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MENENIUS: |
Fie, fie, fie! |
Roman: |
I know you well, sir, and you know |
me: your name, I think, is Adrian. |
Volsce: |
It is so, sir: truly, I have forgot you. |
Roman: |
I am a Roman; and my services are, |
as you are, against 'em: know you me yet? |
Volsce: |
Nicanor? no. |
Roman: |
The same, sir. |
Volsce: |
You had more beard when I last saw you; but your |
favour is well approved by your tongue. What's the |
news in Rome? I have a note from the Volscian state, |
to find you out there: you have well saved me a |
day's journey. |
Roman: |
There hath been in Rome strange insurrections; the |
people against the senators, patricians, and nobles. |
Volsce: |
Hath been! is it ended, then? Our state thinks not |
so: they are in a most warlike preparation, and |
hope to come upon them in the heat of their division. |
Roman: |
The main blaze of it is past, but a small thing |
would make it flame again: for the nobles receive |
so to heart the banishment of that worthy |
Coriolanus, that they are in a ripe aptness to take |
all power from the people and to pluck from them |
their tribunes for ever. This lies glowing, I can |
tell you, and is almost mature for the violent |
breaking out. |
Volsce: |
Coriolanus banished! |
Roman: |
Banished, sir. |
Volsce: |
You will be welcome with this intelligence, Nicanor. |
Roman: |
The day serves well for them now. I have heard it |
said, the fittest time to corrupt a man's wife is |
when she's fallen out with her husband. Your noble |
Tullus Aufidius will appear well in these wars, his |
great opposer, Coriolanus, being now in no request |
of his country. |
Volsce: |
He cannot choose. I am most fortunate, thus |
accidentally to encounter you: you have ended my |
business, and I will merrily accompany you home. |
Roman: |
I shall, between this and supper, tell you most |
strange things from Rome; all tending to the good of |
their adversaries. Have you an army ready, say you? |
Volsce: |
A most royal one; the centurions and their charges, |
distinctly billeted, already in the entertainment, |
and to be on foot at an hour's warning. |
Roman: |
I am joyful to hear of their readiness, and am the |
man, I think, that shall set them in present action. |
So, sir, heartily well met, and most glad of your company. |
Volsce: |
You take my part from me, sir; I have the most cause |
to be glad of yours. |
Roman: |
Well, let us go together. |
CORIOLANUS: |
A goodly city is this Antium. City, |
'Tis I that made thy widows: many an heir |
Of these fair edifices 'fore my wars |
Have I heard groan and drop: then know me not, |
Lest that thy wives with spits and boys with stones |
In puny battle slay me. |
Save you, sir. |
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