Act IV, Scene 4

Antium. Before Aufidius’s house.

[Enter CORIOLANUS in mean apparel, disguised] [p]and muffled]

• 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,
  Lest that thy wives with spits and boys with stones 2720
  In puny battle slay me.
  [Enter a Citizen]
  Save you, sir.

• Citizen. And you.

• Coriolanus. Direct me, if it be your will, 2725
  Where great Aufidius lies: is he in Antium?

• Citizen. He is, and feasts the nobles of the state
  At his house this night.

• Coriolanus. Which is his house, beseech you?

• Citizen. This, here before you. 2730

• Coriolanus. Thank you, sir: farewell.
  [Exit Citizen]
  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, 2735
  Are still together, who twin, as 'twere, in love
  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, 2740
  To take the one the other, by some chance,
  Some trick not worth an egg, shall grow dear friends
  And interjoin their issues. So with me:
  My birth-place hate I, and my love's upon
  This enemy town. I'll enter: if he slay me, 2745
  He does fair justice; if he give me way,
  I'll do his country service.

[Exit]