wiki-illiam #108: q8

[dubdobdee]

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1: Of what fishes was who declared the Triton?
2: Who likened the haberdasher's offering to a bivalve?
3: Who was likened to which dried clupeid without his roe?
4: Who reminded Goodfellow of hearing a mermaid on whose back?
5: Who suggested that land might be purchased as cheap as what malodorous fish?
6: Who intoned about whose jaws, mixed with a poisonous root and a lupine tooth?
7: Who, in alluding to age, refers to what creature progressing in reverse?
8: Who chose to play the fool and alluded to a small bait-fish?
9: Whose face had pimples, described as what gastropods?
10: Who found that what soused fish caused flatulence?

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[katstevens.livejournal.com]

And 1. is from Coriolanus - titular dude is a soldier-turned-politician, and is having a massive beef with Brutus and Sicinius (who, to be fair, have been inciting a riot against him) and he accidentally-on-purpose calls the rioting proletariat 'rank-scented' and other PR-unfriendly things (bad luck Coriolanus). His mates try and say he doesn't mean it but C won't put down his shovel now he's started digging, and B&S egg him on:

BRUTUS: You speak o' the people,
As if you were a god to punish, not
A man of their infirmity.

SICINIUS: 'Twere well
We let the people know't.

MENENIUS: What, what? his choler?

CORIOLANUS: Choler!
Were I as patient as the midnight sleep,
By Jove, 'twould be my mind!

SICINIUS: It is a mind
That shall remain a poison where it is,
Not poison any further.

CORIOLANUS: Shall remain!
Hear you this Triton of the minnows? mark you
His absolute 'shall'?

COMINIUS: 'Twas from the canon. (<--- ROCKISM)