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Win upon power and throw forth greater themes
               For insurrection’s arguing.



              MENENIUS
                               This is strange.



              MARTIUS
               Go get you home, you fragments. [220]


                                              Enter a Messenger, hastily.



              MESSENGER
               Where’s Caius Martius?



              MARTIUS

                               Here. What’s the matter?


              MESSENGER

               The news is, sir, the Volsces are in arms.



              MARTIUS
               I am glad on’t. Then we shall ha’ means to vent
               Our musty superfluity. See, our best elders.


                  Enter Cominius, Titus Lartius, with other Senators; Junius Brutus and
                                                   Sicinius Velutus.



              FIRST SENATOR

               Martius, ’tis true that you have lately told us: [225]
               The Volsces are in arms.



              MARTIUS
                               They have a leader,
               Tullus Aufidius, that will put you to’t.
               I sin in envying his nobility,

               And were I anything but what I am,
               I would wish me only he.
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