The Tragedy of Coriolanus: ACT IV
Introduction ACT I ACT II ACT III ACT IV SCENE I. Rome. Before a gate of the city. SCENE II. The same. A street near the gate. SCENE III. A highway between Rome and Antium. SCENE IV. Antium. Before Aufidius's house. SCENE V. The same. A hall in Aufidius's house. SCENE VI. Rome. A public place. SCENE VII. A camp, at a small distance from Rome. ACT V About the Play Feedback			Search: All the plays Hamlet Coriolanus Julius Caesar King Lear Macbeth Othello Romeo and Juliet Richard II Richard III Titus Andronicus Antony and Cleopatra Timon of Athens Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part 2 Henry the Fifth Henry VI Part 1 Henry VI Part 2 Henry VI Part 3 Henry VIII King John Pericles Troilus and Cressida All's Well... As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Cymbeline A Midsummer... Love's Labour's Lost Measure for Measure The Merry Wives... Much Ado about Nothing The Merchant of Venice Twelfth Night The Taming of... The Tempest The Two Gentlemen... The Winter's Tale    for: SCENE III. A highway between Rome and Antium. Enter a Roman and a Volsce, meeting 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, 5     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 10    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 15    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 20    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 25    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 30    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 35    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 40    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 45    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. Exeunt Return to top of page ... or ... Go to next scene