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QUOTES FROM THE BARD
Ah keeper, keeper, I have done those things, that now give evidence against my soul
ACT/SCENE: 1.4
SPEAKER: Clarence
CONTEXT:
CLARENCE
Ah keeper, keeper, I have done those things,
That now give evidence against my soul,
For Edward’s sake, and see how he requites me.—
O God, if my deep prayers cannot appease thee,
But thou wilt be avenged on my misdeeds,
Yet execute thy wrath in me alone!
O, spare my guiltless wife and my poor children!—
Keeper, I prithee sit by me awhile.
My soul is heavy, and I fain would sleep.
DUTCH:
O stokbewaarder! O, ik deed die dingen,
Die tegen mijne ziel alsnu getuigen,
Om Edwards wil; en zie, hoe hij ‘t mij loont!
MORE:
Keeper=Jailer
Requite=Repay
Heavy=Sad
Fain=Am eager to
Compleat:
Keeper=Een bewaarder
Requite=Vergelden
Heavy=Zwaar, zwaarmoedig, bedrukt, bedroefd
Fain=Gaern
Topics: conscience, offence, guilt, regret
They that set you on to do this deed will hate you for the deed
PLAY: Richard III
ACT/SCENE: 1.4
SPEAKER: Clarence
CONTEXT:
FIRST MURDERER
Make peace with God, for you must die, my lord.
CLARENCE
Have you that holy feeling in your souls
To counsel me to make my peace with God,
And art you yet to your own souls so blind
That thou will war with God by murd’ring me?
O sirs, consider: they that set you on
To do this deed will hate you for the deed.
SECOND MURDERER
What shall we do?
CLARENCE
Relent, and save your souls.
Which of you—if you were a prince’s son
Being pent from liberty, as I am now—
If two such murderers as yourselves came to you,
Would not entreat for life? Ay, you would beg,
Were you in my distress.
DUTCH:
Bedenkt het wel: die u heeft aangezet
De daad te doen, zal om de daad u haten.
MORE:
Set you on=Urged
Pent=Restrained
Entreat=Beg
Compleat:
To set on=Aandryven, ophitsen
Pent up=Beslooten, opgeslooten
To entreat=Bidden, ernstig verzoeken
Topics: conscience, guilt, consequence, manipulation
The worm of conscience still begnaw thy soul
PLAY: Richard III
ACT/SCENE: 1.3
SPEAKER: Queen Margaret
CONTEXT:
QUEEN MARGARET
And leave out thee? Stay, dog, for thou shalt hear me.
If heaven have any grievous plague in store
Exceeding those that I can wish upon thee,
O, let them keep it till thy sins be ripe
And then hurl down their indignation
On thee, the troubler of the poor world’s peace.
The worm of conscience still begnaw thy soul.
Thy friends suspect for traitors while thou liv’st,
And take deep traitors for thy dearest friends.
No sleep close up that deadly eye of thine,
Unless it be while some tormenting dream
Affrights thee with a hell of ugly devils.
Thou elvish-marked, abortive, rooting hog,
Thou was sealed in thy nativity
The slave of nature and the son of hell,
Thou slander of they heavy mother’s womb,
Thou loathed issue of they father’s loins,
Thou rag of honour, thou detested—
DUTCH:
Gewetensangst knaag’ als een worm uw ziel!
Verdenk uw vrienden immer van verraad,
Kies aartsverraders tot uw boezemvrienden!
MORE:
Ripe=Concluded, perpetrated
Deadly=Fatal (as in basilisk)
Sealed=Stamped, confirmed
Still=Constantly
Hog=Richards emblem was a boar
Heavy=Sad
Compleat:
Sealed=Gezegeld
Still=Steeds, gestadig, altyd
Hog=Zwyn
Topics: conscience, suspicion
The worm of conscience still begnaw thy soul
PLAY: Richard III
ACT/SCENE: 1.3
SPEAKER: Queen Margaret
CONTEXT:
QUEEN MARGARET
And leave out thee? Stay, dog, for thou shalt hear me.
If heaven have any grievous plague in store
Exceeding those that I can wish upon thee,
O, let them keep it till thy sins be ripe
And then hurl down their indignation
On thee, the troubler of the poor world’s peace.
The worm of conscience still begnaw thy soul.
Thy friends suspect for traitors while thou liv’st,
And take deep traitors for thy dearest friends.
No sleep close up that deadly eye of thine,
Unless it be while some tormenting dream
Affrights thee with a hell of ugly devils.
Thou elvish-marked, abortive, rooting hog,
Thou was sealed in thy nativity
The slave of nature and the son of hell,
Thou slander of they heavy mother’s womb,
Thou loathed issue of they father’s loins,
Thou rag of honour, thou detested—
DUTCH:
Gewetensangst knaag’ als een worm uw ziel!
Verdenk uw vrienden immer van verraad,
Kies aartsverraders tot uw boezemvrienden!
MORE:
Ripe=Concluded, perpetrated
Deadly=Fatal (as in basilisk)
Sealed=Stamped, confirmed
Still=Constantly
Hog=Richards emblem was a boar
Heavy=Sad
Compleat:
Sealed=Gezegeld
Still=Steeds, gestadig, altyd
Hog=Zwyn
Topics: conscience, suspicion
Even now I curse the day—and yet, I think, few come within the compass of my curse,— wherein I did not some notorious ill
PLAY: Titus Andronicus
ACT/SCENE: 5.1
SPEAKER: Aaron
CONTEXT:
LUCIUS
Art thou not sorry for these heinous deeds?
AARON
Ay, that I had not done a thousand more.
Even now I curse the day—and yet, I think,
Few come within the compass of my curse,—
Wherein I did not some notorious ill,
As kill a man, or else devise his death,
Ravish a maid, or plot the way to do it,
Accuse some innocent and forswear myself,
Set deadly enmity between two friends,
Make poor men’s cattle break their necks;
Set fire on barns and hay-stacks in the night,
And bid the owners quench them with their tears.
Oft have I digged up dead men from their graves,
And set them upright at their dear friends’ doors,
Even when their sorrows almost were forgot;
And on their skins, as on the bark of trees,
Have with my knife carved in Roman letters,
‘Let not your sorrow die, though I am dead.’
Tut, I have done a thousand dreadful things
As willingly as one would kill a fly,
And nothing grieves me heartily indeed
But that I cannot do ten thousand more.
DUTCH:
Ja, dat ik er niet duizend meer bedreef.
Zelfs nu vloek ik den dag, — maar toch, ik meen,
Niet vele zijn er door mijn vloek te treffen, —
Waarop ik geen opmerk’lijk kwaad bedreef
MORE:
Compass=Reach
Devise=Contrive
Forswear=Perjure
Compleat:
Compass=Omtrek, omkreits, begrip, bestek, bereik
To quench=Blusschen, uitblusschen; dorst lesschen, dorst verslaan
To keep within compass=Iemand in den band (in bedwang) houden
To keep within compass=Zynen plicht betrachten
To devise=Bedenken, verzinnen, uytvinden
To forswear one’s self=Eenen valschen eed doen, meyneedig zyn
To forswear a thing=Zweeren dat iets zo niet is
Topics: regret, offence, conscience, good and bad