How we cite our quotes: Act.Line
Quote #10
Explain it how you will, I hope it brings you peace of mind. The bush-rat fled his rightful cause, reached the market and set up a lamentation. 'Please save me'—are these fitting words to hear from an ancestral mask? 'There's a wild beast at my heels' is not becoming language from a hunter. (5.88)
Elesin has tried to explain his failure to pull of his suicide, but Iyaloja isn't really having any of it, implying instead that he's just a coward.