Page 2880 - Shakespeare - Vol. 3
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SICINIUS
Bid them home. [5]
Say their great enemy is gone, and they
Stand in their ancient strenght.
BRUTUS
Dismiss them home.
Exit Aedile.
Here comes his mother.
Enter Volumnia, Virgilia, and Menenius.
SICINIUS
Let’s not meet her.
BRUTUS
Why?
SICINIUS
They say she’s mad.
BRUTUS
They have ta’en note of us. Keep on your way. [10]
VOLUMNIA
O, y’are well met. Th’hoarded plague o’th’gods
Requite your love!
MENENIUS
Peace, peace, be not so loud.
VOLUMNIA
If that I could for weeping, you should hear −
Nay, and you shall hear some. (To Brutus) Will you be gone?
VIRGILIA
(to Sicinius) You shall stay too. I would I had the power [15]