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QUOTES FROM THE BARD
Out of these convertites there is much matter to be heard and learned
ACT/SCENE: 5.4
SPEAKER: Jaques
CONTEXT:
JAQUES
Sir, by your patience: if I heard you rightly,
The duke hath put on a religious life
And thrown into neglect the pompous court.
JAQUES DE BOYS
He hath.
JAQUES
To him will I. Out of these convertites
There is much matter to be heard and learned.
– You to your former honor I bequeath;
Your patience and your virtue well deserves it.
– You to a love that your true faith doth merit.
– You to your land, and love, and great allies.
– You to a long and well-deservèd bed.
– And you to wrangling, for thy loving voyage
Is but for two months victualled.— So to your pleasures.
I am for other than for dancing measures.
DUKE SENIOR
Stay, Jaques, stay.
JAQUES
To see no pastime I. What you would have
I’ll stay to know at your abandoned cave.
DUTCH:
Dan spoed ik mij tot hem; van die bekeerden
Is menig ding, dat nuttig is, te hooren.
MORE:
Pompous=Ceremonious
Convertites=Converts
Compleat:
Pompous=Prachtig, staatelyk
Convert=Een bekeerde
Topics: authority, life, order/society, marriage
If it be true that good wine needs no bush, ‘t is true that a good play needs no epilogue
PLAY: As You Like It
ACT/SCENE: 5.4
SPEAKER: Rosalind
CONTEXT:
ROSALIND
It is not the fashion to see the lady the epilogue, but
it is no more unhandsome than to see the lord the
prologue. If it be true that good wine needs no bush,
’tis true that a good play needs no epilogue. Yet to
good wine they do use good bushes, and good plays prove
the better by the help of good epilogues. What a case am
I in, then, that am neither a good epilogue nor cannot
insinuate with you in the behalf of a good play. I am
not furnished like a beggar; therefore to beg will not
become me. My way is to conjure you, and I’ll begin with
the women. I charge you, O women, for the love you bear
to men, to like as much of this play as please you. And
I charge you, O men, for the love you bear to women—as
I perceive by your simpering, none of you hates
them—that between you and the women the play may please.
If I were a woman, I would kiss as many of you as had
beards that pleased me, complexions that liked me, and
breaths that I defied not. And I am sure as many as have
good beards, or good faces, or sweet breaths will, for
my kind offer, when I make curtsy, bid me farewell.
DUTCH:
Is ‘t waar, dat goede wijn geen krans behoeft, even waar is het, dat een goed stuk geen epiloog behoeft maar waar goede wijn is, hangt men fraaie kransen uit, en goede stukken doen zich beter voor met behulp van goede epilogen.
MORE:
Proverb “Good wine needs no bush”
“A good bush” here refers to Ivy, which was hung out at vintners’ doors and in windows to advertise that the hostelry had a good wine.
Also from Sir John Harington’s Epigrams (1618)
“And with this prouerbe proued it labour lost:
Good Ale doth need no signe, good Wine no bush,
Good verse of praisers, need not passse a rush.”
Unhandsome=Unbecoming
Insinuate=To ingratiate one’s self (in a bad sense); to intermeddle
Case=Situation, plight, legal dilemma or actionable state
Furnished=Dressed
Liked=Pleased
Defied=Rejected
Compleat:
Unhandsome=Niet fraai
Insinuate=Inboezemen, inflyen, indringe, inschuyven
Case=Zaak, geval
Furnished=Verzorgd, voorzien, gestoffeerd
Topics: reputation, skill/talent, value, proverbs and idioms
Oh, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes
PLAY: As You Like It
ACT/SCENE: 5.2
SPEAKER: Orlando
CONTEXT:
ROSALIND
Oh, I know where you are. Nay, ’tis true. There was
never anything so sudden but the fight of two rams and
Caesar’s thrasonical brag of “I came, saw, and
overcame.” For your brother and my sister no sooner met
but they looked, no sooner looked but they loved, no
sooner loved but they sighed, no sooner sighed but they
asked one another the reason, no sooner knew the reason
but they sought the remedy; and in these degrees have
they made a pair of stairs to marriage, which they will
climb incontinent, or else be incontinent before
marriage. They are in the very wrath of love, and they
will together. Clubs cannot part them.
