QUOTES FROM THE BARD

PLAY: Coriolanus ACT/SCENE: 3.1 SPEAKER: Coriolanus CONTEXT: COMINIUS
The people are abused; set on. This paltering
Becomes not Rome, nor has Coriolanus
Deserved this so dishonour’d rub, laid falsely
I’ the plain way of his merit.
CORIOLANUS
Tell me of corn!
This was my speech, and I will speak’t again—
MENENIUS
Not now, not now.
FIRST SENATOR
Not in this heat, sir, now.
CORIOLANUS
Now, as I live, I will. My nobler friends,
I crave their pardons:
For the mutable, rank-scented many, let them
Regard me as I do not flatter, and
Therein behold themselves: I say again,
In soothing them, we nourish ‘gainst our senate
The cockle of rebellion, insolence, sedition,
Which we ourselves have plough’d for, sow’d,
and scatter’d,
By mingling them with us, the honour’d number,
Who lack not virtue, no, nor power, but that
Which they have given to beggars. DUTCH: Ja nu, zoo waar ik leef. — Mijn eed’le vrienden,
‘k Vraag u vergiff’nis; — laat die wisselzieke,
Die vunze menigte in ‘t gelaat mij zien,
Mij, die geen vleitaal spreek, maar hun daardoor
Een spiegel voorhoud! MORE: Abused=Deceived
Set on=Incited
Paltering=Deceit
Rub=Obstacle
Cockle=Seed
Compleat:
To abuse=Misbruiken, mishandelen, kwaalyk bejegenen, beledigen, verongelyken, schelden
To set on=Aandryven, ophitsen
To palter=Weifelen, leuteren, haperen, achteruit kruipen, aerzelen, bedektelyk handelen
The rub=Beletsel, binderpaal Topics: abuse, deceit, merit, foul play