QUOTES FROM THE BARD

PLAY: The Two Gentlemen of Verona
ACT/SCENE: 3.1
SPEAKER: Speed
CONTEXT:
SPEED
‘Item: She is too liberal.’
LANCE
Of her tongue she cannot, for that’s writ down she
is slow of; of her purse she shall not, for that
I’ll keep shut: now, of another thing she may, and
that cannot I help. Well, proceed.
SPEED
‘Item: She hath more hair than wit, and more faults
than hairs, and more wealth than faults.’
LANCE
Stop there; I’ll have her: she was mine, and not
mine, twice or thrice in that last article.
Rehearse that once more.
SPEED
‘Item: She hath more hair than wit,’—
LANCE
More hair than wit? It may be; I’ll prove it. The
cover of the salt hides the salt, and therefore it
is more than the salt; the hair that covers the wit
is more than the wit, for the greater hides the
less. What’s next?

DUTCH:
Item: “Zij heeft meer haar dan verstand, en meer
gebreken dan haren, en meer geld dan gebreken.”

MORE:
Proverb: Bush natural, more hair than wit

Liberal=Unrestrained, uncontrolled
Rehearse=Repeat
Salt=Salt-cellar
Compleat:
Liberal=Mild, milddaadig, goedertieren, gulhartig, openhartig
To rehearse=Verhaalen, vertellen, opzeggen
Salt seller=Een zout-vat

Topics: proverbs and idioms, intellect, flaw/fault, moneyinsult

PLAY: The Two Gentlemen of Verona
ACT/SCENE: 3.1
SPEAKER: Lance
CONTEXT:
SPEED
‘Item: She is too liberal.’
LANCE
Of her tongue she cannot, for that’s writ down she
is slow of; of her purse she shall not, for that
I’ll keep shut: now, of another thing she may, and
that cannot I help. Well, proceed.
SPEED
‘Item: She hath more hair than wit, and more faults
than hairs, and more wealth than faults.’
LANCE
Stop there; I’ll have her: she was mine, and not
mine, twice or thrice in that last article.
Rehearse that once more.
SPEED
‘Item: She hath more hair than wit,’—
LANCE
More hair than wit? It may be; I’ll prove it. The
cover of the salt hides the salt, and therefore it
is more than the salt; the hair that covers the wit
is more than the wit, for the greater hides the
less. What’s next?

DUTCH:
Meer haar dan verstand, — dat mag wel: ik wil het
bewijzen: het deksel van het zoutvat overdekt het
zout, en daarom is het meer dan het zout; het haar,
dat het verstand bedekt, is meer dan het verstand, want
het grootere overdekt het kleinere. Wat volgt?

MORE:
Proverb: Bush natural, more hair than wit
Liberal=Unrestrained, uncontrolled
Rehearse=Repeat
Salt=Salt-cellar
Compleat:
Liberal=Mild, milddaadig, goedertieren, gulhartig, openhartig
To rehearse=Verhaalen, vertellen, opzeggen
Salt seller=Een zout-vat

Topics: proverbs and idioms, intellect, flaw/fault, moneyinsult

PLAY: The Two Gentlemen of Verona
ACT/SCENE: 3.1
SPEAKER: Lance
CONTEXT:
SPEED
‘Item: She hath more hair than wit,’—
LANCE
More hair than wit? It may be; I’ll prove it. The
cover of the salt hides the salt, and therefore it
is more than the salt; the hair that covers the wit
is more than the wit, for the greater hides the
less. What’s next?
SPEED
‘And more faults than hairs,’—
LANCE
That’s monstrous: O, that that were out!
SPEED
‘And more wealth than faults.’
LANCE
Why, that word makes the faults gracious. Well,
I’ll have her; and if it be a match, as nothing is
impossible,—

DUTCH:
O, dat woord maakt de gebreken bekoorlijk! Goed,
ik wil haar hebben; en als wij een paar worden, zooals
geen ding onmoog’lijk is.

MORE:
Proverb: Nothing is impossible (hard, difficult) to a willing heart (mind)
Proverb: Bush natural, more hair than wit
Salt=Salt-cellar
Gracious=Acceptable
Compleat:
Salt seller=Een zout-vat
Gracious=Genadig, genadenryk, aangenaam, lieftallig, gunstig

Topics: proverbs and idioms, intellect, flaw/fault, moneyinsult