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Sicinius. Was ever man so proud as is this Marcius? 1.1.264
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Sicinius. When we were chosen tribunes for the people,-- 1.1.266
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Sicinius. Nay. but his taunts. 1.1.268
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Sicinius. Be-mock the modest moon. 1.1.270
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Sicinius. Such a nature,1.1.273
        Tickled with good success, disdains the shadow1.1.274
        Which he treads on at noon: but I do wonder1.1.275
        His insolence can brook to be commanded1.1.276
        Under Cominius. 1.1.277
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Sicinius. Besides, if things go well,1.1.286
        Opinion that so sticks on Marcius shall1.1.287
        Of his demerits rob Cominius. 1.1.288
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Sicinius. Let's hence, and hear1.1.294
        How the dispatch is made, and in what fashion,1.1.295
        More than his singularity, he goes1.1.296
        Upon this present action. 1.1.297
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Sicinius. Nature teaches beasts to know their friends. 2.1.5
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Sicinius. The lamb. 2.1.7
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Sicinius. Especially in pride. 2.1.17
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Sicinius. Menenius, you are known well enough too. 2.1.43
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Sicinius. On the sudden,2.1.229
        I warrant him consul. 2.1.230
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Sicinius. He cannot temperately transport his honours2.1.233
        From where he should begin and end, but will2.1.234
        Lose those he hath won. 2.1.235
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Sicinius. Doubt not2.1.237
        The commoners, for whom we stand, but they2.1.238
        Upon their ancient malice will forget2.1.239
        With the least cause these his new honours, which2.1.240
        That he will give them make I as little question2.1.241
        As he is proud to do't. 2.1.242
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Sicinius. 'Tis right. 2.1.249
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Sicinius. I wish no better2.1.253
        Than have him hold that purpose and to put it2.1.254
        In execution. 2.1.255
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Sicinius. It shall be to him then as our good wills,2.1.257
        A sure destruction. 2.1.258
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Sicinius. This, as you say, suggested2.1.270
        At some time when his soaring insolence2.1.271
        Shall touch the people--which time shall not want,2.1.272
        If he be put upon 't; and that's as easy2.1.273
        As to set dogs on sheep--will be his fire2.1.274
        To kindle their dry stubble; and their blaze2.1.275
        Shall darken him for ever.2.1.276

Enter a Messenger

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Sicinius. Have with you.2.1.290

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Sicinius. We are convented2.2.58
        Upon a pleasing treaty, and have hearts2.2.59
        Inclinable to honour and advance2.2.60
        The theme of our assembly. 2.2.61
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Sicinius. Sir, the people2.2.162
        Must have their voices; neither will they bate2.2.163
        One jot of ceremony. 2.2.164
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Sicinius. May they perceive's intent! He will require them,2.2.183
        As if he did contemn what he requested2.2.184
        Should be in them to give. 2.2.185
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Sicinius. The custom of request you have discharged:2.3.143
        The people do admit you, and are summon'd2.3.144
        To meet anon, upon your approbation. 2.3.145
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Sicinius. There, Coriolanus. 2.3.147
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Sicinius. You may, sir. 2.3.149
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Sicinius. Fare you well.2.3.154

