ENGL 348 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Plebs, Volumnia, Ope
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Line 1: "all the contagion of the south light on you,/ you shames of rome! You herd of-- boils and plagues/ plaster you o"er, that you may be abhorred/ farther than seen, and one infect another/ against the wind a mile! You souls of geese/ that bear the shapes of men, how have you run/ from slaves that apes would beat! Backs red, and faces pale/ with flight and agued fear! Line 12: "if you"ll stand fast, we"ll beat them to their wives,/ as they us to our trenches. If she is weak, then she is a failure: shakespeare makes her egocentric so it is easy to look at her as aberration (who is also a norm) Line 1: "i"ll fight with none but thee, for i do hate thee/ worse than a promise breaker" "we hate alike. / not afric owns a serpent i abhor/ more than thy fame and envy.
