Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 17 (nat, leaguer, assyrian, mowche, bashas, andalle…). Matches are highlighted.
a Roman, and my Services are as you are, against they. Know you me yet. The same sir. There hath been in Room strange Insurrecti ons: The people, against the Senators, Patricians, and Nobles. The main blaze of it is passed, but a small thing would make it flame again. For the Nobles receive so to heart, the Banishment of that
Full speech
I know you well sir, and you know me: your name I think is Adrian. I am a Roman, and my Services are as you are, against they. Know you me yet. The same sir. There hath been in Room strange Insurrecti ons: The people, against the Senators, Patricians, and Nobles. The main blaze of it is passed, but a small thing would make it flame again. For the Nobles receive so to heart, the Banishment of that worthy Coriolanus, that they are in a ripe aptness, to take all power from the peo ple, and to pluck from them their Tribunes for ever. This lies glowing I can tell you, and is almost mature for the violent breaking out. Banished sir. The day serves well for them now. I have herd it said, the fittest time to corrupt a men Wife, is when she's fallen out with her Husband. Your Noble Tullus Auffidius well appear well in these Wars, his great Opposer Coriolanus being now in no request of his con trey. I shall between this and Supper, tell you most strange things from Room: all tending to the good of their Adversaries. Have you and Army ready say you? I am joyful to hear of their readiness, and am the man I think, that shall set them in present Actium. So sir, heartily well met, and most glad of your Company. Well, let us go together.
Plot summary
Plot — Coriolanus
The. citizens of Rome riot for corn. They insist that the patricians are hoarding the commodity, but Menenius Agrippa tells them a fable suggesting that the Senate has made an equitable distribution of what there is. The Senate grants the people tribunes to represent their interests, to the disgust of the patrician soldier Martius. ‘The Volsces put troops in-the field in an attempt to capture Roman territory. The Romans split their powers: the general Cominius takes on the attacking army under the Volscian commander Aufidius, while Martius and Titus Lartius attack the Volscian town of Corioles. Martius ventures alone into the town and is trapped when the gates close behind him. When he re-emerges, bleeding from the fight, he invigorates the troops and Corioles is conquered. He goes to relieve Cominius, while Titus Lartius finalizes the terms of the Roman occupation. Martius confronts Aufidius in single combat. They are long-time rivals who have sworn to fight to the death, but they are balked when Aufidius’ troops intervene to rescue him. Meanwhile, Aufidius realizes that he will never beat Martius in a fair fight: it will have to be by stealth. Martius, now surnamed Coriolanus, returns triumph to Rome, and is put forward for the consulship. By custom, he must humbly ask the consent of the people and show them his war-wounds. He is reluctant, partly through contempt for the plebeians and partly out of a concern that his valour might be misinterpreted as political ambition. Even so, he. undertakes the obligation and receives the people’s voices, but does not actually show the wounds. The Tribunes persuade the people to withdraw their votes, since it would not be in their best interests to have Coriolanus as head of state. When the Tribunes intervene to block his promotion, Coriolanus loses his temper and speaks to them in terms which exacerbate the situation. Cominius undertakes to get him to apologise, but Coriolanus — persuaded to comply only at the intervention of his mother, Volumnia — still cannot keep his temper, and the Tribunes banish him from Rome. Coriolanus goes to Aufidius’ house in Antium and is received. The Volsces are mobilizing a new army for a fresh attack on the Romans, and Aufidius splits his command with Coriolanus, who marches on Rome. When his victory seems certain, first Cominius and then Menenius entreat his clemency, but are refused. An embassy from Volumnia, his wife, and young son proves more effective, however: he decides to…