 You common cry of curs! whose breath I hate As reek o' the rotten fens, whose loves I prize As the dead carcasses of unburied men That do corrupt my air, I banish you; And here remain with your uncertainty! Let every feeble rumour shake your hearts! Your...  King Henry VIII. Coriolanus - Page 96by William Shakespeare - 1788Full view - About this book
 | Jerry Blunt - Performing Arts - 1990 - 232 pages
...brought to task for it and threatened with banishment, the strong man speaks strongly back. Coriolanus: You common cry of curs! whose breath I hate As reek...the dead carcasses of unburied men That do corrupt the air, I banish you; And here remain with your uncertainty! Let every feeble rumour shake your hearts!... | |
 | Kenneth John Emerson Graham - History - 1994 - 260 pages
...Coriolanus and Timon of Athens 183 You common cry of curs, whose breath I hate As reek o'th'rotten fens, whose loves I prize As the dead carcasses of...unburied men That do corrupt my air, I banish you! (3.3.121-24) Like Alcibiades's similar remark when he is banished — Banish me? Banish your dotage,... | |
 | Naomi Conn Liebler - Drama - 1995 - 290 pages
...rot. Coriolanus responds to his banishment: You common cry of curs! whose breath I hate As reek o' th' rotten fens, whose loves I prize As the dead carcasses...banish you! And here remain with your uncertainty! (III.iii.120-4) The language deploys the imagery of St George's dragon in the Caxton translation, whose... | |
 | Charles R. Bambach - History - 1995 - 316 pages
...Coriolanus and Timon of Athens 183 You common cry of curs, whose breath I hate As reek o'th'rotten fens, whose loves I prize As the dead carcasses of...unburied men That do corrupt my air, I banish you! (3.3.121-24) Like Alcibiades's similar remark when he is banished — Banish me? Banish your dotage,... | |
 | Stanley Wells - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 438 pages
...hatred of the populace, the speech beginning You common cry of curs, whose breath I hate As reek o'th' rotten fens, whose loves I prize As the dead carcasses...unburied men That do corrupt my air: I banish you. (3.3.124-7) Coriolanus is no longer the enemy within the state, but has become identified with those... | |
 | Richard G. Stevens - History - 1997 - 410 pages
...those who, in the name of the Plebeians, had just pronounced a sentence of banishment on him and say, "You common cry of curs, whose breath I hate as reek o' the rotten fens, whose lives I prize as the dead carcasses of unburied men that do corrupt my air, / banish you\" Yet they... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1999 - 196 pages
...be so! it shall be so! CORIOLANUS 121 You common cry of curs, whose breath I hate 122 As reek o' th' rotten fens, whose loves I prize As the dead carcasses...banish you! And here remain with your uncertainty. Let every feeble rumor shake your hearts! Your enemies, with nodding of their plumes, Fan you into... | |
 | Stephen Orgel, Sean Keilen - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 284 pages
...banish him, Martius curses them as 'You common cry of curs! whose breath I hate,/As reek a'th'rotten fens, whose loves I prize/ As the dead carcasses of unburied men/ That do corrupt my air' (Ill.iii. 120-3). It would appear to be such commoners thronging the theatres that made the city fathers... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2001 - 528 pages
...glorious achievement of scientific genius upon record, than Kepler's guesses, prophecies, and ulti* " You common cry of .curs !. whose breath I hate As...banish you ; And here remain with your uncertainty !" Act iii. sc. 3. f Galileo Galilei was born at Pisa, on the 15th of February, 1564. John Kepler was... | |
 | Kenneth Gross - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2001 - 304 pages
...the city an image of its present desolation: You common cry of curs! whose breath I hate As reek o'th 'rotten fens, whose loves I prize As the dead carcasses...banish you! And here remain with your uncertainty! Let every feeble rumour shake your hearts! Your enemies, with nodding of their plumes, Fan you into... | |
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