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QUOTES FROM THE BARD
There are no tricks in plain and simple faith
He greets me well.—Your master, Pindarus,
In his own change or by ill officers
Hath given me some worthy cause to wish
Things done, undone. But if he be at hand
I shall be satisfied.
PINDARUS
I do not doubt
But that my noble master will appear
Such as he is, full of regard and honour.
BRUTUS
He is not doubted.—A word, Lucillius.
How he received you, let me be resolved.
LUCILLIUS
With courtesy and with respect enough.
But not with such familiar instances
Nor with such free and friendly conference
As he hath used of old.
BRUTUS
Thou hast described
A hot friend cooling. Ever note, Lucillius,
When love begins to sicken and decay,
It useth an enforcèd ceremony.
There are no tricks in plain and simple faith.
But hollow men, like horses hot at hand,
Make gallant show and promise of their mettle. DUTCH: Gij teekent daar
Een warmen vriend, die koel wordt. Geef steeds acht,
Als vriendschap kwijnen en verwelken gaat,
Dan bezigt zij gedwongen hoflijkheid .
De slechte rechte trouw weet niets van kunsten. MORE: Proverb: Full of courtesy full of craft
Proverb: Things done cannot be undone
Greets me well=Sends greetings through a worthy emissary
Change=Changed mind
Ill=Bad, untrustworthy
Worthy=Justifiable, respectable
Satisfied=Receive a satisfactory explanation
Regard=Respect
Resolved=Informed
Familiar instances=Signs of affection
Conference=Conversation
Enforcèd=Strained
Hot friend=Previously close friend
Trick=Artifice
Compleat:
Change=Verschiet, verscheydenheyd, verandering, verwisseling
Ill=Quaad, ondeugend, onpasselijk
Worthy=Waardig, eerwaardig, voortreffelyk, uytmuntend, deftig
Satisfaction, content=Voldoening
Regard=Opzigt, inzigt, omzigtigheyd, zorg, acht, achting
Resolve (untie, decide, determine a hard question, difficulty etc.)=Oplossen, ontwarren, ontknoopten
Resolve (deliberation, decision)=Beraad, beslissing, uitsluitsel
Familiar=Gemeenzaam
Conference=Onderhandeling, t’zamenspraak, mondgemeenschap
Enforcèd=Gedwongen, opgedrongen
Trick=Een looze trek, greep, gril Topics: respect, civility, proverbs and idioms, reply, judgment, resolution
When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony
PLAY: Julius Caesar
ACT/SCENE: 4.2
SPEAKER: Brutus
CONTEXT:
BRUTUS
He greets me well.—Your master, Pindarus,
In his own change or by ill officers
Hath given me some worthy cause to wish
Things done, undone. But if he be at hand
I shall be satisfied.
PINDARUS
I do not doubt
But that my noble master will appear
Such as he is, full of regard and honour.
BRUTUS
He is not doubted.—A word, Lucillius.
How he received you, let me be resolved.
LUCILLIUS
With courtesy and with respect enough.
But not with such familiar instances
Nor with such free and friendly conference
As he hath used of old.
BRUTUS
Thou hast described
A hot friend cooling. Ever note, Lucillius,
When love begins to sicken and decay,
It useth an enforcèd ceremony.
There are no tricks in plain and simple faith.
But hollow men, like horses hot at hand,
Make gallant show and promise of their mettle.
DUTCH:
Gij teekent daar
Een warmen vriend, die koel wordt. Geef steeds acht,
Als vriendschap kwijnen en verwelken gaat,
Dan bezigt zij gedwongen hoflijkheid .
De slechte rechte trouw weet niets van kunsten.
MORE:
Proverb: Full of courtesy full of craft
Proverb: Things done cannot be undone
Greets me well=Sends greetings through a worthy emissary
Change=Changed mind
Ill=Bad, untrustworthy
Worthy=Justifiable, respectable
Satisfied=Receive a satisfactory explanation
Regard=Respect
Resolved=Informed
Familiar instances=Signs of affection
Conference=Conversation
Enforcèd=Strained
Hot friend=Previously close friend
Trick=Artifice
Compleat:
Change=Verschiet, verscheydenheyd, verandering, verwisseling
Ill=Quaad, ondeugend, onpasselijk
Worthy=Waardig, eerwaardig, voortreffelyk, uytmuntend, deftig
Satisfaction, content=Voldoening
Regard=Opzigt, inzigt, omzigtigheyd, zorg, acht, achting
Resolve (untie, decide, determine a hard question, difficulty etc.)=Oplossen, ontwarren, ontknoopten
Resolve (deliberation, decision)=Beraad, beslissing, uitsluitsel
Familiar=Gemeenzaam
Conference=Onderhandeling, t’zamenspraak, mondgemeenschap
Enforcèd=Gedwongen, opgedrongen
Trick=Een looze trek, greep, gril
Topics: respect, civility, proverbs and idioms, reply, judgment, resolution
I know he would not be a wolf but that he sees the Romans are but sheep
PLAY: Julius Caesar
ACT/SCENE: 1.3
SPEAKER: Cassius
CONTEXT:
CASSIUS
And why should Caesar be a tyrant then?
Poor man! I know he would not be a wolf
But that he sees the Romans are but sheep.
He were no lion were not Romans hinds.
Those that with haste will make a mighty fire
Begin it with weak straws. What trash is Rome,
What rubbish and what offal, when it serves
For the base matter to illuminate
So vile a thing as Caesar! But, O grief,
Where hast thou led me? I perhaps speak this
Before a willing bondman. Then I know
My answer must be made. But I am armed,
And dangers are to me indifferent.
