QUOTES FROM THE BARD

PLAY: Coriolanus ACT/SCENE: 3.3 SPEAKER: Sicinius CONTEXT: CORIOLANUS
I know no further:
Let them pronounce the steep Tarpeian death,
Vagabond exile, raying, pent to linger
But with a grain a day, I would not buy
Their mercy at the price of one fair word;
Nor cheque my courage for what they can give,
To have’t with saying ‘Good morrow.’
SICINIUS
For that he has,
As much as in him lies, from time to time
Envied against the people, seeking means
To pluck away their power, as now at last
Given hostile strokes, and that not in the presence
Of dreaded justice, but on the ministers
That do distribute it; in the name o’ the people
And in the power of us the tribunes, we,
Even from this instant, banish him our city,
In peril of precipitation
From off the rock Tarpeian never more
To enter our Rome gates: i’ the people’s name,
I say it shall be so.
CITIZENS
It shall be so, it shall be so; let him away:
He’s banish’d, and it shall be so.
COMINIUS
Hear me, my masters, and my common friends,—
SICINIUS
He’s sentenced; no more hearing. DUTCH: Ik zou mij hun genade
Niet koopen tot den prijs van één goed woord,
Mijn hart niet dwingen om een gunst van hen,
Al waar’ zij voor een „Goeden morgen” veil. MORE: Steep death=Being thrown from the ‘steep Tarpeian rock’
Vagabond=Vagrant, wandering
Linger=Protracted suffering
Envied=Showed malice
Strokes=Blows
Precipitation=Being thrown headlong off the rock
Compleat:
Vagabond=Een landlooper, schooijer, zwerver
To linger=Leuteren, draalen
Envy=Nyd, afgunst
Stroke=Een slag, trek
To precipitate=(throw down) Plotseling van boven neer storten of werpen, haastig voortdryven, onbedachtelyk verhaasten Topics: mercy