1    I know you well, sir, and you know
2    me: your name, I think, is Adrian.

3    It is so, sir: truly, I have forgot you.

4    I am a Roman; and my services are,
5    as you are, against 'em: know you me yet?

6    Nicanor? no.

7    The same, sir.

8    You had more beard when I last saw you; but your
9    favour is well approved by your tongue. What's the
10   news in Rome? I have a note from the Volscian state,
11   to find you out there: you have well saved me a
12   day's journey.

13   There hath been in Rome strange insurrections; the
14   people against the senators, patricians, and nobles.

15   Hath been! is it ended, then? Our state thinks not
16   so: they are in a most warlike preparation, and
17   hope to come upon them in the heat of their division.

18   The main blaze of it is past, but a small thing
19   would make it flame again: for the nobles receive
20   so to heart the banishment of that worthy
21   Coriolanus, that they are in a ripe aptness to take
22   all power from the people and to pluck from them
23   their tribunes for ever. This lies glowing, I can
24   tell you, and is almost mature for the violent
25   breaking out.

26   Coriolanus banished!

27   Banished, sir.

28   You will be welcome with this intelligence, Nicanor.

29   The day serves well for them now. I have heard it
30   said, the fittest time to corrupt a man's wife is
31   when she's fallen out with her husband. Your noble
32   Tullus Aufidius will appear well in these wars, his
33   great opposer, Coriolanus, being now in no request
34   of his country.

35   He cannot choose. I am most fortunate, thus
36   accidentally to encounter you: you have ended my
37   business, and I will merrily accompany you home.

38   I shall, between this and supper, tell you most
39   strange things from Rome; all tending to the good of
40   their adversaries. Have you an army ready, say you?

41   A most royal one; the centurions and their charges,
42   distinctly billeted, already in the entertainment,
43   and to be on foot at an hour's warning.

44   I am joyful to hear of their readiness, and am the
45   man, I think, that shall set them in present action.
46   So, sir, heartily well met, and most glad of your company.

47   You take my part from me, sir; I have the most cause
48   to be glad of yours.

49   Well, let us go together.