QUOTES FROM THE BARD

PLAY: Coriolanus ACT/SCENE: 1.6 SPEAKER: Marcius CONTEXT: COMINIUS
Flower of warriors,
How is it with Titus Lartius?
MARCIUS
As with a man busied about decrees:
Condemning some to death, and some to exile;
Ransoming him, or pitying, threatening the other;
Holding Corioli in the name of Rome,
Even like a fawning greyhound in the leash,
To let him slip at will.
COMINIUS
Where is that slave
Which told me they had beat you to your trenches?
Where is he? call him hither.
MARCIUS
Let him alone;
He did inform the truth: but for our gentlemen,
The common file—a plague! tribunes for them!—
The mouse ne’er shunn’d the cat as they did budge
From rascals worse than they.
COMINIUS
But how prevail’d you?
MARCIUS
Will the time serve to tell? I do not think.
Where is the enemy? are you lords o’ the field?
If not, why cease you till you are so? DUTCH: Als een, die tal van zaken ordent, dezen
Ter dood doemt, dien verbant, een and’ren dreigt,
Dien tegen losgeld of meêdoogend vrijlaat; MORE: Flower=Most distinguished, greatest
Busied about=Occupied with
Inform=Tell
File=Soldiers
Budge=Flinch
Compleat:
To busy himself=Zich bemoeijen
To inform=Onderrechten, kundschap geeven, aanbrengen, bedraagen, verklikken; bevormen
A file of soldiers=Een gelid of ry soldaaten
Budge=Schudden, omroeren, beweegen Topics: news, communication