Where is | he, hear | you?
MENENIUS
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Nay | I hear | nothing:
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His moth|er and his / wife, hear | nothing | from
him.
[Enter three or four Citizens]
CITIZENS
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The gods | preserve | you both.
SICINIUS
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Gooden our | neighbors.
BRUTUS
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Gooden to | you all,| gooden to | you all.|
FIRST CITIZEN
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Ourselves,| our wives,| and child|ren, on | our
knees,
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Are bound | to pray | for you / both.
SICINIUS
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Live,| and thrive.
BRUTUS
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Farewell, kind | neighbors:
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We wished | Cori||ola|nus had / loved you | as
we did.
CITIZENS
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Now the | gods keep you.
TRIBUNES
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Farewell,| farewell.
[Exeunt Citizens]
SICINIUS
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This is | a hap|pier and / more come|ly time,
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Than when | these fel|lows ran | about | the
streets,
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Crying | confus|ion.
BRUTUS
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Mar|tius Cai|us was
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A worth|y of|ficer in the / war, but | insolent*,
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Orecome | with pride,| ambi|tious, past | all*
think||ing
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Self | loving.
SICINIUS
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And af|fecting | one sole throne,|| without |
assis|tance.
MENENIUS
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I | think not so.
SICINIUS
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We should | by this,| to all | our
lam|enta||tion,
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If | he had gone | forth^cons|ul, found | it so.
BRUTUS
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The gods | have well | prevent|ed it,| and Rome
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Sits^safe | and still,| without | him.
[Enter an Aedile]
AEDILE
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worth|y tribunes,
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There^is | a slave,| whom we have | put in |
prison,
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Reports | the Vol|ces with / two seve|ral powers
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Are ent|ered in | the Rom|an ter|ritories,
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And with | the deep|est mal|ice of | the war,
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Destroy,| what lies | before |'em.
MENENIUS
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'Tis | Aufid||ius,
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Who | hearing | of our Mar|tius' ban|ishment,
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Thrusts forth his horns | again | into | the
world
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Which were | inshelled,| when Mar|tius stood |
for Rome,
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And durst | not once | peep^out.
SICINIUS
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Come, what | talk you of | Martius.
(tri with prev)
BRUTUS
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Go see | this rum|orer whipped,| it can|not be,
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The Vol|ces dare | break with | us.
MENENIUS
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Can|not be?
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We have | record,| that ve|ry well | it can,
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And three | examp|les of | the like,| have been
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Within | my age.| But reas/on with the | fellow
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Before | you pun|ish him,| where he / heard this,
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Lest you shall | chance to | whip your
| infor|mation,
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And beat | the mes|senger,| who bids | beware
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Of what | is to | be drea|ded. \\
SICINIUS
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Tell | not me:| I know | this can|not be.
BRUTUS
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Not pos/sible. \\
[Enter a MESSENGER]
MESSENGER
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The nob|les in / great earn|estness | are going
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All to the | senate-|house: some | news is
| coming
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That turns | their count|enan/ces.
SICINIUS
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'Tis | this slave:
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Go whip | him 'fore | the peo|ple's eyes:| his
rais||ing,
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Noth|ing but | his report.
MESSENGER
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Yes^worth|y sir,
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The slave's | report | is sec|onded,| and more
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More* fear|ful is de|livered.
SICINIUS
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What more*| fearful?
MESSENGER
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It is / spoke free|ly out | of ma|ny mouths,
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How prob|able | I do not | know, that | Martius
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Joined with Au|fidius,| leads a | power 'gainst
Rome,
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And vows | revenge | as spa|cious, as | between
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The young|est and old|est thing.
SICINIUS
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This is most | likely.
BRUTUS
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Raised on/ly, that | the weak|er sort | may wish
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Good* Mar|tius home | again. \\
SICINIUS
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The ve|ry trick | on it.
MENENIUS
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This | is un|likely,
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He, and | Aufid|ius can | no more | atone
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Than vi|olentst | contra|rie|ty.
[Enter a second MESSENGER]
SECOND MESSENGER
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You are | sent for / to the | senate:|
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A fear|ful ar|my, led | by Cai|us Mar||tius,
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Asso|ciat|ed with Aufid|ius, rag||es
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Upon | our ter|ritories,| and have | alrea||dy
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Oreborne | their way,| consumed | with fire,| and
took
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What lay | before | them.
[Enter COMINIUS]
COMINIUS
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Oh | you have made | good* work.
MENENIUS
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What | news?| What | news?
COMINIUS
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You have || holp to | ravish | your own
daught|ers, and
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To melt | the ci|ty leads | upon | your pates,
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To see | your wives | dishon/ored to your |
noses.
