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QUOTES FROM THE BARD
A black day will it be to somebody
ACT/SCENE: 5.5
SPEAKER: King Richard III
CONTEXT:
RATCLIFFE
He smiled and said “The better for our purpose.”
KING RICHARD
He was in the right, and so indeed it is.
Tell the clock there. Give me a calendar.
Who saw the sun today?
RATCLIFFE
Not I, my lord.
KING RICHARD
Then he disdains to shine, for by the book
He should have braved the east an hour ago
A black day will it be to somebody. Ratcliffe!
RATCLIFFE
My lord.
KING RICHARD
The sun will not be seen today.
The sky doth frown and lour upon our army.
I would these dewy tears were from the ground.
Not shine today? Why, what is that to me
More than to Richmond, for the selfsame heaven
That frowns on me looks sadly upon him.
DUTCH:
Dan weigert ze ons haar licht, want, naar het boek,
Moest zij een uur reeds in het oosten prijken.
Een zwarte dag zal dit voor iemand zijn.
Ratcliff!
MORE:
Proverb: It will be a black (bloody) day to somebody
Disdains=Refuses
Book=Almanac
Lour=Scowl
Compleat:
To disdain=Versmaaden, verachten, zich verontwaaardigen
To loure (lowr)=Donker uytzien’ stuursch kyken
Topics: proverbs and idioms, fate/destiny
Conscience is but a word that cowards use, devised at first to keep the strong in awe
PLAY: Richard III
ACT/SCENE: 5.5
SPEAKER: Richard
CONTEXT:
NORFOLK
A good direction, warlike sovereign.
This found I on my tent this morning.
KING RICHARD
Jockey of Norfolk, be not so bold.
For Dickon thy master is bought and sold.
A thing devisèd by the enemy.—
Go, gentlemen, every man unto his charge.
Let not our babbling dreams affright our souls.
Conscience is but a word that cowards use,
Devised at first to keep the strong in awe.
Our strong arms be our conscience, swords our law.
March on. Join bravely. Let us to it pell mell
If not to heaven, then hand in hand to hell.
What shall I say more than I have inferred?
Remember whom you are to cope withal,
A sort of vagabonds, rascals, and runaways,
A scum of Bretons and base lackey peasants,
Whom their o’er-cloyèd country vomits forth
To desperate ventures and assured destruction.
You sleeping safe, they bring to you unrest;
You having lands and blessed with beauteous wives,
(…)
DUTCH:
Geweten is een lafaardswoord, een vond,
Die sterken, geeft men toe, in banden legt;
De vuist zij ons geweten, ‘t zwaard ons recht .
MORE:
Proverb: To be bought and sold
Direction=Plan
Dickon=Richard (Dick)
Bought and sold=Betrayed
Strong arms=Might, power
Be our conscience=Makes us right
Join=Join battle
Compleat:
Direction=Het bestier, aanwijzing
The directing of one’s intentions=Het bestieren van iemands voorneemen
Conscience=Het geweeten
Burgersdijk notes:
Hans Norfolk, tijdig heil gezocht, enz . Dit rijmpjen, waarmede men Norfolk, die aan Richard trouw bleef, hoewel hij zjjn handelingen laakte, tot afval trachtte te bewegen, luidt in de kroniek:
Jocky of Norfolk, be not too bold,
For Dickon thy master is bought and sold .
De folio heeft ten onrechte so in plaats van too; Jocky staat voor John, zooals Dickon voor Richard.
Topics: proverbs and idioms, betrayal, conscience, order/society
A milksop, one that never in his life felt so much cold as overshoes in snow?
PLAY: Richard III
ACT/SCENE: 5.5
SPEAKER: King Richard III
CONTEXT:
KING RICHARD
(…) What shall I say more than I have inferred?
Remember whom you are to cope withal,
A sort of vagabonds, rascals, and runaways,
A scum of Bretons and base lackey peasants,
Whom their o’er-cloyèd country vomits forth
To desperate ventures and assured destruction.
You sleeping safe, they bring to you unrest;
You having lands and blessed with beauteous wives,
They would restrain the one, distain the other.
And who doth lead them but a paltry fellow,
Long kept in Brittany at our mother’s cost,
A milksop, one that never in his life
Felt so much cold as overshoes in snow?
Let’s whip these stragglers o’er the seas again,
Lash hence these overweening rags of France,
These famished beggars weary of their lives,
Who, but for dreaming on this fond exploit,
For want of means, poor rats, had hanged themselves.
If we be conquered, let men conquer us,
And not these bastard Bretons, whom our fathers
Have in their own land beaten, bobbed, and thumped,
And in record, left them the heirs of shame.
Shall these enjoy our lands, lie with our wives,
Ravish our daughters?
DUTCH:
Een melkmuil, die zijn leven lang zich nooit
Tot boven de enkels in de sneeuw gewaagd heeft!
