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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.