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first citizen:
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before we proceed any further, hear me speak.
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all:
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speak, speak.
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first citizen:
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you are all resolved rather to die than to famish?
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all:
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resolved. resolved.
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first citizen:
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first, you know caius marcius is chief enemy to the people.
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all:
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we know't, we know't.
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first citizen:
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let us kill him, and we'll have corn at our own price.
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is't a verdict?
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all:
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no more talking on't: let it be done: away, away!
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second citizen:
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one word, good citizens.
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first citizen:
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we are accounted poor citizens, the patricians good.
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what authority surfeits on would relieve us: if they
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would yield us but the superfluity, while it were
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wholesome, we might guess they relieved us humanely:
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but they think we are too dear: the leanness that
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afflicts us, the object of our misery, is as an
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inventory to particularise their abundance: our
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sufferance is a gain to them let us revenge this with
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our pikes, ere we become rakes: for the gods know i
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speak this in hunger for bread, not in thirst for revenge.
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second citizen:
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would you proceed especially against caius marcius?
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all:
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against him first: he's a very dog to the commonalty.
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second citizen:
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consider you what services he has done for his country?
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first citizen:
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very well: and could be content to give him good
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report fort, but that he pays himself with being proud.
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second citizen:
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nay, but speak not maliciously.
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first citizen:
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i say unto you, what he hath done famously, he did
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it to that end: though soft-conscienced men can be
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content to say it was for his country he did it to
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please his mother and to be partly proud: which he
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is, even till the altitude of his virtue.
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second citizen:
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what he cannot help in his nature, you account a
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vice in him. you must in no way say he is covetous.
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first citizen:
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if i must not, i need not be barren of accusations:
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he hath faults, with surplus, to tire in repetition.
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what shouts are these? the other side o' the city
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is risen: why stay we prating here? to the capitol!
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all:
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come, come.
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first citizen:
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soft! who comes here?
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second citizen:
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worthy menenius agrippa: one that hath always loved
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the people.
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first citizen:
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he's one honest enough: would all the rest were so!
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menenius:
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what work's, my countrymen, in hand? where go you
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with bats and clubs? the matter? speak, i pray you.
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first citizen:
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our business is not unknown to the senate: they have
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had inkling this fortnight what we intend to do,
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which now we'll show 'em in deeds. they say poor
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suitors have strong breaths: they shall know we
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have strong arms too.
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menenius:
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why, masters, my good friends, mine honest neighbours,
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will you undo yourselves?
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