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Rome. A public place.
[Enter MENENIUS, COMINIUS, SICINIUS, BRUTUS, and others]
MENENIUS
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No, I'll | not go:| you hear | what he | hath
said
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Which^was | *sometime | his gene|ral: who | loved
him
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In a most | dear part|icular.| He called | me
fath||er:
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But | what of / that? Go | you that | banished
him;
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A mile | before | his tent,| fall down, and^knee
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The way | into his | mercy:| nay, if | he coyed
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To hear | Comin|ius speak,| I'll keep | at home.
COMINIUS
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He would | not seem | to know | me.
MENENIUS
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Do | you hear?
COMINIUS
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Yet one time | he did call | me by | my name:
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I urged | our old | acquaint|ance, and | the
drops
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That we | have bled | togeth|er. Cori|olan||us
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He would | not ans|wer to:| forbad | all^names,
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He was | a kind | of noth|ing, tit|leless,
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Till he | had forged | himself | a name | in the
fire
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Of burn|ing Rome.
MENENIUS
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Why so:| you have made | good* work:
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A pair | of tri|bunes, that | have wracked | for
Rome,
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To make coals cheap:| a nob|le mem|ory.
COMINIUS
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I mind|ed him,| how roy|al 'twas | to pardon
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When it | was less | expect|ed. He | replied
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It was | a bare | peti|tion of | a state
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To one | whom they | had pun|ished. \\
MENENIUS
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Very | well, could he | say | less.
COMINIUS
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I of|fered to | awak|en his | regard
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For his priv|ate friends.| His ans|wer to | me
was
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He could | not stay | to pick | them, in | a pile
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Of nois|ome mus|ty chaff.| He said,| 'twas
fol||ly
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For one | poor grain or two,| to leave |
unburnt,
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And still | to nose | the offense.
MENENIUS
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For one | poor grain or two? (tri with
prev)
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I am one | of those:| his moth|er, wife,| his
child,
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And this brave fel|low too,| we are | the
grains,
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You are | the mus|ty chaff,| and you | are smelt
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Above | the moon.| We must | be burnt | for you.
SICINIUS
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Nay, pray be pat|ient: if | you refuse | your aid
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In this | so never-|needed | help, yet^|do* not
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Upbraid us | with our | distress.| But sure | if
you
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Would be | your count|ry's plead|er, your / good
tongue
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More than | the inst|ant ar|my we | can make
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Might stop | our count|ryman*.
MENENIUS
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No:| I'll not | meddle.
SICINIUS
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Pray you | go to | him.
MENENIUS
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What | should I do?
BRUTUS
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Only | make trial what | your love | can do,
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For Rome,| towards | Martius. \\
MENENIUS
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Well, and | say that | Martius | return | me,
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As || Comin|ius is | returned,| unheard:| what
then?
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But as a | discon|tented | friend, grief-shot
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With his un|kindness.| Say it be | so? ??
SICINIUS
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Yet | your good* will ??
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Must^have | that thanks | from Rome,| after the |
measure
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As you | intend|ed well.
MENENIUS
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I'll und|ertake it:
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I think | he'll hear | me. Yet | to bite | his
lip,
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And hum | at good | Comin|ius, much | unhearts ||
me.
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He | was not tak|en well,| he had | not dined,
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The veins | unfilled,| our blood | is cold,| and
then
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We pout | upon | the morn|ing, are | unapt
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To give | or to / forgive;| but when | we have
stuffed
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These^pipes,| and these | convey|ances | of our
blood
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With wine | and feed|ing, we | have sup|pler
souls
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Than in our | priest-like fasts:| therefore I'll
| watch him
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Till he | be di|eted | to my | request,
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And then | I'll set | upon | him. \\
BRUTUS
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You know | the ve|ry road | into his | kindness,
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And can|not lose | your way.
MENENIUS
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Good faith | I'll prove || him,
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Speed | how it will.| I shall | ere long,| have
know||ledge
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Of my | success.
[Exit]
COMINIUS
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He'll nev|er hear | him.
SICINIUS
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Not.
COMINIUS
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I tell | you, he | does sit | in gold,| his eye
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Red as |'twould burn | Rome: and | his in|jury
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The jail|er to his | pity.| I kneeled | before
him,
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'Twas ve|ry faint|ly he | said^rise:| dismissed
|| me
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Thus | with his speech|less hand.| What he |
would do
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He sent | in writ|ing aft|er me: what | he would
not,
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Bound with an | oath to | yield to | his
con|ditions:
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So that all | hope is | vain, un|less his | noble
| mother,
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And his / wife, who |(as I / hear) mean | to
soli|cit him (hex with prev)
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For mer|cy to his | country:| therefore |
let's^hence,
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And with | our fair | entrea|ties haste | them
on.
[Exeunt]