The Tragedy Of Coriolanus

1 Enter Coriolanus in mean apparel, disguised and muffled.
2 CORIOLANUS.
3 A goodly city is this Antium. City,
4 ’Tis I that made thy widows. Many an heir
5 Of these fair edifices ’fore my wars
6 Have I heard groan and drop. Then know me not,
7 Lest that thy wives with spits and boys with stones
8 In puny battle slay me.
9 Enter a Citizen.
10 Save you, sir.
11 CITIZEN.
12 And you.
13 CORIOLANUS.
14 Direct me, if it be your will,
15 Where great Aufidius lies. Is he in Antium?
16 CITIZEN.
17 He is, and feasts the nobles of the state
18 At his house this night.
19 CORIOLANUS.
20 Which is his house, beseech you?
21 CITIZEN.
22 This here before you.
23 CORIOLANUS.
24 Thank you, sir. Farewell.
25 [_Exit Citizen._]
26 O world, thy slippery turns! Friends now fast sworn,
27 Whose double bosoms seems to wear one heart,
28 Whose hours, whose bed, whose meal and exercise
29 Are still together, who twin, as ’twere, in love
30 Unseparable, shall within this hour,
31 On a dissension of a doit, break out
32 To bitterest enmity; so fellest foes,
33 Whose passions and whose plots have broke their sleep
34 To take the one the other, by some chance,
35 Some trick not worth an egg, shall grow dear friends
36 And interjoin their issues. So with me:
37 My birthplace hate I, and my love’s upon
38 This enemy town. I’ll enter. If he slay me,
39 He does fair justice; if he give me way,
40 I’ll do his country service.
41 [_Exit._]