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William Shakespeare (1564–1616). The Oxford Shakespeare. 1914.

Act I. Scene VII.

Coriolanus

The Gates of Corioli.

TITUS LARTIUS, having set a guard upon CORIOLI, going with drum and trumpet towards COMINIUS and CAIUS MARCIUS, enters with a Lieutenant, a party of Soldiers, and a Scout.

Lart.So; let the ports be guarded: keep your duties,

As I have set them down. If I do send, dispatch

Those centuries to our aid; the rest will serve

For a short holding: if we lose the field,

We cannot keep the town.

Lieu.Fear not our care, sir.

Lart.Hence, and shut your gates upon us.

Our guider, come; to the Roman camp conduct us.[Exeunt.