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QUOTES FROM THE BARD
He is my prisoner. If I let him go, the debt he owes will be required of me
Masters, let him go.
He is my prisoner, and you shall not have him.
PINCH
Go, bind this man, for he is frantic too.
ADRIANA
What wilt thou do, thou peevish officer?
Hast thou delight to see a wretched man
Do outrage and displeasure to himself?
OFFICER
He is my prisoner. If I let him go,
The debt he owes will be required of me.
ADRIANA
I will discharge thee ere I go from thee.
Bear me forthwith unto his creditor,
And, knowing how the debt grows, I will pay it.—
Good Master Doctor, see him safe conveyed
Home to my house. O most unhappy day! DUTCH: t Is mijn gevang’ne; ontsnapt hij mij, dan wordt,
Wat hij betalen moet, op mij verhaald MORE: Cited in Shakespeare’s Legal Maxims (William Lowes Rushton)
“If a sheriff or gaoler suffers a prisoner to escape upon mesne process (that is, during the pendency of a suit), he is liable to action on the case.” (Cro. Eliz. 625, Bennion v Watson)
Peevish=Silly, spiteful
Displeasure=Offence, harm
Outrage=Rude violence, contempt shown to law and decency
Compleat:
Peevish=Kribbig, gemelyk
Outrage=Smaad, spyt, overlast, leed
Displeasure=Misnoegen, mishaagen, ongenade
To do a displeasure to one=Iemand verdriet aandoen Topics: law/legal, debt/obligation, punishment, remedy, consequence
I am a man whom fortune hath cruelly scratched
PLAY: All’s Well that Ends Well
ACT/SCENE: 5.2
SPEAKER: Parolles
CONTEXT:
CLOWN
Here is a purr of fortune’s, sir, or of fortune’s
cat,—but not a musk-cat, —that has fallen into the
unclean fishpond of her displeasure, and, as he
says, is muddied withal: pray you, sir, use the
carp as you may; for he looks like a poor, decayed,
ingenious, foolish, rascally knave. I do pity his
distress in my similes of comfort and leave him to
your lordship.
PAROLLES
My lord, I am a man whom fortune hath cruelly
scratched.
LAFEW
And what would you have me to do? ‘Tis too late to
pare her nails now. Wherein have you played the
knave with fortune, that she should scratch you, who
of herself is a good lady and would not have knaves
thrive long under her? There’s a quart d’ecu for
you: let the justices make you and fortune friends:
I am for other business.
DUTCH:
Edel heer, ik ben een man, die door Fortuin wreed
gekrabd is.
MORE:
Purr or pur=Piece of dung, pun on cat’s purr; asl pun on the knave in a deck of cards
Carp=(1) Fish and (2) Some who talks or complains a lot
Withal=From it, as a consequence
Musk-cat=Musk-deer, valued for its scent (also known as muscat)
Similes of=Comparative
Compleat:
Musk-cat=Civet cat
Carp=Karper
To carp=Bedillen, muggeziften
Simile=Gelykenis, vergelyking
Topics: consequence, fate/destiny
The breaking of so great a thing should make a greater crack
PLAY: Antony and Cleopatra
ACT/SCENE: 5.1
SPEAKER: Caesar
CONTEXT:
DERCETUS
I say, O Caesar, Antony is dead.
CAESAR
The breaking of so great a thing should make
A greater crack. The round world
Should have shook lions into civil streets
And citizens to their dens. The death of Antony
Is not a single doom. In the name lay
A moiety of the world.
DERCETUS
He is dead, Caesar,
Not by a public minister of justice,
Nor by a hirèd knife, but that self hand
Which writ his honour in the acts it did
Hath, with the courage which the heart did lend it,
Splitted the heart. This is his sword.
I robbed his wound of it. Behold it stained
With his most noble blood.
DUTCH:
Wat? Volgt geen grooter slag en schok op ‘t vallen
Van zoo iets groots?
MORE:
A greater crack=More disruption
Civil=City
Moeity=Half share
Self=Same
Compleat:
Civil=Burgerlyk; Heusch, beleefd
Moeity=De helft
Topics: consequence, death, legacy
What, art thou afraid?
– Not to kill him, having a warrant, but to be damned for killing him
PLAY: Richard III
ACT/SCENE: 1.4
SPEAKER: Second murderer
CONTEXT:
FIRST MURDERER
What, art thou afraid?
SECOND MURDERER
Not to kill him, having a warrant, but to be damned
for killing him, from the which no warrant can defend
me.
DUTCH:
Eerste Moordenaar.
– Wat! zijt gij bang?
Tweede Moordenaar.
– Niet om hem to dooden, want daartoe heb ik een volmacht,
maar voor de verdoemenis, als ik hem dood ;
want daartegen kan geen volmacht mij lets helpen .
MORE:
Warrant=Authorisation
From the which=From which
Compleat:
Warrant=Een schriftuurlyke order, volmagtiging
Topics: offence, caution, foul play, consequence
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