ORLANDO
They shall be married tomorrow, and I will bid the duke
to the nuptial. But Oh, how bitter a thing it is to
look into happiness through another man’s eyes. By so
much the more shall I tomorrow be at the height of
heart-heaviness, by how much I shall think my brother
happy in having what he wishes for.
ROSALIND
Why, then, tomorrow I cannot serve your turn for
Rosalind?
DUTCH:
Maar ach! hoe bitter is het, gelukzaligheid door eens anders oogen te zien!
MORE:
Thrasonical=Boasting (Thraso, bragging solider in ‘The Eunuch’)
Degrees=Stages
Incontinent=(1) Hastily (2) Unchaste
Heart-heaviness=Sadness
Compleat:
Thrasonical=Pochachtig, snorkachtig
Degree=Een graad, trap
Incontinent=Ontuchtig
Topics: life, satisfaction, emotion and mood, envy
I know you are a gentleman of good conceit
PLAY: As You Like It
ACT/SCENE: 5.2
SPEAKER: Rosalind
CONTEXT:
ORLANDO
I can live no longer by thinking.
ROSALIND
I will weary you then no longer with idle talking. Know
of me then—for now I speak to some purpose—that I know
you are a gentleman of good conceit. I speak not this
that you should bear a good opinion of my knowledge,
insomuch I say I know you are. Neither do I labour for a
greater esteem than may in some little measure draw a
belief from you to do yourself good, and not to grace
me. Believe then, if you please, that I can do strange
things. I have, since I was three year old, conversed
with a magician, most profound in his art and yet not
damnable. If you do love Rosalind so near the heart as
your gesture cries it out, when your brother marries
Aliena shall you marry her. I know into what straits of
fortune she is driven, and it is not impossible to me,
if it appear not inconvenient to you, to set her before
your eyes tomorrow, human as she is, and without any
danger.
ORLANDO
Speak’st thou in sober meanings?
DUTCH:
Dan wil ik u niet langer met ijdele praatjens vermoeien. Verneem dus van mij, — want nu spreek ik niet zonder bedoeling, — dat ik u ken als een edelman van goed begrip.
MORE:
Conceit=Extraction, birth
That=So that
Conversed=Associated
Grace me=Improve my own reputation
Damnable=Wicked
Gesture=Behaviour
Straits of fortune=Situation
In sober meanings=Serious
Compleat:
Conversed=Verkeerd, omgegaan
To grace=Vercieren, bevallig maaken
Damnable=Verfoeijelyk, verdoemelyk
Gesture=Gebaar, gelaat, aanstelling
Sober= (temperate, modest, wise, staid, grave) Sober, maatig, zedig, wys, deftig
Topics: status, reputation, integrity
Youth, you have done me much ungentleness to show the letter that I writ to you
PLAY: As You Like It
ACT/SCENE: 5.2
SPEAKER: Phoebe
CONTEXT:
ROSALIND
By my life I do, which I tender dearly, though I say I
am a magician. Therefore put you in your best array, bid
your friends; for if you will be married tomorrow, you
shall, and to Rosalind, if you will.
Look, here comes a lover of mine and a lover of hers.
PHOEBE
Youth, you have done me much ungentleness
To show the letter that I writ to you.
ROSALIND
I care not if I have. It is my study
To seem despiteful and ungentle to you.
You are there followed by a faithful shepherd.
Look upon him, love him; he worships you.
PHOEBE
Good shepherd, tell this youth what ’tis to love.
SILVIUS
It is to be all made of sighs and tears,
And so am I for Phoebe.
DUTCH:
Jonkman, dat was niet hupsch van u gedaan,
Dien brief, dien ik u schreef, te laten zien.
MORE:
Best array=Finest clothes
Bid=Invite
Ungentleness=Unkindness, discourtesy
Study=Purposeful endeavour
Despiteful=Contemptuous
Ungentle=Rude
Compleat:
Bidding=Gebieding, noodiging
To bid=Gebieden, beveelen, belasten, heeten, noodigen, bieden
Ungentle= (untractable) Ontembaar, onhandelbaar; (severe, hard) Gestreng, hard
To study (endeavour)=Trachten, poogen
Despiteful=Spytig, boosaardig
Topics: promise, marriage, appearance, communication