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To say so to my husband.
SICINIUS
Are you mankind?
VOLUMNIA
Ay, fool, is that a shame? Note but this, fool:
Was not a man my father? Hadst thou foxship
To banish him that struck more blows for Rome
Than thou hast spoken words?
SICINIUS
O blessed heavens! [20]
VOLUMNIA
More noble blows than ever thou wise words,
And for Rome’s good. I’ll tell thee what − yet go.
Nay, but thou shalt stay too. I would my son
Were in Arabia, and thy tribe before him,
His good sword in his hand.
SICINIUS
What then?
VIRGILIA
What then! [25]
He’d make an end of thy posterity.
VOLUMNIA
Bastards and all.
Good man, the wounds that he does bear for Rome!
MENENIUS
Come, come, peace.
SICINIUS
I would he had continued to his country [30]
