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SICINIUS
Come, what talk you of Martius?
BRUTUS
Go see this rumourer whipped. It cannot be
The Volsces dare break with us.
MENENIUS
Cannot be!
We have record that very well it can, [50]
And three examples of the like hath been
Within my age. But reason with the fellow
Before you punish him, where he heard this,
Lest you shall chance to whip your information
And beat the messenger who bids beware [55]
Of what is to be dreaded.
SICINIUS
Tell not me.
I know this cannot be.
BRUTUS
Not possible.
Enter a Messenger.
MESSENGER
The nobles in great earnestness are going
All to the Senate House. Some news is coming
That turns their countenances.
SICINIUS
’Tis this slave − [60]
Go whip him ’fore the people’s eyes − his raising,
Nothing but his report.
MESSENGER
