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  "FIRST CITIZEN. Before we proceed any further, hear me speak.

  ALL. Speak, speak.

  FIRST CITIZEN. YOU are all resolv'd rather to die than to famish?

  ALL. Resolv'd, resolv'd.

  FIRST CITIZEN. First, you know Caius Marcius is chief enemy to the

    people.

  ALL. We know't, we know't.

  FIRST CITIZEN. Let us kill him, and we'll have corn at our own

    price. Is't a verdict?

  ALL. No more talking on't; let it be done. Away, away!

  SECOND CITIZEN. One word, good citizens.

  FIRST CITIZEN. We are accounted poor citizens, the patricians good.

    What authority surfeits on would relieve us; if they would yield

    us but the superfluity while it were wholesome, we might guess

    they relieved us humanely; but they think we are too dear…”