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Let him alone;
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He did inform the truth: but for our gentlemen,
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The common file--a plague! tribunes for them!--
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The mouse ne'er shunn'd the cat as they did budge
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From rascals worse than they.
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COMINIUS:
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But how prevail'd you?
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MARCIUS:
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Will the time serve to tell? I do not think.
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Where is the enemy? are you lords o' the field?
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If not, why cease you till you are so?
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COMINIUS:
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Marcius,
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We have at disadvantage fought and did
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Retire to win our purpose.
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MARCIUS:
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How lies their battle? know you on which side
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They have placed their men of trust?
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COMINIUS:
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As I guess, Marcius,
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Their bands i' the vaward are the Antiates,
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Of their best trust; o'er them Aufidius,
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Their very heart of hope.
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MARCIUS:
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I do beseech you,
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By all the battles wherein we have fought,
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By the blood we have shed together, by the vows
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We have made to endure friends, that you directly
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Set me against Aufidius and his Antiates;
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And that you not delay the present, but,
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Filling the air with swords advanced and darts,
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We prove this very hour.
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COMINIUS:
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Though I could wish
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You were conducted to a gentle bath
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And balms applied to, you, yet dare I never
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Deny your asking: take your choice of those
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That best can aid your action.
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MARCIUS:
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Those are they
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That most are willing. If any such be here--
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As it were sin to doubt--that love this painting
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Wherein you see me smear'd; if any fear
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Lesser his person than an ill report;
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If any think brave death outweighs bad life
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And that his country's dearer than himself;
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Let him alone, or so many so minded,
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Wave thus, to express his disposition,
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And follow Marcius.
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O, me alone! make you a sword of me?
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If these shows be not outward, which of you
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But is four Volsces? none of you but is
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Able to bear against the great Aufidius
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A shield as hard as his. A certain number,
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Though thanks to all, must I select
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from all: the rest
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Shall bear the business in some other fight,
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As cause will be obey'd. Please you to march;
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And four shall quickly draw out my command,
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Which men are best inclined.
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COMINIUS:
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March on, my fellows:
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Make good this ostentation, and you shall
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Divide in all with us.
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LARTIUS:
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So, let the ports be guarded: keep your duties,
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As I have set them down. If I do send, dispatch
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Those centuries to our aid: the rest will serve
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For a short holding: if we lose the field,
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We cannot keep the town.
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Lieutenant:
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Fear not our care, sir.
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LARTIUS:
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Hence, and shut your gates upon's.
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Our guider, come; to the Roman camp conduct us.
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MARCIUS:
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I'll fight with none but thee; for I do hate thee
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Worse than a promise-breaker.
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AUFIDIUS:
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We hate alike:
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Not Afric owns a serpent I abhor
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More than thy fame and envy. Fix thy foot.
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MARCIUS:
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Let the first budger die the other's slave,
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And the gods doom him after!
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