QUOTES FROM THE BARD

PLAY: Coriolanus ACT/SCENE: 4.2 SPEAKER: Volumnia CONTEXT: VOLUMNIA
Ay, fool; is that a shame? Note but this fool.
Was not a man my father? Hadst thou foxship
To banish him that struck more blows for Rome
Than thou hast spoken words?
SICINIUS
O blessed heavens!
VOLUMNIA
More noble blows than ever thou wise words;
And for Rome’s good. I’ll tell thee what; yet go:
Nay, but thou shalt stay too: I would my son
Were in Arabia, and thy tribe before him,
His good sword in his hand.
SICINIUS
What then?
VIRGILIA
What then!
He’ld make an end of thy posterity. DUTCH: Toondet gij uw vosaard
Door hem te bannen, die meer slagen toebracht
Voor Rome, dan gij woorden spraakt? MORE: Foxship=Cunning
Compleat:
To play the fox=Schalk zyn als een vos
Tribe=(A kindred or company of people that dwells together in the same ward or liberty): Stam, gedeete van een gantsch volk; soort
Posterity=De nakomelingschap, afkomst, nakomelingen Topics: betrayal