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[Enter TULLUS AUFIDIUS, with Attendants]
AUFIDIUS
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Go tell | the lords | of the ci|ty, I | am here:
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Deliv|er them | this pap|er: hav|ing read it,
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Bid them | repair | to the mark|et place,| where
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Even | in theirs,| and in | the com|mons' ears
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Will vouch | the truth | of it.| Him I | accuse:
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The ci|ty ports | by this | hath ent|ered, and
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Intends | to appear | before | the peo|ple,
hop||ing
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To purge | herself | with words.| Dispatch.|
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Most wel/come. \\
[Exeunt Attendants. Enter three or four Conspirators of AUFIDIUS' faction]
FIRST CONSPIRATOR
How is it with our general?
AUFIDIUS
Even so, as with a man by his own alms empoisoned, and with his charity
slain.
SECOND CONSPIRATOR
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Most^nob|le sir,| if you | do hold | the same |
intent
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Wherein | you wished | us part|ies: we'll |
deliv|er you (hex with prev)
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Of your / great dang|er.
AUFIDIUS
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Sir,| I can|not tell,
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We must | proceed | as we | do find | the
peo||ple.
THIRD CONSPIRATOR
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The peo|ple will | remain | uncert|ain, whilst
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'Twixt you | there's dif/ference: but | the fall
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Makes | the surviv|or heir | of all.
AUFIDIUS
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I know it:
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And my | pretext to strike | at him,| admits
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A good | construc|tion. I | raised him,| and I
pawned
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Mine^hon|or for his | truth: who | being so |
heightened,
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He wat|ered his new | plants with | dews of |
flattery,
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Sedu|cing so | my friends:| and to | this end,
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He bowed | his na|ture, nev|er known | before,
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But to | be rough,| unsway|able,| and free.
THIRD CONSPIRATOR
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Sir, his stoutness ????
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When he | did stand | for cons|ul, which | he
lost
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By lack | of stoo|ping.
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That | I would | have spoke of:
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Being ban|ished for it,| he came | unto | my
hearth,
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Present|ed to | my knife | his throat:| I took
him,
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Made him | joint-serv/ant with | me: gave | him
way
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In all | his own | desires:| nay, let^|him choose
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Out of my | files, his | projects,/ to
ac|complish
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My best | and fresh|est men,| served his
de|signments
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In mine / own pers|on: holp | to reap | the fame
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Which he did^|end all his;| and took | some pride
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To do | myself | this wrong:| till at | the last
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I seemed | his fol|lower,| not* part|ner; and
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He waged | me with | his count|enance,| as if
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I had | been mer|cenary.
FIRST CONSPIRATOR
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So he did | my lord:
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The ar|my marv|elled at it,| and in | the last,
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When he | had car|ried Rome,| and that | we
looked
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For no | less^spoil,| than glo|ry.
AUFIDIUS
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There | was it:
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For which | my sin|ews shall | be stretched |
upon him,
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At a / few drops | of wom|en's rheum,| which are
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As cheap | as lies,| he sold | the blood | and
lab||or
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Of our | great ac/tion; there|fore shall | he
die,
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And I'll | renew | me in | his fall.| But hark.
[Drums and trumpets sound, with great shouts of the People]
FIRST CONSPIRATOR
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Your nat|ive town | you ent|ered like | a post,
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And had | no wel|comes home,| but he | returns
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Splitting | the air | with noise.
SECOND CONSPIRATOR
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And pa|tient fools,
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Whose child/ren he hath | slain, their | base
throats tear
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With giv|ing him glo|ry.
THIRD CONSPIRATOR
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Therefore,| at your | vantage,
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Ere he ex|press him|self, or | move the | people
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With what | he would / say, let | him feel | your
sword:
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Which we | will sec|ond, when | he lies | along
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After | your way.| His tale | pronounced,| shall
bu||ry
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His reas|ons, with | his bo|dy. \\
AUFIDIUS
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Say no more.| Here come | the lords.|
[Enter the Lords of the city]
LORDS
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You are most | welcome | home.
AUFIDIUS
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I have | not de|served it.
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But worth|y lords,| have you | with heed |
perused
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What I have | written to you?
LORDS
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We have.
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And grieve | to hear it:
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What faults | he made | before | the last,| I
think
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Might have | found^ea|sy fines:| but there | to
end
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Where he | was to | begin,| and give | away
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The ben|efit | of our lev|ies, ans|wering us
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With our / own charge:| making | a trea|ty, where
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There was | a yield|ing; this | admits | no
excuse.
AUFIDIUS
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He ap|proaches,| you shall | hear him.|
[Enter CORIOLANUS, marching with drum and colors; commoners being with him]
CORIOLANUS
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Hail lords, I | am re|turned your | soldier:
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No more^|infect|ed with | my count|ry's love
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Than when | I part|ed hence:| but still |
subsist||ing
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und|er your great | command.| You are | to know,
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That pros|perously | I have | attempt|ed, and
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With bloo|dy pas|sage led | your wars,| even ||
to
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The gates | of Rome:| Our spoils | we have /
brought home
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Doth^more | than count|erpoise | a full third
part
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The charg|es of | the ac|tion. We have / made
peace
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With no | less hon/or to | the Ant|iates
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Than shame | to the Rom|ans. And | we here |
deliv||er
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Sub|scribed by the | consuls,| and pa|tricians,
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Togeth|er with | the seal | of the sen|ate, what
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We have | compound|ed on.
