Fabiola Ngekoh
Jun 9
Coriolanus by William Shakespeare Act 4 scene 1, Rome. The city gates. Enter Coriolanus, Virgilia and Columbia?
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In Act 5, scene 1 of Coriolanus by William Shakespeare, Coriolanus is banished from Rome after being accused of treason. He is devastated by this decision and vows revenge against the city that has turned against him. Despite the pleas of his family and friends, Coriolanus remains resolute in his decision to seek vengeance. The scene is filled with tension and emotion as Coriolanus grapples with his feelings of betrayal and anger.
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Jun 9
Scene 1
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Rome. A public place.
Enter MENENIUS and SICINIUS.
MENENIUS
The augurer tells me we shall have news tonight.
SICINIUS
Good or bad?
MENENIUS
Not according to the prayer of the people, for they love not Marcius.
SICINIUS
Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.
MENENIUS
Pray you, who does the wolf love?
SICINIUS
The lamb.
MENENIUS
Ay, to eat it.
SICINIUS
Well, let's leave him, and follow our disposition, whereto our nature inclines us most. I'll tell thee what: if he had tarried here in Rome, he had worn out his welcome in a month.
MENENIUS
Certain.
SICINIUS
Nay, thou shalt not say so. He has been a worthy friend to thee: and, but for thy love of him, the people had let fall their sentence long ago.
MENENIUS
I love him, as he is worthy.
SICINIUS
So do I too: but yet, like thee, I cannot defend the journey he hath made towards the Volscians.
MENENIUS
I'll lack's.
SICINIUS
It was dangerous to go: and therefore we opposed it.
MENENIUS
It is dangerous to stand out against the people; and therefore I obeyed them.
SICINIUS
And so do all true men else.
MENENIUS
True: and therefore thy father did not what he should have done.
SICINIUS
What?
MENENIUS
To have respected the remainders of his fortune, and have subjected the arrogance of his son, who made my sister his fool, and after did divorce her.
SICINIUS
Why, this was most unkindly done; but she deserved to have it so.
MENENIUS
Undoubtedly she did: and I have not seldom told the very same to Coriolanus; but to self-loving pride dishonesty is nothing and he still put it off with "a better, that shall not be short in it."
SICINIUS
And so I wish that all, but he, had:
Enter a MESSENGER.
MESSENGER
News from the Volscians.
MENENIUS
Nay, I pr'ythee, come in.
Exeunt.
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Rome. A public place.
Enter MENENIUS and SICINIUS.
MENENIUS
The augurer tells me we shall have news tonight.
SICINIUS
Good or bad?
MENENIUS
Not according to the prayer of the people, for they love not Marcius.
SICINIUS
Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.
MENENIUS
Pray you, who does the wolf love?
SICINIUS
The lamb.
MENENIUS
Ay, to eat it.
SICINIUS
Well, let's leave him, and follow our disposition, whereto our nature inclines us most. I'll tell thee what: if he had tarried here in Rome, he had worn out his welcome in a month.
MENENIUS
Certain.
SICINIUS
Nay, thou shalt not say so. He has been a worthy friend to thee: and, but for thy love of him, the people had let fall their sentence long ago.
MENENIUS
I love him, as he is worthy.
SICINIUS
So do I too: but yet, like thee, I cannot defend the journey he hath made towards the Volscians.
MENENIUS
I'll lack's.
SICINIUS
It was dangerous to go: and therefore we opposed it.
MENENIUS
It is dangerous to stand out against the people; and therefore I obeyed them.
SICINIUS
And so do all true men else.
MENENIUS
True: and therefore thy father did not what he should have done.
SICINIUS
What?
MENENIUS
To have respected the remainders of his fortune, and have subjected the arrogance of his son, who made my sister his fool, and after did divorce her.
SICINIUS
Why, this was most unkindly done; but she deserved to have it so.
MENENIUS
Undoubtedly she did: and I have not seldom told the very same to Coriolanus; but to self-loving pride dishonesty is nothing and he still put it off with "a better, that shall not be short in it."
SICINIUS
And so I wish that all, but he, had:
Enter a MESSENGER.
MESSENGER
News from the Volscians.
MENENIUS
Nay, I pr'ythee, come in.
Exeunt.
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