Exeunt CORIOLANUS and MENENIUS

        He has it now, and by his looks methink2.3.155
        'Tis warm at 's heart. 2.3.156
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Sicinius How now, my masters! have you chose this man? 2.3.159
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Sicinius. Why, so he did, I am sure. 2.3.170
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Sicinius. Why either were you ignorant to see't,2.3.182
        Or, seeing it, of such childish friendliness2.3.183
        To yield your voices? 2.3.184
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Sicinius. Thus to have said,2.3.200
        As you were fore-advised, had touch'd his spirit2.3.201
        And tried his inclination; from him pluck'd2.3.202
        Either his gracious promise, which you might,2.3.203
        As cause had call'd you up, have held him to2.3.204
        Or else it would have gall'd his surly nature,2.3.205
        Which easily endures not article2.3.206
        Tying him to aught; so putting him to rage,2.3.207
        You should have ta'en the advantage of his choler2.3.208
        And pass'd him unelected. 2.3.209
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Sicinius. Have you2.3.217
        Ere now denied the asker? and now again2.3.218
        Of him that did not ask, but mock, bestow2.3.219
        Your sued-for tongues? 2.3.220
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Sicinius. Let them assemble,2.3.230
        And on a safer judgment all revoke2.3.231
        Your ignorant election; enforce his pride,2.3.232
        And his old hate unto you; besides, forget not2.3.233
        With what contempt he wore the humble weed,2.3.234
        How in his suit he scorn'd you; but your loves,2.3.235
        Thinking upon his services, took from you2.3.236
        The apprehension of his present portance,2.3.237
        Which most gibingly, ungravely, he did fashion2.3.238
        After the inveterate hate he bears you. 2.3.239
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Sicinius. Say, you chose him2.3.244
        More after our commandment than as guided2.3.245
        By your own true affections, and that your minds,2.3.246
        Preoccupied with what you rather must do2.3.247
        Than what you should, made you against the grain2.3.248
        To voice him consul: lay the fault on us. 2.3.249
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Sicinius. One thus descended,2.3.261
        That hath beside well in his person wrought2.3.262
        To be set high in place, we did commend2.3.263
        To your remembrances: but you have found,2.3.264
        Scaling his present bearing with his past,2.3.265
        That he's your fixed enemy, and revoke2.3.266
        Your sudden approbation. 2.3.267
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Sicinius. To the Capitol, come:2.3.280
        We will be there before the stream o' the people;2.3.281
        And this shall seem, as partly 'tis, their own,2.3.282
        Which we have goaded onward.2.3.283

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Sicinius. Pass no further. 3.1.30
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Sicinius. Stop,3.1.40
        Or all will fall in broil. 3.1.41
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Sicinius. You show too much of that3.1.68
        For which the people stir: if you will pass3.1.69
        To where you are bound, you must inquire your way,3.1.70
        Which you are out of, with a gentler spirit,3.1.71
        Or never be so noble as a consul,3.1.72
        Nor yoke with him for tribune. 3.1.73
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Sicinius. 'Twere well3.1.106
        We let the people know't. 3.1.107
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Sicinius. It is a mind3.1.112
        That shall remain a poison where it is,3.1.113
        Not poison any further. 3.1.114
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Sicinius. Has spoken like a traitor, and shall answer3.1.199
        As traitors do. 3.1.200
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Sicinius. This a consul? no. 3.1.210
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Sicinius. Go, call the people:3.1.213

Exit AEdile

        in whose name myself3.1.214
        Attach thee as a traitorous innovator,3.1.215
        A foe to the public weal: obey, I charge thee,3.1.216
        And follow to thine answer. 3.1.217
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Sicinius. Help, ye citizens!3.1.223

