...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!...

...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,...

...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...

...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,...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...