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As you were fore-advised, had touch'd his spirit
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And tried his inclination; from him pluck'd
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Either his gracious promise, which you might,
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As cause had call'd you up, have held him to
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Or else it would have gall'd his surly nature,
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Which easily endures not article
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Tying him to aught; so putting him to rage,
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You should have ta'en the advantage of his choler
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And pass'd him unelected.
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BRUTUS:
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Did you perceive
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He did solicit you in free contempt
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When he did need your loves, and do you think
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That his contempt shall not be bruising to you,
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When he hath power to crush? Why, had your bodies
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No heart among you? or had you tongues to cry
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Against the rectorship of judgment?
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SICINIUS:
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Have you
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Ere now denied the asker? and now again
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Of him that did not ask, but mock, bestow
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Your sued-for tongues?
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Third Citizen:
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He's not confirm'd; we may deny him yet.
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Second Citizen:
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And will deny him:
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I'll have five hundred voices of that sound.
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First Citizen:
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I twice five hundred and their friends to piece 'em.
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BRUTUS:
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Get you hence instantly, and tell those friends,
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They have chose a consul that will from them take
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Their liberties; make them of no more voice
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Than dogs that are as often beat for barking
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As therefore kept to do so.
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SICINIUS:
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Let them assemble,
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And on a safer judgment all revoke
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Your ignorant election; enforce his pride,
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And his old hate unto you; besides, forget not
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With what contempt he wore the humble weed,
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How in his suit he scorn'd you; but your loves,
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Thinking upon his services, took from you
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The apprehension of his present portance,
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Which most gibingly, ungravely, he did fashion
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After the inveterate hate he bears you.
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BRUTUS:
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Lay
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A fault on us, your tribunes; that we laboured,
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No impediment between, but that you must
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Cast your election on him.
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SICINIUS:
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Say, you chose him
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More after our commandment than as guided
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By your own true affections, and that your minds,
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Preoccupied with what you rather must do
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Than what you should, made you against the grain
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To voice him consul: lay the fault on us.
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BRUTUS:
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Ay, spare us not. Say we read lectures to you.
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How youngly he began to serve his country,
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How long continued, and what stock he springs of,
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The noble house o' the Marcians, from whence came
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That Ancus Marcius, Numa's daughter's son,
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Who, after great Hostilius, here was king;
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Of the same house Publius and Quintus were,
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That our beat water brought by conduits hither;
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And
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Twice being
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Was his great ancestor.
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SICINIUS:
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One thus descended,
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That hath beside well in his person wrought
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To be set high in place, we did commend
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To your remembrances: but you have found,
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Scaling his present bearing with his past,
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That he's your fixed enemy, and revoke
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Your sudden approbation.
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BRUTUS:
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Say, you ne'er had done't--
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Harp on that still--but by our putting on;
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And presently, when you have drawn your number,
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Repair to the Capitol.
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All:
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We will so: almost all
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Repent in their election.
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