Act 1, Scene 7
The gates of Corioles.
TITUS LARTIUS, having set a guard upon Corioles, going with drum and trumpet toward COMINIUS and CAIUS MARCIUS, enters with a Lieutenant, other Soldiers, and a Scout.
Lartius
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.
Lieutenant
Fear not our care, sir.
Lartius
Hence, and shut your gates upon's.
Our guider, come; to the Roman camp conduct us. Exeunt.