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Third Servingman. What fellow's this? 4.5.18
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Third Servingman. What have you to do here, fellow? Pray you, avoid4.5.21
        the house. 4.5.22
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Third Servingman. What are you? 4.5.24
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Third Servingman. A marvellous poor one. 4.5.26
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Third Servingman. Pray you, poor gentleman, take up some other4.5.28
        station; here's no place for you; pray you, avoid: come. 4.5.29
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Third Servingman. What, you will not? Prithee, tell my master what a4.5.31
        strange guest he has here. 4.5.32
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Third Servingman. Where dwellest thou? 4.5.34
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Third Servingman. Under the canopy! 4.5.36
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Third Servingman. Where's that? 4.5.38
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Third Servingman. I' the city of kites and crows! What an ass it is!4.5.40
        Then thou dwellest with daws too? 4.5.41
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Third Servingman. How, sir! do you meddle with my master? 4.5.43
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Third Servingman. O slaves, I can tell you news,-- news, you rascals! 4.5.174
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Third Servingman. I would not be a Roman, of all nations; I had as4.5.176
        lieve be a condemned man. 4.5.177
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Third Servingman. Why, here's he that was wont to thwack our general,4.5.179
        Caius Marcius. 4.5.180
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Third Servingman. I do not say 'thwack our general;' but he was always4.5.182
        good enough for him. 4.5.183
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Third Servingman. Why, he is so made on here within, as if he were son4.5.192
        and heir to Mars; set at upper end o' the table; no4.5.193
        question asked him by any of the senators, but they4.5.194
        stand bald before him: our general himself makes a4.5.195
        mistress of him: sanctifies himself with's hand and4.5.196
        turns up the white o' the eye to his discourse. But4.5.197
        the bottom of the news is that our general is cut i'4.5.198
        the middle and but one half of what he was4.5.199
        yesterday; for the other has half, by the entreaty4.5.200
        and grant of the whole table. He'll go, he says,4.5.201
        and sowl the porter of Rome gates by the ears: he4.5.202
        will mow all down before him, and leave his passage polled. 4.5.203
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Third Servingman. Do't! he will do't; for, look you, sir, he has as4.5.205
        many friends as enemies; which friends, sir, as it4.5.206
        were, durst not, look you, sir, show themselves, as4.5.207
        we term it, his friends whilst he's in directitude. 4.5.208
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Third Servingman. But when they shall see, sir, his crest up again,4.5.210
        and the man in blood, they will out of their4.5.211
        burrows, like conies after rain, and revel all with4.5.212
        him. 4.5.213
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Third Servingman. To-morrow; to-day; presently; you shall have the4.5.215
        drum struck up this afternoon: 'tis, as it were, a4.5.216
        parcel of their feast, and to be executed ere they4.5.217
        wipe their lips. 4.5.218
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Third Servingman. Reason; because they then less need one another.4.5.231
        The wars for my money. I hope to see Romans as cheap4.5.232
        as Volscians. They are rising, they are rising. 4.5.233
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