A Highway between Rome and Antium.
 Enter a ROMAN and a VOLSCE.

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

Volsce	It is so, sir; truly I have forgot you.

Roman	I am a Roman, and my services are, as you are, against 'em. 
	Know you me yet?

Volsce	Nicanor - no?

Roman	The same, sir.

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

Roman	There hath been in Rome strange insurrections: the people 
	against the Senators, patricians and nobles.

Volsce	Hath been? Is it ended then? Our state thinks not so; they 
	are in a most warlike preparation, and hope to come upon 
	them in the heat of their division.

Roman	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 to 
	pluck from them their Tribunes for ever. This lies glowing, 
	I can tell you, and is almost mature for the violent 
	breaking out.

Volsce	Coriolanus banished?

Roman	Banished, sir.

Volsce	You will be welcome with this intelligence, Nicanor.

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

Volsce	He cannot choose. I am most fortunate, thus accidentally to 
	encounter you. You have ended my business, and I will 
	merrily accompany you home.

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

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

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

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

Roman	Well, let us go together.
												[Exeunt.
