QUOTES FROM THE BARD

PLAY: Coriolanus ACT/SCENE: 3.1 SPEAKER: Coriolanus CONTEXT: FIRST SENATOR
Tribunes, give way; he shall to the market-place.
BRUTUS
The people are incensed against him.
SICINIUS
Stop,
Or all will fall in broil.
CORIOLANUS
Are these your herd?
Must these have voices, that can yield them now
And straight disclaim their tongues? What are your offices?
You being their mouths, why rule you not their teeth?
Have you not set them on?
MENENIUS
Be calm, be calm.
CORIOLANUS
It is a purposed thing, and grows by plot,
To curb the will of the nobility:
Suffer’t, and live with such as cannot rule
Nor ever will be ruled.
BRUTUS
Call’t not a plot:
The people cry you mock’d them, and of late,
When corn was given them gratis, you repined;
Scandal’d the suppliants for the people, call’d them
Time-pleasers, flatterers, foes to nobleness. DUTCH: Staat,
Of alles raakt in roer. MORE: Broil=Turmoil
Voices=Votes
Straight=Immediately
Disclaim=Disavow
Offices=Duties
Purposed=Planned
Repined=Complained
Scandalled=Slandered
Time-pleasers=Opportunists
Compleat:
Broil=Oproer, beroerte, gewoel
Voice=Stem, recht van stemmen
Straightway=Eenswegs, terstond, opstaandevoet
To disclaim=Otkennen, verzaaken, afstaan
Office=Een ampt, dienst
To purpose=Voorneemen, voorhebben
To repine=Moeijelyk zyn, misnoegd weezen, berouw hebben; benyden
To scandal=Lasteren, onteeren Topics: conspiracy, poverty and wealth