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MENENIUS:
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How! Was it we? we loved him but, like beasts
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And cowardly nobles, gave way unto your clusters,
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Who did hoot him out o' the city.
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COMINIUS:
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But I fear
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They'll roar him in again. Tullus Aufidius,
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The second name of men, obeys his points
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As if he were his officer: desperation
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Is all the policy, strength and defence,
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That Rome can make against them.
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MENENIUS:
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Here come the clusters.
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And is Aufidius with him? You are they
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That made the air unwholesome, when you cast
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Your stinking greasy caps in hooting at
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Coriolanus' exile. Now he's coming;
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And not a hair upon a soldier's head
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Which will not prove a whip: as many coxcombs
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As you threw caps up will he tumble down,
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And pay you for your voices. 'Tis no matter;
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if he could burn us all into one coal,
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We have deserved it.
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Citizens:
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Faith, we hear fearful news.
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First Citizen:
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For mine own part,
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When I said, banish him, I said 'twas pity.
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Second Citizen:
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And so did I.
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Third Citizen:
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And so did I; and, to say the truth, so did very
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many of us: that we did, we did for the best; and
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though we willingly consented to his banishment, yet
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it was against our will.
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COMINIUS:
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Ye re goodly things, you voices!
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MENENIUS:
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You have made
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Good work, you and your cry! Shall's to the Capitol?
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COMINIUS:
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O, ay, what else?
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SICINIUS:
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Go, masters, get you home; be not dismay'd:
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These are a side that would be glad to have
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This true which they so seem to fear. Go home,
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And show no sign of fear.
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First Citizen:
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The gods be good to us! Come, masters, let's home.
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I ever said we were i' the wrong when we banished
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him.
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Second Citizen:
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So did we all. But, come, let's home.
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BRUTUS:
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I do not like this news.
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SICINIUS:
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Nor I.
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BRUTUS:
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Let's to the Capitol. Would half my wealth
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Would buy this for a lie!
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SICINIUS:
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Pray, let us go.
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AUFIDIUS:
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Do they still fly to the Roman?
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Lieutenant:
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I do not know what witchcraft's in him, but
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Your soldiers use him as the grace 'fore meat,
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Their talk at table, and their thanks at end;
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And you are darken'd in this action, sir,
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Even by your own.
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AUFIDIUS:
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I cannot help it now,
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Unless, by using means, I lame the foot
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Of our design. He bears himself more proudlier,
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Even to my person, than I thought he would
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When first I did embrace him: yet his nature
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In that's no changeling; and I must excuse
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What cannot be amended.
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Lieutenant:
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