MENENIUS
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What's the | news?| What's the | news?|
COMINIUS
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Your temp|les burned | in their | cement,| and
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Your fran|chises,| whereon | you stood,| confined
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Into an | auger's | bore.
MENENIUS
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Pray now,| your news:
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You have made | fair* work | I fear | me: Pray |
your news,
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If Mar|tius should | be joined | with Vol|scians.
COMINIUS
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If?|| He is | their god,| he leads | them like
| a thing
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Made by* some^|other | dei|ty than | nature,
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That shapes | man bet/ter: and | they fol|low him
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Against | us brats,| with no | less^con|fidence,
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Than boys | pursu|ing sum|mer but|terflies,
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Or butch|ers kil|ling flies.
MENENIUS
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You have made | good* work,
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You and your | apron|men*: you,| that stood | so
much
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Upon | the voice | of oc|cupa|tion, and
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The breath | of gar|lic-ea|ters. \\
COMINIUS
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He'll shake | your Rome | about | your ears.|
MENENIUS
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As Herc|ules | did shake | down^mel|low fruit:
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You have made | fair* work. \\
BRUTUS
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But is | this true | sir?
COMINIUS
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Aye,| and you'll^/look pale
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Before | you find it | other.| All the | regions
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Do smi|lingly | revolt,| and who | resist
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Are mocked | for val|iant ig|norance,
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And per||ish const|ant fools:| who is it | can
blame | him?
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Your || ene|mies and | his, find | something |
in him.
MENENIUS
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We are | all undone,| unless |
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The noble | man have | mercy.
COMINIUS
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Who shall | ask it?
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The tri|bunes* can|not do it | for shame;| the
peo||ple
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Deserve | such pi|ty of | him, as | the wolf
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Does of the | shepherds:| for his / best
friends,| if they
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Should say | be good | to Rome,| they charged |
him, even
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As those | should do | that had | deserved | his
hate,
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And therein | showed like en|emies.
MENENIUS
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'Tis true,|| if he | were put|ting to / my
house,| the brand
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That should | consume | it, I | have not | the
face
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To say,| beseech | you cease.| You have made |
fair* hands,
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You and | your crafts,| you have craf|ted fair.
COMINIUS
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You have brought
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A trem|bling upon | Rome, such / as was | never
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So incap|able | of help.
TRIBUNES
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Say not,| we brought it.
MENENIUS
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How?| Was it | we? We | loved him,
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But like beasts,| and cow|ardly nobles,
(tetra with prev)
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Gave way | unto | your clust|ers, who | did hoot
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Him out / of the | city.
COMINIUS
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But I fear
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They'll roar | him in | again.| Tullus Au|fidius,
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The sec|ond name | of men,| obeys | his points
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As if | he were his | officer:| despe|ration,
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Is all | the pol|icy,| strength and | defense,
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That Rome | can make | against | them.
[Enter a troop of Citizens]
MENENIUS
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Here come | the clust||ers.
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And | is Aufid|ius with | him? You | are they
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That made | the air | unwhole|some, when | you
cast
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Your stink|ing, grea|sy caps,| in hoot|ing
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At || Cori|olan|us' ex|ile. Now* he's | coming,
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And not | a hair | upon | a sol|dier's head
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Which^will | not prove | a whip:| as many |
coxcombs*
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As you / threw caps | up, will | he tum|ble down,
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And pay | you for | your voi|ces. 'Tis | no
matter,
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If he | could burn | us all | into / one coal,
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We have | deserved it.
CITIZENS
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Faith, we | hear* fear|ful news.
FIRST CITIZEN
For mine own part,
When I said banish him, I said 'twas pity.
SECOND CITIZEN
And so did I.
THIRD CITIZEN
And so did I: and to say the truth, so did very many of us, that we did we
did for the best, and though we willingly consented to his banishment, yet
it was against our will.
COMINIUS
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You're good|ly things,| you voi|ces.
MENENIUS
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You have made | good* work
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You and | your cry.| Shall us to | the cap|itol?
COMINIUS
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Oh aye,| what else? \\
[Exeunt COMINIUS and MENENIUS]
SICINIUS
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Go* mast|ers, get | you home,| be not | dismayed,
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These are | a side,| that would | be glad | to
have
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This true,| which they | so seem | to fear.| Go*
home,
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And show | no sign | of fear. \\
FIRST CITIZEN
The gods be good to us: Come masters let's home, I ever said we were in the
wrong when we banished him.
SECOND CITIZEN
So did we all. But come, let's home.
[Exeunt Citizens]
BRUTUS
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I do | not like | this news.
SICINIUS
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Nor I.|
BRUTUS
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Let's to | the cap|itol:| would half | my wealth
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Would buy | this for | a lie.
SICINIUS
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Pray let's go.
[Exeunt]