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I have almost forgot the taste of fears.

PLAY: Macbeth ACT/SCENE: 5.5 SPEAKER: Macbeth CONTEXT: I have almost forgot the taste of fears.
The time has been my senses would have cooled
To hear a night-shriek, and my fell of hair
Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir
As life were in ’t. I have supped full with horrors.
Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts
Cannot once start me. DUTCH: k Heb schier vergeten, hoe het vreezen smaakt. MORE: Onions:
Fell=Skin, covering
Schmidt:
Treatise=Discourse, talk, tale
Dismal=Striking the mind with sorrow or dismay
Compleat:
Treatise=Een verhandeling, traktaat
Dismal=Schrikkelyk, gruuwelyk, yslyk, overdroevig, naar
Fell (skin)=Vel, huid Topics: time, memory, age/experience, life

Categories: age/experience, life, Macbeth, time|

Lay on, Macduff, and damned be him who first cries ‘Hold! enough!

PLAY: Macbeth
ACT/SCENE: 5.8
SPEAKER: Macbeth
CONTEXT:
I will not yield,
To kiss the ground before young Malcolm’s feet,
And to be baited with the rabble’s curse.
Though Birnam Wood be come to Dunsinane,
And thou opposed, being of no woman born,
Yet I will try the last. Before my body
I throw my warlike shield. Lay on, Macduff,
And damned be him that first cries, “Hold, enough!”

DUTCH:
Ik waag het uiterst; val dus uit, Macduff;
‘k Werp voor mij ‘t schild, dat meen’gen houw verdroeg;
Verdoemd wie ‘t eerste roept: „Houd op, genoeg!”

MORE:
Frequently misquoted as “Lead on, Macduff!”
Schmidt:
Bait=To harass in a manner like that of dogs
Rabble=the mean people, populace
Compleat:
Bait=Aas leggen, lokken lokaazen
Rabble=Het graauw, jan hagel, jan-rap en zyn maat, het gespuis
CITED IN EU LAW:
ECLI:EU:C:2011:254 Case C-53/10 Land Hessen v Franz Mūksch OHG
Opinion of A-G Sharpston
“It is common ground that Merck’s establishment was originally situated at a greater distance from the city, parts of which have crept towards it – reminding the agent for the German Government, as he stated at the hearing, of Birnam Wood coming to Dunsinane (Macbeth, Act 5).”

Topics: misquoted, still in use

Categories: Macbeth, misquoted|

That keep the word of promise to our ear,
And break it to our hope

PLAY: Macbeth
ACT/SCENE: 5.8
SPEAKER: Macbeth
CONTEXT:
Accursèd be that tongue that tells me so,
For it hath cowed my better part of man!
And be these juggling fiends no more believed,
That palter with us in a double sense,
That keep the word of promise to our ear,
And break it to our hope. I’ll not fight with thee.

DUTCH:
En nooit
Leene iemand aan die guichelduivels ‘t oor,
Die ons door dubbelzinnigheid bedriegen,
‘t Beloofde houden aan ons oor, maar ‘t breken
Aan onze hoop.

MORE:
Schmidt:
Palter=To shift, to dodge, to shuffle, to equivocate
Compleat:
To palter=Weyfelen, leuteren, haperen, achteruyt kruypen, aerzelen, bedektelyk handelen
CITED IN US LAW:
Prather v. Dayton Power & Light Company, 918 F.2d 1255, 1262 (6th Cir. 1990)(dissent);
Hydro-Dyne, Inc. v. Ecodyne Corporation, 812 F.2d 1407 (6th Cir. 1987)(dissent);
Shango v. Jurich, 521 F.Supp. 1196, 1202 (N.D.Ill. 1981);
Stringer v. Thompson, 537 F.Supp. 133, 136 (N.D.Ill. 1982);
State v. Neely, 112 N.M. 702, 819 P.2d 249 (1991);
U.S. v. Pollard, 959 F.2d 1011, 1039 (D.C.Cir. 1992)(Williams, J.)(dissenting). “Though I do not wish to be too critical of the government, and though the analogy is inexact on some points, the case does remind me of Macbeth’s curse against the witches whose promises-and their sophistical interpretation of them – led him to doom:”.

Topics: cited in law, promise, language, hope

Categories: cited in law, language, Macbeth|

Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him.

PLAY: Macbeth
ACT/SCENE: 5.1
SPEAKER: Lady Macbeth
CONTEXT:
Out, damned spot! Out, I say!—One, two. Why, then, ’tis time to do ’t. Hell is murky!—Fie, my lord, fie! A soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account?—Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him.

DUTCH:
Maar wie zou gedacht hebben, dat de oude
man zooveel bloed bij zich had?

MORE:

Three oft-quoted phrases from this monologue:
1. Out, damned spot; out, I say.
2. Hell is murky
3. Who would have thought the old man to have so much blood in him.

Topics: still in use

Categories: Macbeth, still in use|