Coriolanus
| ACT IV SCENE IV. Antium. Before Aufidius’s house. | ||
| [ Enter CORIOLANUS in mean apparel, disguised and muffled ] | ||
| 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 | 5 | |
| In puny battle slay me. | ||
| [Enter a Citizen] | ||
| Save you, sir. | ||
| Citizen | And you. | |
| CORIOLANUS | Direct me, if it be your will, | |
| Where great Aufidius lies: is he in Antium? | 10 | |
| Citizen | He is, and feasts the nobles of the state | |
| At his house this night. | ||
| CORIOLANUS | Which is his house, beseech you? | |
| Citizen | This, here before you. | |
| CORIOLANUS | Thank you, sir: farewell. | 15 |
| [Exit Citizen] | ||
| O world, thy slippery turns! Friends now fast sworn, | ||
| Whose double bosoms seem to wear one heart, | ||
| Whose house, whose bed, whose meal, and exercise, | ||
| Are still together, who twin, as ’twere, in love | ||
| Unseparable, shall within this hour, | 20 | |
| On a dissension of a doit, break out | ||
| To bitterest enmity: so, fellest foes, | ||
| Whose passions and whose plots have broke their sleep, | ||
| To take the one the other, by some chance, | ||
| Some trick not worth an egg, shall grow dear friends | 25 | |
| And interjoin their issues. So with me: | ||
| My birth-place hate I, and my love’s upon | ||
| This enemy town. I’ll enter: if he slay me, | ||
| He does fair justice; if he give me way, | ||
| I’ll do his country service. | 30 | |
| [Exit] | ||
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