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QUOTES FROM THE BARD
Thou art a summer bird, Which ever in the haunch of winter sings The lifting up of day.
KING
O Westmoreland, thou art a summer bird,
Which ever in the haunch of winter sings
The lifting up of day.
Enter HARCOURT
Here comes more news.
HARCOURT
From enemies heaven keep your Majesty,
And when they stand against you, may they fall
As those that I am come to tell you of.
The Earl Northumberland and the Lord Bardolph,
With a great power of English and of Scots,
Are by the shrieve of Yorkshire overthrown.
The manner and true order of the fight
This packet, please it you, contains at large. DUTCH: O, Westmoreland, gij zijt een zomervogel,
Die aan des winters verz’nen steeds den opgang
Des nieuwen dags bezingt. MORE:
Haunch=Hind part, towards the end (of winter)
Shrieve=Sheriff Topics: emotion and mood, wellbeing
I will not excuse you. You shall not be excused. Excuses shall not be admitted. There is no excuse shall serve. You shall not be excused.
PLAY: King Henry IV Part 2
ACT/SCENE: 5.1
SPEAKER: Shallow
CONTEXT:
By cock and pie, sir, you shall not away tonight. What, Davy, I say!
FALSTAFF
You must excuse me, Master Robert Shallow.
SHALLOW
I will not excuse you. You shall not be excused. Excuses shall not be admitted. There is no excuse shall serve. You shall not be excused. Why, Davy!
DUTCH:
Ik wil u niet ontschuldigen; gij zult niet ontschuldigd
worden; ontschuldigingen worden niet aangenomen; geen
ontschuldiging helpt u; gij zult niet ontschuldigd worden.
Kom toch, David!
MORE:
Schmidt:
Cock and pie=Mild oaath meaning God and the book
Cock=Corruption or rather disguise of the name of God
Topics: still in use, identity, understanding, independence
Use his men well, Davy, for they are arrant knaves and will backbite.
PLAY: King Henry IV Part 2
ACT/SCENE: 5.1
SPEAKER: Shallow
CONTEXT:
SHALLOW
Yea, Davy. I will use him well. A friend i’ th’ court is better than a penny in purse. Use his men well, Davy, for they are arrant knaves and will backbite.
DAVY
No worse than they are back-bitten, sir, for they have marvellous foul linen.
SHALLOW
Well-conceited, Davy. About thy business, Davy.
DUTCH:
Onthaal zijn manschappen goed, David, want zij zijn aartsschelmen en achter den rug maken zij iemand zwart.
MORE:
Proverb: A friend at court is as good as a penny in the purse.
Schmidt:
Conceited=possessed with an idea; fanciful, imaginative
Marvellous foul=very dirty; filthy
Backbite=to slander one absent
Use=treat
Onions:
Conceited=full of imagination or fancy, ingenious; possessed of an idea
Compleat:
Backbite=Achterklappen, belasteren
Marvellous=Wonderlyk
Burgersdijk notes:
Achter den rug maken iemand zwart. In ‘t Engelsch een dergelijke woordspeling met backbite.
Topics: law, authority, offence, punishment
An honest man, sir, is able to speak for himself when a knave is not.
PLAY: King Henry IV Part 2
ACT/SCENE: 5.1
SPEAKER: Davy
CONTEXT:
I grant your Worship that he is a knave, sir, but yet, God
forbid, sir, but a knave should have some countenance at his
friend’s request. An honest man, sir, is able to speak for
himself when a knave is not. I have served your Worship
truly, sir, this eight years; an if I cannot once or twice in a
quarter bear out a knave against an honest man, I have
a very little credit with your Worship. The knave is mine
honest friend, sir; therefore I beseech you let him be
countenanced.
DUTCH:
Een eerlijk man, heer, kan voor
zichzelf spreken, als een schelm het niet kan
MORE:
Countenance=Favour, support
Bear out=Support
Knave=Rascal, villain
Credit=Good opinion and influence derived from it
Compleat:
To bear out=Goedmaaken, staande houden, bewyzen, voorstaan’
Knave=Een guit, boef
Credit=Geloof, achting, aanzien, goede naam
They flock together in consent like so many wild geese
PLAY: King Henry IV Part 2
ACT/SCENE: 5.1
SPEAKER: Falstaff
CONTEXT:
It is a wonderful thing to see the semblable coherence of his men’s spirits and his. They, by observing of him, do bear themselves like foolish justices; he, by conversing with them, is turned into a justice-like servingman. Their spirits are so married in conjunction with the participation of society that they flock together in consent like so many wild geese.
DUTCH:
Hun ziel en zijn zie-reclhterachtige zijn onder den invloed van hun onderlingen omgang zoo met elkander getrouwd, dat zij zich eendrachtig opeendringen als even zoovele wilde ganzen.
MORE:
Schmidt:
Semblable=resembling, similar
Birds of a feather flock together wasn’t invented by Shakespeare but was already in use in the mid 16th century.
Compleat:
Semblable=Gelijk. Semblably=Desgelyks
Semblance of truth=Schyn van waarheid
Topics: leadership, friendship