Vols. It is so, sir: truly, I have forgot you.
Rom. I am a Roman; and my services are, as you are,[3471]
against 'em: know you me yet?[3472] 5
Vols. Nicanor? no.[3473]
Rom. The same, sir.
Vols. You had more beard when I last saw you; but
your favour is well appeared by your tongue. What's the[3474]
news in Rome? I have a note from the Volscian state, to 10
find you out there: you have well saved me a day's journey.[3475]
Rom. There hath been in Rome strange insurrections;[3476]
the people against the senators, patricians and nobles.
Vols. Hath been! is it ended then? Our state thinks[3477]
not so: they are in a most warlike preparation, and hope 15
to come upon them in the heat of their division.
Rom. The main blaze of it is past, but a small thing
would make it flame again: for the nobles receive so to
heart the banishment of that worthy Coriolanus, that they
are in a ripe aptness to take all power from the people and 20
to pluck from them their tribunes for ever. This lies glowing,
I can tell you, and is almost mature for the violent
breaking out.
Vols. Coriolanus banished!
Rom. Banished, sir. 25