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SICINIUS:
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This is a happier and more comely time
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Than when these fellows ran about the streets,
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Crying confusion.
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BRUTUS:
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Caius Marcius was
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A worthy officer i' the war; but insolent,
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O'ercome with pride, ambitious past all thinking,
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Self-loving,--
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SICINIUS:
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And affecting one sole throne,
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Without assistance.
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MENENIUS:
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I think not so.
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SICINIUS:
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We should by this, to all our lamentation,
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If he had gone forth consul, found it so.
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BRUTUS:
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The gods have well prevented it, and Rome
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Sits safe and still without him.
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AEdile:
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Worthy tribunes,
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There is a slave, whom we have put in prison,
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Reports, the Volsces with two several powers
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Are enter'd in the Roman territories,
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And with the deepest malice of the war
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Destroy what lies before 'em.
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MENENIUS:
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'Tis Aufidius,
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Who, hearing of our Marcius' banishment,
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Thrusts forth his horns again into the world;
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Which were inshell'd when Marcius stood for Rome,
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And durst not once peep out.
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SICINIUS:
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Come, what talk you
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Of Marcius?
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BRUTUS:
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Go see this rumourer whipp'd. It cannot be
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The Volsces dare break with us.
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MENENIUS:
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Cannot be!
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We have record that very well it can,
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And three examples of the like have been
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Within my age. But reason with the fellow,
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Before you punish him, where he heard this,
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Lest you shall chance to whip your information
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And beat the messenger who bids beware
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Of what is to be dreaded.
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SICINIUS:
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Tell not me:
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I know this cannot be.
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BRUTUS:
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Not possible.
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Messenger:
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The nobles in great earnestness are going
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All to the senate-house: some news is come
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That turns their countenances.
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SICINIUS:
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'Tis this slave;--
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Go whip him, 'fore the people's eyes:--his raising;
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Nothing but his report.
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Messenger:
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Yes, worthy sir,
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The slave's report is seconded; and more,
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More fearful, is deliver'd.
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SICINIUS:
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What more fearful?
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Messenger:
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It is spoke freely out of many mouths--
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How probable I do not know--that Marcius,
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Join'd with Aufidius, leads a power 'gainst Rome,
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And vows revenge as spacious as between
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The young'st and oldest thing.
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SICINIUS:
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This is most likely!
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BRUTUS:
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Raised only, that the weaker sort may wish
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Good Marcius home again.
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SICINIUS:
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The very trick on't.
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