 | Irving Ribner - Art - 2005 - 232 pages
...personal renown: Cut me to pieces, Volsces; men and lads, Stain all your edges on me. Boy! false hound! If you have writ your annals true, 'tis there, That, like an eagle in a dove-cote, I Flutter'd your Volscians in Corioli: Alone I did it. Boy! (V.vi.i 12-17) The 'alone' is emphasized in his death, and... | |
 | G. B. Harrison - English drama (Tragedy) - 2005 - 288 pages
...former enemies: Cut me to pieces Volsces men and lads, Stain all your edges on me. Boy, false hound: If you have writ your Annals true, 'tis there, That like an eagle in a dove-cote, I Fluttcr'd your Volscians in Corioli: Alone I did it, Boy. It is the cue for the conspirators, who close... | |
 | Jan H. Blits - Drama - 2006 - 260 pages
...tells of having harmed not only Aufidius but "your Volscians." "'Boy!' False hound!" he cries out; If you have writ your annals true, 'tis there, That like an eagle in a dove-cote, I Flutter'd your Volscians in Corioles. (5.6.112-15) With an ill-timed boast of the harm he has caused those whom he... | |
 | William Farina - Literary Criticism - 2014 - 280 pages
...in boasting" (II.i.20). Coriolanus confirms this accusation in the climactic finale by proclaiming, "If you have writ your annals true, 'tis there that, like an eagle in a dove-cote, I [flutter'd] your Volscians in Coriloes. Alone I did it. 'Boy'!" (Vv113— 115). Among de Vere's more memorable claims... | |
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If you have writ your annals true, 'tis there, That, like an eagle in a dove-cote, I Flutter'd your Volscians in Corioli : Alone I did it. Boy ! Auf. 