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Read it | not noble lords, (tri with prev)
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But tell | the trait|or in | the high|est degree
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He hath^|abused | your powers.
CORIOLANUS
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Traitor?| How* now?
AUFIDIUS
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Aye | traitor,| Martius.
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Martius?
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Aye || Martius,| Martius | Caius:| dost thou
think
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I'll grace | thee with | that rob|bery, thy /
stolen name
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Cori|olan|us in | Cori|oli?
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You lords | and heads | of the state,|
perfid|iously
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He has | betrayed | your bus|iness, and / given
up
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For cert|ain drops | of salt,| your ci|ty Rome:
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I say | your ci/ty to his | wife and | mother,
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Breaking | his oath | and res|olu|tion, like
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A twist | of rot|ten silk,| never ad|mitting
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Counsel | of the war:| but at | his nur|se's
tears
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He whined | and roared | away | your vic|tory,
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That pag|es blushed | at him,| and men | of heart
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Looked^wond|ering each | at oth|er.
CORIOLANUS
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Hearst | thou Mars?
AUFIDIUS
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Name not the god,| thou boy | of tears.
CORIOLANUS
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Ha?
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No more. \\
CORIOLANUS
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Measure|less li|ar, thou | hast made | my heart
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Too great | for what | contains | it. Boy?| Oh
slave,
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Pardon me | lords, 'tis | the first | time that |
ever
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I was forced | to scold.| Your judg|ments, my /
grave lords,
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Must^give | this cur | the lie:| and his own |
notion,
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Who wears | my stripes | impressed | upon | him,
that
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Must^bear | my beat|ing to | his grave,| shall
join
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To thrust | the lie | unto | him. \\
FIRST LORD
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Peace both, and hear | me speak. \\
CORIOLANUS
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Cut me | to pie|ces Vol|ces men | and lads,
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Stain all^your | edges | on me.| Boy, false
hound: ??
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If you | have writ | your an|nals true,| 'tis
there,
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That like | an eag|le in a // dove-coat, I
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Fluttered | your Vol|scians in | Cori|oli.
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Alone | I did | it, Boy.
AUFIDIUS
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Why nob|le lords,
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Will you | be put | in mind | of his blind |
fortune*,
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Which^was | your shame,| by this un|holy |
braggart?
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'Fore your | own^eyes,| and ears?
CONSPIRATORS
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Let him | die for it.
PEOPLE
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Tear him | to pie|ces, do | it pres|ently:
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He killed | my son,| my daught|er, he | killed my
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Marcus,| he killed | my fath|er. \\
SECOND LORD
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Peace ho: no | outrage, peace.|
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The man | is nob|le, and | his fame | folds^in
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This orb | of the earth:| his last | offen|ses to
us
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Shall have | judi|cious hear|ing. Stand |
Aufid||ius,
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And troub|le not | the peace.
CORIOLANUS
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O that I | had him,|| with six | Aufid|iuses,|
or more:
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His tribe,|| to use | my law|ful sword.
AUFIDIUS
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Insolent | villain.
CONSPIRATORS
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Kill,| kill,| kill,| kill,| kill him.
[The Conspirators draw, and kill CORIOLANUS: AUFIDIUS stands on his body]
LORDS
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Hold,| hold,| hold,| hold.|
AUFIDIUS
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My nob|le mast|ers, hear | me speak.
FIRST LORD
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O Tullus.
SECOND LORD
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Thou hast done | a deed,| whereat
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Valor | will weep. \\
THIRD LORD
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Tread^not | upon | him mast|ers, all | be quiet,
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Put up | your swords.
AUFIDIUS
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My lords, \\
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When you | shall know |(as in | this rage,
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Provoked | by him,| you cannot)| the great |
danger
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Which this | man's^life | did owe | you, you'll |
rejoice
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That he is | thus cut^|off. Please / it your |
honors
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To call | me to your | senate,| I'll de|liver
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Myself | your loy|al serv|ant, or | endure
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Your heav|iest cens|ure.
FIRST LORD
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Bear | from hence | his bo||dy,
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And / mourn you | for him.| Let him | be
regard||ed
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As the / most nob|le corse,| that ev|er her||ald
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Did fol|low to | his urn.
SECOND LORD
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His own | impa||tience,
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Takes | from Aufid|ius a / great part | of blame:
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Let's^make | the best | of it.
AUFIDIUS
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My rage | is gone,
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And I | am struck | with sor|row. Take | him up:
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Help^three | of the chief|est sol|diers, I'll |
be one.
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Beat thou | the drum | that it / speak
mourn|fully:
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Trail your | steel pikes. Though | in this ci|ty
he
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Hath wid|owed and | unchild|ed ma|ny a one,
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Which to | this hour | bewail | the in|jury,
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Yet he shall | have a | noble | memory.| Assist.
[Exeunt, bearing the body of CORIOLANUS. A dead march sounded]