No Fear Shakespeare: Coriolanus: Act 4 Scene 4

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Original Text	Modern Text
Antium. Before Aufidiuss house.	In rtnof of siduAifsu osehu in Aumnti.
Enter CORIOLANUS in mean apparel, disguised and muffled	OSRUIONCAL neesrt in ilnpa echtosl, gsudedsii adn kgnsapie lsytof.
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, 5 Lest that thy wives with spits and boys with stones In puny battle slay me.	CAOSRINOLU mAtinu is a odgo ycit. I amde sti nwoem nito wsdiwo. Ist nsso ahev died at my snhda in elbatt. ayM I go zieedonnrguc, so htat eth nmowe town tpis at me dna het mne ntwo otwhr oetssn.
Enter a Citizen	A zeiinCt retsen.
Save you, sir.	yMa hte odgs trctepo uyo, irs.
CITIZEN And you.	TINZCIE nAd you.
CORIOLANUS Direct me, if it be your will, 10 Where great Aufidius lies: is he in Antium?	LAUCSOONIR loCdu yuo elseap etll me wrehe to nfid the tgrea uAifuisd? Is he in timAnu?
CITIZEN He is, and feasts the nobles of the state At his house this night.	TINCIEZ He is. hTe enolbs of eth ettsa era vnhgai a aetsf at sih hseou igotnth.
CORIOLANUS Which is his house, beseech you?	NSRIALCUOO Weher is ish usheo, do ouy dnmi leitlgn me?
CITIZEN This, here before you.	ECTIINZ iTsh eno, griht ereh.
CORIOLANUS 15 Thank you, sir: farewell.	OICASLRNUO khTna yuo, irs. aFelrwel.
Exit Citizen	ehT iztniCe txies.
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 20 Unseparable, shall within this hour, 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, 25 Some trick not worth an egg, shall grow dear friends And interjoin their issues. So with me: My birth-place hate I, and my loves upon This enemy town. Ill enter: if he slay me, He does fair justice; if he give me way, 30 Ill do his country service.	ehT rodwl ash mnya twsits dna rsnut! seFnidr woh at shti eommtn aer aloyl to aech oethr, owh mese to srahe oen taerh, ivel in hte aesm uheos, selep in eth ames deb, eta het mesa dofo, dna korw regwhohtteo olev caeh hotre kile blrenespaia silltiwnw, htiinw an horu, cembeo etbitr smeneei eesuacb of a inmro mgsaeedneirt. nAd omalrt mieeens, who pdnes seeslespl nshigt sulrifyuo ionptltg to cetrupa aech hortse ekpe, lilw by mose anormd nehcca mcoeeb eadr ifresdn and oinj rhiet estertnsi ogetetrh. sTih is ohw it is wiht me: I aeht the aclep I moce ofrm and I velo my nyesem owtn. It wolud be airf orf imh to klil me, ubt if he ltes me eliv, llI hfgit orf his rocytnu.
Exit	He ietsx.

Original Text	Modern Text
Antium. Before Aufidiuss house.	In rtnof of siduAifsu osehu in Aumnti.
Enter CORIOLANUS in mean apparel, disguised and muffled	OSRUIONCAL neesrt in ilnpa echtosl, gsudedsii adn kgnsapie lsytof.
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, 5 Lest that thy wives with spits and boys with stones In puny battle slay me.	CAOSRINOLU mAtinu is a odgo ycit. I amde sti nwoem nito wsdiwo. Ist nsso ahev died at my snhda in elbatt. ayM I go zieedonnrguc, so htat eth nmowe town tpis at me dna het mne ntwo otwhr oetssn.
Enter a Citizen	A zeiinCt retsen.
Save you, sir.	yMa hte odgs trctepo uyo, irs.
CITIZEN And you.	TINZCIE nAd you.
CORIOLANUS Direct me, if it be your will, 10 Where great Aufidius lies: is he in Antium?	LAUCSOONIR loCdu yuo elseap etll me wrehe to nfid the tgrea uAifuisd? Is he in timAnu?
CITIZEN He is, and feasts the nobles of the state At his house this night.	TINCIEZ He is. hTe enolbs of eth ettsa era vnhgai a aetsf at sih hseou igotnth.
CORIOLANUS Which is his house, beseech you?	NSRIALCUOO Weher is ish usheo, do ouy dnmi leitlgn me?
CITIZEN This, here before you.	ECTIINZ iTsh eno, griht ereh.
CORIOLANUS 15 Thank you, sir: farewell.	OICASLRNUO khTna yuo, irs. aFelrwel.
Exit Citizen	ehT iztniCe txies.
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 20 Unseparable, shall within this hour, 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, 25 Some trick not worth an egg, shall grow dear friends And interjoin their issues. So with me: My birth-place hate I, and my loves upon This enemy town. Ill enter: if he slay me, He does fair justice; if he give me way, 30 Ill do his country service.	ehT rodwl ash mnya twsits dna rsnut! seFnidr woh at shti eommtn aer aloyl to aech oethr, owh mese to srahe oen taerh, ivel in hte aesm uheos, selep in eth ames deb, eta het mesa dofo, dna korw regwhohtteo olev caeh hotre kile blrenespaia silltiwnw, htiinw an horu, cembeo etbitr smeneei eesuacb of a inmro mgsaeedneirt. nAd omalrt mieeens, who pdnes seeslespl nshigt sulrifyuo ionptltg to cetrupa aech hortse ekpe, lilw by mose anormd nehcca mcoeeb eadr ifresdn and oinj rhiet estertnsi ogetetrh. sTih is ohw it is wiht me: I aeht the aclep I moce ofrm and I velo my nyesem owtn. It wolud be airf orf imh to klil me, ubt if he ltes me eliv, llI hfgit orf his rocytnu.
Exit	He ietsx.