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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]
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