MORE:
Sort=Gang
Lackey=Low-born
O’ercloyed=Overcrowded
Milksop=Coward
Distain=Sully
Fond=Foolish
Bobbed=Drubbed
Compleat:
Sort=Slach, wyze
Lackey (lacquey)=Een voetjongen, volgdienaar, lakkey
To cloy=Overlaaden
Milk-sop=Een Zoetzapige Jorden die zich van ‘t wyf laat regeren
Distain=Bevlekken, besmetten, bezwalken
Fond=Zot, dwaas, ongerymt
Bobbed=Begekt, geloerd
Burgersdijk notes:
Wat heb ik meer te zeggen, dan ik deed? Ongetwijfeld een vreemd begin eener toespraak; men moet er uit vermoeden, dat Richard reeds vroeger zjjne troepen heeft toegesproken en dat wij in deze toespraak slechts eene laatste aansporing hebben te zien, of wel, dat het begin verloren is gegaan. Dat beide veldheeren een aanspraak gehouden hebben tot hun leger, deelt de kroniek van Holinshed mede; van Richard’s toespraak weten wij, dat hij Richmond genoemd heeft “eea Walliser, een onnoozele bloed, zonder moed of ervaring, die aan het hof van Bretagne als een gevangene geleefd heeft op kosten van mij en van mijn broeder .” Aan dit laatste heeft Sh . rep . 324 ontleend: “Long kept in Bretagne at our mother’s cost”. “Die in Bretagne ‘t brood at onzer moeder” . Shakespeare schreef mother, schoon het brother moest zijn; Richard’s broeder, koning Edward, had aan den hertog van Bretagne een jaargeld betaald op voorwaarde, dat hij aan Richmond alle ondernemingen tegen Engeland zou heletten. In den tweeden druk van Holinshed’s kroniek (van 1586) staat to dezer plaatse de drukfout nioother in plaats van brother, en deze druk was het dus zeker, die door Shakespeare gebezigd werd.
Topics: order/society, value
I have not that alacrity of spirit nor cheer of mind that I was wont to have
PLAY: Richard III
ACT/SCENE: 5.3
SPEAKER: King Richard III
CONTEXT:
RATCLIFFE
Thomas the earl of Surrey and himself,
Much about cockshut time, from troop to troop
Went through the army cheering up the soldiers.
RICHARD
So, I am satisfied. Give me a bowl of wine.
I have not that alacrity of spirit
Nor cheer of mind that I was wont to have.
Set it down. Is ink and paper ready?
RATCLIFFE
It is, my lord.
RICHARD
Bid my guard watch. Leave me.
Ratcliffe, about the mid of night come to my tent
And help to arm me. Leave me, I say.
DUTCH:
Ik heb ditmaal den opgewekten geest,
Den blijden moed niet, dien ik plach te hebben.
MORE:
Cockshut time=Twilight
Wont to=Customarily
Alacrity of spirit=Good cheer
Compleat:
Cock-shoot time=Schemeravond
Wont=Gewoonte
Spirit=Moed
Alacrity=Wakkerheyd, fluksheyd
Topics: satisfaction, life, age/experience, hope/optimism
If you do free your children from the sword, your children’s children quits it in your age
PLAY: Richard III
ACT/SCENE: 5.3
SPEAKER: Richmond
CONTEXT:
RICHMOND
Why, then ’tis time to arm and give direction.
More than I have said, loving countrymen,
The leisure and enforcement of the time
Forbids to dwell upon. Yet remember this:
God and our good cause fight upon our side.
The prayers of holy saints and wrongèd souls,
Like high-reared bulwarks, stand before our faces.
Richard except, those whom we fight against
Had rather have us win than him they follow.
For what is he they follow? Truly, gentlemen,
A bloody tyrant and a homicide;
One raised in blood, and one in blood established;
One that made means to come by what he hath,
And slaughtered those that were the means to help him;
A base foul stone, made precious by the foil
Of England’s chair, where he is falsely set;
One that hath ever been God’s enemy.
Then if you fight against God’s enemy,
God will, in justice, ward you as his soldiers.
If you do sweat to put a tyrant down,
You sleep in peace, the tyrant being slain.
If you do fight against your country’s foes,
Your country’s fat shall pay your pains the hire.
If you do fight in safeguard of your wives,
Your wives shall welcome home the conquerors.
If you do free your children from the sword,
Your children’s children quits it in your age.
Then, in the name of God and all these rights,
Advance your standards. Draw your willing swords.
For me, the ransom of my bold attempt
Shall be this cold corpse on the earth’s cold face;
But if I thrive, the gain of my attempt
The least of you shall share his part thereof.
Sound drums and trumpets boldly and cheerfully;
God and Saint George! Richmond and victory!
DUTCH:
Behoedt gij uwe kind’ren voor het zwaard,
Uw grijsheid loonen ‘t uwer kind’ren kind’ren .
MORE:
Bulwarks=Ramparts
Raised=Came to the throne
Ward=Protect
Fat=Surfeit
Thrive=Succeed
Compleat:
Bulwark=Bolwerk
To ward=Bewaaren, de wacht hebben, op de wacht zyn
To ward off=Afweeren
To thrive=Voorspoedig zyn, tyk worden, wel tieren, bedyen
Topics: leadership, fate/destiny, life, justice, manipulation