Enter a rabble of Citizens (Plebeians), with the AEdiles

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Sicinius. Here's he that would take from you all your power. 3.1.225
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Sicinius. Hear me, people; peace! 3.1.236
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Sicinius. You are at point to lose your liberties:3.1.238
        Marcius would have all from you; Marcius,3.1.239
        Whom late you have named for consul. 3.1.240
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Sicinius. What is the city but the people? 3.1.244
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Sicinius. This deserves death. 3.1.255
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Sicinius. Therefore lay hold of him;3.1.261
        Bear him to the rock Tarpeian, and from thence3.1.262
        Into destruction cast him. 3.1.263
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Sicinius. Where is this viper3.1.330
        That would depopulate the city and3.1.331
        Be every man himself? 3.1.332
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Sicinius. He shall be thrown down the Tarpeian rock3.1.334
        With rigorous hands: he hath resisted law,3.1.335
        And therefore law shall scorn him further trial3.1.336
        Than the severity of the public power3.1.337
        Which he so sets at nought. 3.1.338
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Sicinius. Peace! 3.1.344
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Sicinius. Sir, how comes't that you3.1.347
        Have holp to make this rescue? 3.1.348
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Sicinius. Consul! what consul? 3.1.352
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Sicinius. Speak briefly then;3.1.360
        For we are peremptory to dispatch3.1.361
        This viperous traitor: to eject him hence3.1.362
        Were but one danger, and to keep him here3.1.363
        Our certain death: therefore it is decreed3.1.364
        He dies to-night. 3.1.365
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Sicinius. He's a disease that must be cut away. 3.1.371
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Sicinius. This is clean kam. 3.1.381
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Sicinius. What do ye talk?3.1.398
        Have we not had a taste of his obedience?3.1.399
        Our aediles smote? ourselves resisted? Come. 3.1.400
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Sicinius. Noble Menenius,3.1.412
        Be you then as the people's officer.3.1.413
        Masters, lay down your weapons. 3.1.414
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Sicinius. Meet on the market-place. We'll attend you there:3.1.416
        Where, if you bring not Marcius, we'll proceed3.1.417
        In our first way. 3.1.418
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Sicinius. Have you a catalogue3.3.11
        Of all the voices that we have procured3.3.12
        Set down by the poll? 3.3.13
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Sicinius. Have you collected them by tribes? 3.3.15
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Sicinius. Assemble presently the people hither;3.3.17
        And when they bear me say 'It shall be so3.3.18
        I' the right and strength o' the commons,' be it either3.3.19
        For death, for fine, or banishment, then let them3.3.20
        If I say fine, cry 'Fine;' if death, cry 'Death.'3.3.21
        Insisting on the old prerogative3.3.22
        And power i' the truth o' the cause. 3.3.23
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Sicinius. Make them be strong and ready for this hint,3.3.30
        When we shall hap to give 't them. 3.3.31
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Sicinius. Well, here he comes.3.3.39

