QUOTES FROM THE BARD

PLAY: Coriolanus ACT/SCENE: 3.3 SPEAKER: Coriolanus CONTEXT: AEDILE
List to your tribunes. Audience: peace, I say!
CORIOLANUS
First, hear me speak.
BOTH TRIBUNES
Well, say. Peace, ho!
CORIOLANUS
Shall I be charged no further than this present?
Must all determine here?
SICINIUS
I do demand,
If you submit you to the people’s voices,
Allow their officers and are content
To suffer lawful censure for such faults
As shall be proved upon you?
CORIOLANUS
I am content.
MENENIUS
Lo, citizens, he says he is content:
The warlike service he has done, consider; think
Upon the wounds his body bears, which show
Like graves i’ the holy churchyard.
CORIOLANUS
Scratches with briers,
Scars to move laughter only. DUTCH: Word ik niet verder aangeklaagd dan thans?
Wordt alles hier beslist? MORE: List=Listen, pay attention to
Briers=Thorns
Compleat:
Brier or briar=Doornstruik Topics: persuasion, communication, judgment