QUOTES FROM THE BARD

PLAY: King Henry IV Part 2 ACT/SCENE: 3.1 SPEAKER: Warwick CONTEXT: KING
(…) But that necessity so bowed the state
That I and greatness were compelled to kiss—
“The time shall come,” thus did he follow it,
“The time will come that foul sin, gathering head,
Shall break into corruption”—so went on,
Foretelling this same time’s condition
And the division of our amity.
WARWICK
There is a history in all men’s lives
Figuring the nature of the times deceased,
The which observed, a man may prophesy,
With a near aim, of the main chance of things
As yet not come to life, which in their seeds
And weak beginnings lie intreasurèd.
Such things become the hatch and brood of time,
And by the necessary form of this,
King Richard might create a perfect guess
That great Northumberland, then false to him,
Would of that seed grow to a greater falseness,
Which should not find a ground to root upon
Unless on you. DUTCH: Elk menschenleven is als een geschied’nis,
Die de natuur des dooden tijds herspiegelt. MORE:
Proverb: He that once deceives is ever suspected (falseness)

Intreasured=Laid up, as in a treasury
Main chance=General probability
Gathering head=Coming to a head, a push

Compleat:
Now my designs gathering to a head=Nu beginnen myn voornemens ryp te worden
To look to the main chance=Het hoofdzaakelyke betragten Topics: necessity, life