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AUFIDIUS:
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If I fly, Marcius,
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Holloa me like a hare.
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MARCIUS:
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Within these three hours, Tullus,
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Alone I fought in your Corioli walls,
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And made what work I pleased: 'tis not my blood
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Wherein thou seest me mask'd; for thy revenge
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Wrench up thy power to the highest.
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AUFIDIUS:
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Wert thou the Hector
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That was the whip of your bragg'd progeny,
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Thou shouldst not scape me here.
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Officious, and not valiant, you have shamed me
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In your condemned seconds.
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COMINIUS:
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If I should tell thee o'er this thy day's work,
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Thou'ldst not believe thy deeds: but I'll report it
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Where senators shall mingle tears with smiles,
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Where great patricians shall attend and shrug,
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I' the end admire, where ladies shall be frighted,
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And, gladly quaked, hear more; where the
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dull tribunes,
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That, with the fusty plebeians, hate thine honours,
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Shall say against their hearts 'We thank the gods
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Our Rome hath such a soldier.'
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Yet camest thou to a morsel of this feast,
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Having fully dined before.
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LARTIUS:
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O general,
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Here is the steed, we the caparison:
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Hadst thou beheld--
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MARCIUS:
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Pray now, no more: my mother,
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Who has a charter to extol her blood,
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When she does praise me grieves me. I have done
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As you have done; that's what I can; induced
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As you have been; that's for my country:
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He that has but effected his good will
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Hath overta'en mine act.
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COMINIUS:
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You shall not be
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The grave of your deserving; Rome must know
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The value of her own: 'twere a concealment
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Worse than a theft, no less than a traducement,
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To hide your doings; and to silence that,
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Which, to the spire and top of praises vouch'd,
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Would seem but modest: therefore, I beseech you
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In sign of what you are, not to reward
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What you have done--before our army hear me.
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MARCIUS:
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I have some wounds upon me, and they smart
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To hear themselves remember'd.
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COMINIUS:
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Should they not,
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Well might they fester 'gainst ingratitude,
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And tent themselves with death. Of all the horses,
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Whereof we have ta'en good and good store, of all
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The treasure in this field achieved and city,
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We render you the tenth, to be ta'en forth,
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Before the common distribution, at
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Your only choice.
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MARCIUS:
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I thank you, general;
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But cannot make my heart consent to take
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A bribe to pay my sword: I do refuse it;
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And stand upon my common part with those
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That have beheld the doing.
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MARCIUS:
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May these same instruments, which you profane,
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Never sound more! when drums and trumpets shall
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I' the field prove flatterers, let courts and cities be
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Made all of false-faced soothing!
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When steel grows soft as the parasite's silk,
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Let him be made a coverture for the wars!
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No more, I say! For that I have not wash'd
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My nose that bled, or foil'd some debile wretch.--
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Which, without note, here's many else have done,--
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You shout me forth
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In acclamations hyperbolical;
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As if I loved my little should be dieted
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In praises sauced with lies.
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COMINIUS:
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Too modest are you;
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More cruel to your good report than grateful
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To us that give you truly: by your patience,
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If 'gainst yourself you be incensed, we'll put you,
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Like one that means his proper harm, in manacles,
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