QUOTES FROM THE BARD

PLAY: Coriolanus ACT/SCENE: 2.2 SPEAKER: Brutus CONTEXT: FIRST SENATOR
Speak, good Cominius:
Leave nothing out for length, and make us think
Rather our state’s defective for requital
Than we to stretch it out.
Masters o’ the people,
We do request your kindest ears, and after,
Your loving motion toward the common body,
To yield what passes here.
SICINIUS
We are convented
Upon a pleasing treaty, and have hearts
Inclinable to honour and advance
The theme of our assembly.
BRUTUS
Which the rather
We shall be blest to do, if he remember
A kinder value of the people than
He hath hereto prized them at.
MENENIUS
That’s off, that’s off;
I would you rather had been silent. Please you
To hear Cominius speak?
BRUTUS
Most willingly;
But yet my caution was more pertinent
Than the rebuke you give it.
MENENIUS
He loves your people
But tie him not to be their bedfellow.
Worthy Cominius, speak. DUTCH: Zeer gaarne, doch mijn voorbehoud was passend,
Veel meer dan uw verwijt. MORE: Leave nothing out for length=Omit no detail
Defective of=Inability
Requital=Reward
Stretch it out=To pay enough reward
Motion=Influence
Body=Common people
Convented=Convened
Kinder value=More generous estimation
Off=Off the point
Compleat:
Defective=Gebreklyk, onvolkomen
Requital=Vergelding
Motion=Beweeging, aandryving
In a body=Gezamenlyk (en corps)
To convent=Voor ‘t recht roepen Topics: news, communication, status, caution