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Let’s lack no discipline, make no delay, for, lords, tomorrow is a busy day

PLAY: Richard III
ACT/SCENE: 5.3
SPEAKER: King Richard III
CONTEXT:
KING RICHARD
Up with my tent!—Here will I lie tonight.
But where tomorrow? Well, all’s one for that.
Who hath descried the number of the traitors?
NORFOLK
Six or seven thousand is their utmost power.
KING RICHARD
Why, our battalia trebles that account.
Besides, the king’s name is a tower of strength
Which they upon the adverse party want.
Up with the tent!—Come, noble gentlemen,
Let us survey the vantage of the ground.
Call for some men of sound direction.
Let’s lack no discipline, make no delay,
For, lords, tomorrow is a busy day.

DUTCH:
Een deeg’lijk plan beraamd en ras gehandeld,
Want morgen, heeren, wordt een heete dag.

MORE:
Descried=Discovered
Battalia=Army
Account=Number
Want=Lack
Vantage of the ground=Vantage point
Sound direction=Used to taking orders
Compleat:
Vantage=Toegift, toemaat, overmaat, overwigt
To descry=Ontdekken, bespeuren
Want=Gebrek, nood
Sound (judicious)=Verstandig, schrander, gegrond

Topics: leadership, conflict, advantage/benefit, life

Categories: advantage/benefit, leadership, life, Richard III|

Call for some men of sound direction

DUTCH:
Roept een’ge welervaren krijgers saam

MORE:
Descried=Discovered
Battalia=Army
Account=Number
Want=Lack
Vantage of the ground=Vantage point
Sound direction=Used to taking orders
Compleat:
Vantage=Toegift, toemaat, overmaat, overwigt
To descry=Ontdekken, bespeuren
Want=Gebrek, nood
Sound (judicious)=Verstandig, schrander, gegrond

Topics: leadership, conflict, advantage/benefit, life

Categories: advantage/benefit, leadership, life, Richard III|

Knavery’s plain face is never seen till used

PLAY: Othello
ACT/SCENE: 2.1
SPEAKER: Iago
CONTEXT:
IAGO
That Cassio loves her, I do well believe ’t.
That she loves him, ’tis apt and of great credit.
The Moor, howbeit that I endure him not,
Is of a constant, loving, noble nature,
And I dare think he’ll prove to Desdemona
A most dear husband. Now, I do love her too,
Not out of absolute lust—though peradventure
I stand accountant for as great a sin—
But partly led to diet my revenge,
For that I do suspect the lusty Moor
Hath leaped into my seat. The thought whereof
Doth, like a poisonous mineral, gnaw my inwards,
And nothing can or shall content my soul
Till I am evened with him, wife for wife.
Or, failing so, yet that I put the Moor
At least into a jealousy so strong
That judgment cannot cure. Which thing to do,
If this poor trash of Venice, whom I trace
For his quick hunting, stand the putting on,
I’ll have our Michael Cassio on the hip,
Abuse him to the Moor in the right garb
(For I fear Cassio with my night-cape too)
Make the Moor thank me, love me, and reward me
For making him egregiously an ass
And practicing upon his peace and quiet
Even to madness. ‘Tis here, but yet confused.
Knavery’s plain face is never seen till used.

DUTCH:
Toont schurkerij haar kenn’lijk, waar gelaat.

MORE:
Proverb: To have one on the hip
On the hip=Have the advantage over; have at one’s mercy (See MoV, 1.3 “If I can catch him once upon the hip”)

Apt=Likely
Of great credit=Very believable
Accountant=Accountable
Diet=Feed
Jealousy=Suspicion
Trace=Put in harnass (use for my purposes)
Abuse=Slander
Garb=Manner
Egregiously=In an enormous, shameful manner
Plain=Open, clear, easily understood, evident
Compleat:
Apt=Bequaam, gevoeglyk, gereed
Egregiously=Befaamd, berucht, aankerkelyk (in an ill sense)
An egregious knave=Een beruchte boef
Credit=Geloof, achting, aanzien, goede naam
To abuse=Misbruiken, mishandelen, kwaalyk bejegenen, beledigen, verongelyken, schelden
Diet=Spys, kost, het eeten
Jealousy (Jealoesie)(or suspicion)=Agterdogtig
Full of jealousies=Zeer agterdenkend
To abuse=Misbruiken, mishandelen, kwaalyk bejegenen, beledigen, verongelyken, schelden
Garb=Gewaad, dragt
Egregiously=Treffelyk
Plain=Vlak, effen, klaar, duydelyk, slecht, eenvoudig, oprecht

