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| <tr><td class="play" align="center">The Tragedy of Coriolanus | |
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| <H3>SCENE IV. Antium. Before Aufidius's house.</h3> | |
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| <i>Enter CORIOLANUS in mean apparel, disguised and muffled</i> | |
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| <A NAME=speech1><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=1>A goodly city is this Antium. City,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2>'Tis I that made thy widows: many an heir</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3>Of these fair edifices 'fore my wars</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4>Have I heard groan and drop: then know me not,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5>Lest that thy wives with spits and boys with stones</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=6>In puny battle slay me.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter a Citizen</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=7>Save you, sir.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech2><b>Citizen</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=8>And you.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech3><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=9> Direct me, if it be your will,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=10>Where great Aufidius lies: is he in Antium?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech4><b>Citizen</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=11>He is, and feasts the nobles of the state</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=12>At his house this night.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech5><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=13>Which is his house, beseech you?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech6><b>Citizen</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=14>This, here before you.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech7><b>CORIOLANUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=15>Thank you, sir: farewell.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit Citizen</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=16>O world, thy slippery turns! Friends now fast sworn,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=17>Whose double bosoms seem to wear one heart,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=18>Whose house, whose bed, whose meal, and exercise,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=19>Are still together, who twin, as 'twere, in love</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=20>Unseparable, shall within this hour,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=21>On a dissension of a doit, break out</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=22>To bitterest enmity: so, fellest foes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=23>Whose passions and whose plots have broke their sleep,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=24>To take the one the other, by some chance,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=25>Some trick not worth an egg, shall grow dear friends</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=26>And interjoin their issues. So with me:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=27>My birth-place hate I, and my love's upon</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=28>This enemy town. I'll enter: if he slay me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=29>He does fair justice; if he give me way,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=30>I'll do his country service.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
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