QUOTES FROM THE BARD

PLAY: Coriolanus ACT/SCENE: 4.5 SPEAKER: Third Servingman CONTEXT: THIRD SERVINGMAN
Why, he is so made on here within, as if he were son
and heir to Mars; set at upper end o’ the table; no
question asked him by any of the senators, but they
stand bald before him: our general himself makes a
mistress of him: sanctifies himself with’s hand and
turns up the white o’ the eye to his discourse. But
the bottom of the news is that our general is cut i’
the middle and but one half of what he was
yesterday; for the other has half, by the entreaty
and grant of the whole table. He’ll go, he says,
and sowl the porter of Rome gates by the ears: he
will mow all down before him, and leave his passage
polled.
SECOND SERVINGMAN
And he’s as like to do’t as any man I can imagine.
THIRD SERVINGMAN
Do’t! he will do’t; for, look you, sir, he has as
many friends as enemies; which friends, sir, as it
were, durst not, look you, sir, show themselves, as
we term it, his friends whilst he’s in directitude.
FIRST SERVINGMAN
Directitude! what’s that?
THIRD SERVINGMAN
But when they shall see, sir, his crest up again,
and the man in blood, they will out of their
burrows, like conies after rain, and revel all with him. DUTCH: Maar als ze, man, zijn helmbos weer rechtop zien, en
den man in volle kracht, dan komen ze wel weer uit
haar holen, evenals konijnen na regen, en allen dansen
met hem mede. MORE: Sowl=Grab
Polled=Plundered
Man in blood=Thirsting for battle
Conies=Rabbits
Compleat:
Coney=Konijn
Crestfallen=Die de kuif laat hangen, die de moed opgeeft, neerslagtig
Polled=Geschooren, afgekneveld Topics: flattery, respect, authority