Enter CORIOLANUS, MENENIUS, and COMINIUS, with Senators and Patricians

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Sicinius. Draw near, ye people. 3.3.49
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Sicinius. I do demand,3.3.55
        If you submit you to the people's voices,3.3.56
        Allow their officers and are content3.3.57
        To suffer lawful censure for such faults3.3.58
        As shall be proved upon you? 3.3.59
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Sicinius. Answer to us. 3.3.78
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Sicinius. We charge you, that you have contrived to take3.3.80
        From Rome all season'd office and to wind3.3.81
        Yourself into a power tyrannical;3.3.82
        For which you are a traitor to the people. 3.3.83
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Sicinius. Mark you this, people? 3.3.93
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Sicinius. Peace!3.3.95
        We need not put new matter to his charge:3.3.96
        What you have seen him do and heard him speak,3.3.97
        Beating your officers, cursing yourselves,3.3.98
        Opposing laws with strokes and here defying3.3.99
        Those whose great power must try him; even this,3.3.100
        So criminal and in such capital kind,3.3.101
        Deserves the extremest death. 3.3.102
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Sicinius. For that he has,3.3.117
        As much as in him lies, from time to time3.3.118
        Envied against the people, seeking means3.3.119
        To pluck away their power, as now at last3.3.120
        Given hostile strokes, and that not in the presence3.3.121
        Of dreaded justice, but on the ministers3.3.122
        That do distribute it; in the name o' the people3.3.123
        And in the power of us the tribunes, we,3.3.124
        Even from this instant, banish him our city,3.3.125
        In peril of precipitation3.3.126
        From off the rock Tarpeian never more3.3.127
        To enter our Rome gates: i' the people's name,3.3.128
        I say it shall be so. 3.3.129
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Sicinius. He's sentenced; no more hearing. 3.3.133
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Sicinius. We know your drift: speak what? 3.3.142
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Sicinius. Go, see him out at gates, and follow him,3.3.165
        As he hath followed you, with all despite;3.3.166
        Give him deserved vexation. Let a guard3.3.167
        Attend us through the city. 3.3.168
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Sicinius. Bid them all home; he's gone, and we'll no further.4.2.1
        The nobility are vex'd, whom we see have sided4.2.2
        In his behalf. 4.2.3
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Sicinius. Bid them home:4.2.7
        Say their great enemy is gone, and they4.2.8
        Stand in their ancient strength. 4.2.9
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Sicinius. Let's not meet her. 4.2.12
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Sicinius. They say she's mad. 4.2.14
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Sicinius. Are you mankind? 4.2.24
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Sicinius. O blessed heavens! 4.2.29
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Sicinius. What then? 4.2.35
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Sicinius. I would he had continued to his country4.2.41
        As he began, and not unknit himself4.2.42
        The noble knot he made. 4.2.43
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Sicinius. Why stay we to be baited4.2.57
        With one that wants her wits? 4.2.58
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Sicinius. We hear not of him, neither need we fear him;4.6.1
        His remedies are tame i' the present peace4.6.2
        And quietness of the people, which before4.6.3
        Were in wild hurry. Here do we make his friends4.6.4
        Blush that the world goes well, who rather had,4.6.5
        Though they themselves did suffer by't, behold4.6.6
        Dissentious numbers pestering streets than see4.6.7
        Our tradesmen with in their shops and going4.6.8
        About their functions friendly. 4.6.9
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Sicinius. 'Tis he,'tis he: O, he is grown most kind of late. 4.6.12
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Sicinius. Your Coriolanus4.6.15
        Is not much miss'd, but with his friends:4.6.16
        The commonwealth doth stand, and so would do,4.6.17
        Were he more angry at it. 4.6.18
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Sicinius. Where is he, hear you? 4.6.21
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Sicinius. God-den, our neighbours. 4.6.25
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Sicinius. Live, and thrive! 4.6.29
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Sicinius. This is a happier and more comely time4.6.34
        Than when these fellows ran about the streets,4.6.35
        Crying confusion. 4.6.36
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Sicinius. And affecting one sole throne,4.6.41
        Without assistance. 4.6.42
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Sicinius. We should by this, to all our lamentation,4.6.44
        If he had gone forth consul, found it so. 4.6.45
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Sicinius. Come, what talk you4.6.59
        Of Marcius? 4.6.60
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Sicinius. Tell not me:4.6.71
        I know this cannot be. 4.6.72
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Sicinius. 'Tis this slave;--4.6.77
        Go whip him, 'fore the people's eyes:--his raising;4.6.78
        Nothing but his report. 4.6.79
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Sicinius. What more fearful? 4.6.83
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Sicinius. This is most likely! 4.6.89
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Sicinius. The very trick on't. 4.6.92
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Sicinius. Go, masters, get you home; be not dismay'd:4.6.187
        These are a side that would be glad to have4.6.188
        This true which they so seem to fear. Go home,4.6.189
        And show no sign of fear. 4.6.190
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Sicinius. Nor I. 4.6.196
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Sicinius. Pray, let us go.4.6.199

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Sicinius. Nay, pray, be patient: if you refuse your aid5.1.37
        In this so never-needed help, yet do not5.1.38
        Upbraid's with our distress. But, sure, if you5.1.39
        Would be your country's pleader, your good tongue,5.1.40
        More than the instant army we can make,5.1.41
        Might stop our countryman. 5.1.42
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Sicinius. Pray you, go to him. 5.1.44
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Sicinius. Yet your good will5.1.53
        must have that thanks from Rome, after the measure5.1.54
        As you intended well. 5.1.55
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Sicinius. Not? 5.1.74
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Sicinius Why, what of that? 5.4.3
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Sicinius. Is't possible that so short a time can alter the5.4.9
        condition of a man! 5.4.10
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Sicinius. He loved his mother dearly. 5.4.15
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Sicinius. Yes, mercy, if you report him truly. 5.4.26
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Sicinius. The gods be good unto us! 5.4.32
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Sicinius. What's the news? 5.4.41
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Sicinius. Friend,5.4.46
        Art thou certain this is true? is it most certain? 5.4.47
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Sicinius. First, the gods bless you for your tidings; next,5.4.62
        Accept my thankfulness. 5.4.63
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Sicinius. They are near the city? 5.4.66
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Sicinius. We will meet them,5.4.68
        And help the joy.5.4.69

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