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Excerpt - Act 4, Scene 7
AUFIDIUS
  1. All places yield to him ere he sits down;
  2. And the nobility of Rome are his:
  3. The senators and patricians love him too:
  4. The tribunes are no soldiers; and their people
  5. Will be as rash in the repeal, as hasty
  6. To expel him thence. I think he'll be to Rome
  7. As is the osprey to the fish, who takes it
  8. By sovereignty of nature. First he was
  9. A noble servant to them; but he could not
  10. Carry his honours even: whether 'twas pride,
  11. Which out of daily fortune ever taints
  12. The happy man; whether defect of judgment,
  13. To fail in the disposing of those chances
  14. Which he was lord of; or whether nature,
  15. Not to be other than one thing, not moving
  16. From the casque to the cushion, but commanding peace
  17. Even with the same austerity and garb
  18. As he controll'd the war; but one of these--
  19. As he hath spices of them all, not all,
  20. For I dare so far free him--made him fear'd,
  21. So hated, and so banish'd: but he has a merit,
  22. To choke it in the utterance. So our virtues
  23. Lie in the interpretation of the time:
  24. And power, unto itself most commendable,
  25. Hath not a tomb so evident as a chair
  26. To extol what it hath done.
  27. One fire drives out one fire; one nail, one nail;
  28. Rights by rights falter, strengths by strengths do fail.
  29. Come, let's away. When, Caius, Rome is thine,
  30. Thou art poor'st of all; then shortly art thou mine.

Exeunt

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