Coriolanus
| ACT I SCENE VIII. A field of battle. | ||
| [ Alarum as in battle. Enter, from opposite sides, MARCIUS and AUFIDIUS ] | ||
| MARCIUS | I’ll fight with none but thee; for I do hate thee | |
| Worse than a promise-breaker. | ||
| AUFIDIUS | We hate alike: | |
| Not Afric owns a serpent I abhor | ||
| More than thy fame and envy. Fix thy foot. | 5 | |
| MARCIUS | Let the first budger die the other’s slave, | |
| And the gods doom him after! | ||
| AUFIDIUS | If I fly, Marcius, | |
| Holloa me like a hare. | ||
| MARCIUS | Within these three hours, Tullus, | 10 |
| Alone I fought in your Corioli walls, | ||
| And made what work I pleased: ’tis not my blood | ||
| Wherein thou seest me mask’d; for thy revenge | ||
| Wrench up thy power to the highest. | ||
| AUFIDIUS | Wert thou the Hector | 15 |
| That was the whip of your bragg’d progeny, | ||
| Thou shouldst not scape me here. | ||
| [ They fight, and certain Volsces come to the aid of AUFIDIUS. MARCIUS fights till they be driven in breathless ] | ||
| Officious, and not valiant, you have shamed me | ||
| In your condemned seconds. | ||
| [Exeunt] | ||
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