DUTCH:
En waarom zou dan Caesar dwingland zijn?
Een nietig mensch! Ik weet, hij waar’ geen wolf,
Zoo hij niet in Romeinen schapen zag.
MORE:
CITED IN US LAW: Re. The definition of “rubbish”: Gorman v City of Cleveland, 26 Ohio App. 109, 159 NE 136 (1927)
Why should=How can
Hinds=Female deer; servants
Base=Underlying; low
Trash=Twigs, straw
Vile=Worthless
Answer must be made=I am accountable
Offal=Garbage
Armed=Prepared
Indifferent=Insignifcant
Compleat:
Hind=Hinde; Boere knecht
Base=Ondergeschikt; Onderbehangsel
Trash=Lompige waar, ondeugend goed
Vile=Slecht, gering, verachtelyk, eerloos
Armed=Gewapend, toegerust
Indifferent=Onvercheelig, middelmaatig, koelzinnig, onzydig, passelyk, taamelyk, tussenbeyde
Topics: haste, preparation, reply, cited in law
Those that with haste will make a mighty fire begin it with weak straws
PLAY: Julius Caesar
ACT/SCENE: 1.3
SPEAKER: Cassius
CONTEXT:
CASSIUS
And why should Caesar be a tyrant then?
Poor man! I know he would not be a wolf
But that he sees the Romans are but sheep.
He were no lion were not Romans hinds.
Those that with haste will make a mighty fire
Begin it with weak straws. What trash is Rome,
What rubbish and what offal, when it serves
For the base matter to illuminate
So vile a thing as Caesar! But, O grief,
Where hast thou led me? I perhaps speak this
Before a willing bondman. Then I know
My answer must be made. But I am armed,
And dangers are to me indifferent.
DUTCH:
Wat schaafsel en wat afval, zoo ‘t als brandstof
Moet dienen om iets nietigs, iets als Caesar,
In ‘t licht te stellen?
MORE:
CITED IN US LAW: Re. The definition of “rubbish”: Gorman v City of Cleveland, 26 Ohio App. 109, 159 NE 136 (1927)
Why should=How can
Hinds=Female deer; servants
Base=Underlying; low
Trash=Twigs, straw
Vile=Worthless
Answer must be made=I am accountable
Offal=Garbage
Armed=Prepared
Indifferent=Insignifcant
Compleat:
Hind=Hinde; Boere knecht
Base=Ondergeschikt; Onderbehangsel
Trash=Lompige waar, ondeugend goed
Vile=Slecht, gering, verachtelyk, eerloos
Armed=Gewapend, toegerust
Indifferent=Onvercheelig, middelmaatig, koelzinnig, onzydig, passelyk, taamelyk, tussenbeyde
Topics: haste, preparation, reply, cited in law
I cannot tell if to depart in silence or bitterly to speak in your reproof best fitteth my degree or your condition
PLAY: Richard III
ACT/SCENE: 3.7
SPEAKER: Richard, Duke of Gloucester
CONTEXT:
RICHARD
I cannot tell if to depart in silence
Or bitterly to speak in your reproof
Best fitteth my degree or your condition.
If not to answer, you might haply think
Tongue-tied ambition, not replying, yielded
To bear the golden yoke of sovereignty,
Which fondly you would here impose on me.
If to reprove you for this suit of yours,
So seasoned with your faithful love to me,
Then on the other side I checked my friends.
Therefore, to speak, and to avoid the first,
And then, in speaking, not to incur the last,
Definitively thus I answer you:
Your love deserves my thanks, but my desert
Unmeritable shuns your high request.
First, if all obstacles were cut away
And that my path were even to the crown
As the ripe revenue and due of birth,
Yet so much is my poverty of spirit,
So mighty and so many my defects,
That I would rather hide me from my greatness,
Being a bark to brook no mighty sea,
Than in my greatness covet to be hid
And in the vapor of my glory smothered.
But, God be thanked, there is no need of me,
And much I need to help you, were there need.
The royal tree hath left us royal fruit,
Which, mellowed by the stealing hours of time,
Will well become the seat of majesty,
And make, no doubt, us happy by his reign.
On him I lay what you would lay on me,
The right and fortune of his happy stars,
Which God defend that I should wring from him.
DUTCH:
Ik weet niet, of stilzwijgend heen te gaan,
Of u met scherpe reed’nen te bestraffen,
Met mijnen rang en uwen staat best strookt.
MORE:
Proverb: Silence is (gives) consent
Fitteth=Is appropriate to
Degree=Status
Condition=Position
Tongue-tied ambition.. Yielded=Silence indicated consent
Fondly=Foolishly
Check=Rebuke
Unmeritable=Without merit
Ripe revenue=Overdue debt
Poverty=Lack
Barque=Sailing vessel
Brook=Endure
Stealing=Advancing
Happy=Auspicious
Defend=Forfend
Compleat:
To fit=Passen, pas maaken, gereed maaken, voegen
Degree=Een graad, trap
Condition=Staat, gesteltenis. gelegenheyd
To be tongue-tied=Niet spreeken kunnen, of durven
Fond=Zot, dwaas, ongerymt
Check=Berispen, beteugelen, intoomen, verwyten
Poverty=Armoede
Bark=Scheepje
Brook=Verdraagen, uitstaan
To steal=Doorsluypen
To steal away=Ontsteelen, wegsluypen
Topics: proverbs and idioms, law/legal, reply, claim