Original Text | Modern Text | |
The same. A hall in Aufidius’s house. | A hall in Aufidius’s house. | |
Music within. Enter a Servingman | Music plays offstage. A Servant enters. | |
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FIRST SERVINGMAN
Wine, wine, wine! What service
is here! I think our fellows are asleep.
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FIRST SERVANT
Wine, wine, wine! What kind of service is this? I think the other servants are asleep.
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Exit | He exits. | |
Enter a second Servingman | A Second Servant enters. | |
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SECOND SERVINGMAN
Where’s Cotus? my master calls
for him. Cotus!
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SECOND SERVANT
Where’s Cotus? My master calls for him. Cotus!
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Exit | He exits. | |
Enter CORIOLANUS
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CORIOLANUS enters. | |
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CORIOLANUS
A goodly house: the feast smells well; but I
Appear not like a guest.
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CORIOLANUS
This is a good house. The feast smells good, but I don’t look like a guest.
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Re-enter the first Servingman | The First Servant reenters. | |
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FIRST SERVINGMAN
What would you have, friend? whence are you?
Here’s no place for you: pray, go to the door.
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FIRST SERVANT
What are you doing here, friend? Where are you from? This is no place for you. Please leave.
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Exit | He exits. | |
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CORIOLANUS
I have deserved no better entertainment,
In being Coriolanus.
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CORIOLANUS
I wouldn’t be welcomed any better if they knew I were Coriolanus.
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Re-enter second Servingman | The Second Servant reenters. | |
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SECOND SERVINGMAN
Whence are you, sir? Has the porter his eyes in his
head; that he gives entrance to such companions?
Pray, get you out.
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SECOND SERVANT
Where are you from, sir? Is the porter blind to let someone like you in? Please, get out.
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CORIOLANUS
Away!
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CORIOLANUS
Go away!
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