Topics: deceit, appearance, proverbs and idioms, advantage/benefit

Categories: advantage/benefit, deceit, Othello, proverbs and idioms|

Most mischievous foul sin in chiding sin, for thou thyself hast been a libertine

PLAY: As You Like It
ACT/SCENE: 2.7
SPEAKER: Duke Senior
CONTEXT:
DUKE SENIOR
Fie on thee! I can tell what thou wouldst do.
JAQUES
What, for a counter, would I do but good?
DUKE SENIOR
Most mischievous foul sin in chiding sin,
For thou thyself hast been a libertine,
As sensual as the brutish sting itself,
And all th’ embossèd sores and headed evils
That thou with license of free foot hast caught
Wouldst thou disgorge into the general world.
JAQUES
Why, who cries out on pride
That can therein tax any private party?
Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea
Till that the weary very means do ebb?
What woman in the city do I name,
When that I say the city-woman bears
The cost of princes on unworthy shoulders?
Who can come in and say that I mean her,
When such a one as she such is her neighbour?
Or what is he of basest function
That says his bravery is not of my cost,
Thinking that I mean him, but therein suits
His folly to the mettle of my speech?
There then. How then, what then? Let me see wherein
My tongue hath wronged him. If it do him right,
Then he hath wronged himself. If he be free,
Why then my taxing like a wild goose flies
Unclaimed of any man. But who comes here?

DUTCH:
Recht booze zonde, als gij op zonde raast;
Want gij zijt zelf een woesteling geweest,
Een slaaf, niet min dan ‘t vee, der zinn’lijkheid;

MORE:
Counter=Coin or counter having no value
Sting=Carnal appetite
Embossed=Swollen
Evils=Boils
Licence=Licentiousness (and permission)
Free foot=Freedom of movement
Tax=Accuse
Means=Source
City-woman=Extravagantly dressed city wife
Mettle=Spirit
Do him=Describe him
Right=Correctly
Free=Innocent
Compleat:
Sting=Prikkel, steekel
Licence=Verlof, oorlof, vergunning, toelaating, vrygeeving, goedkeuring; vryheyd
To tax=Beschuldigen
Full of mettle=Vol vuurs, moedig
Right=Recht, behoorlyk

Topics: advantage/benefit, pride, language, insult

Categories: advantage/benefit, As You Like It, insult, language|

Crack the lawyer’s voice, that he may never more false title plead, nor sound his quillets shrilly

PLAY: Timon of Athens
ACT/SCENE: 4.3
SPEAKER: Timon
CONTEXT:
TIMON
Consumptions sow
In hollow bones of man; strike their sharp shins,
And mar men’s spurring. Crack the lawyer’s voice,
That he may never more false title plead,
Nor sound his quillets shrilly: hoar the flamen,
That scolds against the quality of flesh,
And not believes himself: down with the nose,
Down with it flat; take the bridge quite away
Of him that, his particular to foresee,
Smells from the general weal: make curled-pate
ruffians bald;
And let the unscarred braggarts of the war
Derive some pain from you: plague all;
That your activity may defeat and quell
The source of all erection. There’s more gold:
Do you damn others, and let this damn you,
And ditches grave you all!

DUTCH:
Zaait in der mannen holle beend’ren tering!
Maakt hun de schrale schenkels lam, en breek
Des ruiters kracht, de stem des pleitbezorgers,
Dat die geen onrecht ooit meer steun’, geen schrille
Spitsvondigheên meer krijsche.

MORE:
Consumptions=Infections
Hollow bones=Effect of syphilis
Crack the voice=Effect of syphilis
Quillet=Tricks in argument, distinctions, subtleties, ambiguities
Hoar=Whiten, effect of syphilis
Flamen=Cleric
Braggarts=Boastful
Grave=Entomb
Compleat:
Consumption=Verteering, verquisting, vertier
Hollow=Hol, uitgehold
Quillet=(The querks and quillets of the law): De kneepen en draaijen der Rechtsgeleerden
Hoariness=Beryptheid, grysheid, beschimmeldheid
Braggart, braggard or Braggadochio=Een pocher, Blaaskaak

Topics: insult, lawyers, defence, advantage/benefit

Categories: advantage/benefit, defence, insult, Timon of Athens|

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