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William Shakespeare. (1564–1616) (continued)

1174

Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.

Coriolanus. Act ii. Sc. 1.

1175

A cup of hot wine with not a drop of allaying Tiber in ’t. 1

Coriolanus. Act ii. Sc. 1.

1176

Many-headed multitude. 2

Coriolanus. Act ii. Sc. 3.

1177

I thank you for your voices: thank you:
Your most sweet voices.

Coriolanus. Act ii. Sc. 3.

1178

Hear you this Triton of the minnows? Mark you
His absolute “shall”?

Coriolanus. Act iii. Sc. 1.

1179

Enough, with over-measure.

Coriolanus. Act iii. Sc. 1.

1180

His nature is too noble for the world:
He would not flatter Neptune for his trident,
Or Jove for ’s power to thunder.

Coriolanus. Act iii. Sc. 1.

1181

That it shall hold companionship in peace
With honour, as in war.

Coriolanus. Act iii. Sc. 2.

1182

Serv. Where dwellest thou?
Cor. Under the canopy.

Coriolanus. Act iv. Sc. 5.

1183

A name unmusical to the Volscians’ ears,
And harsh in sound to thine.

Coriolanus. Act iv. Sc. 5.

1184

Chaste as the icicle
That ’s curdied by the frost from purest snow
And hangs on Dian’s temple.

Coriolanus. Act v. Sc. 3.

1185

If you have writ your annals true, ’t is there
That, like an eagle in a dove-cote, I
Flutter’d your Volscians in Corioli:
Alone I did it. Boy!

Coriolanus. Act v. Sc. 6. 3

1186

Sweet mercy is nobility’s true badge.

Titus Andronicus. Act i. Sc. 2.

Note 1.
When flowing cups pass swiftly round
With no allaying Thames.
Richard Lovelace: To Althea from Prison, ii. [back]

Note 2.
See Sidney, Quotation 6. [back]

Note 3.
Act v. sc. 5 in Singer and Knight. [back]