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The same. A hall in Aufidius’s house.
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A hall in Aufidius’s house.
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Music within. Enter a Servingman
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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
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He exits.
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Enter a second Servingman
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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
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He exits.
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Enter CORIOLANUS
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CORIOLANUS enters.
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CORIOLANUS
5A 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
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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
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He exits.
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CORIOLANUS I have deserved no better entertainment,
10In 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
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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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