Passing Strange

[Jeunemaitre]

To cut the throats of your sons and consorts

It's been quite a few years since I ended my courses in French, so I may certainly be wrong on this one, but I'm not sure that consorts would be the best translation of compagnes. Griselda's comment about a close male friend might be on the right track, but I'm thinking something along the lines of "comrade" in a military sense (comrades at/in arms), rather than a socialist sense.

On a second note, the inversion in the following line indicates a question, rather than a statement:

Entendez-vous dans les campagnes

So, rather than "Listen to the sound in the fields" I think it reads more akin to "Can you hear in/across the fields"

Lastly, and least certainly, I'm not sure of the tense of Ils viennent. I can't remember the conjugation of the verb in the xxxxx (can't remember the name, but it is used for current/ongoing or habitual actions) future and future conditional (I think that's the name of the tense I'm thinking of) tenses, but there may not be a clear spelling difference between "are coming" (xxx as current/ongoing), "will be coming" (future), and "would come" (future conditional). The future conditional seems like it also indicates intent, so it's the difference between:

"You hear those guys?  They're coming to cut your throats.  You're not gonna take that are you?"

and

"You hear those guys?  They want to come cut your throats.  You're not gonna take that are you?")