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QUOTES FROM THE BARD
The world affords no law to make thee rich.
And fear’st to die? Famine is in thy cheeks.
Need and oppression starveth in thine eyes.
Contempt and beggary hangs upon thy back.
The world is not thy friend nor the world’s law.
The world affords no law to make thee rich.
Then be not poor, but break it, and take this. DUTCH: De wereld noch haar wetten zijn uw vriend;
De wereld heeft geen wet, die u verrijkt;
Wees dan niet arm, neem dit, en breek de wet.
MORE: CITED IN EU LAW: Blanco Perez & Chao Gomez (Freedom of establishment) [2009] EUECJ C-570/07_O (30 September 2009) Opinion of A-G Poiares Madura delivered on 30 September 2009 (1) Joined Cases C-570/07 and C-571/07 José Manuel Blanco Pérez and María del Pilar Chao Gómez Topics: law/legal, poverty and wealth, cited in law
I do remember an apothecary—
And hereabouts he dwells
PLAY: Romeo and Juliet
ACT/SCENE: 5.1
SPEAKER: Romeo
CONTEXT:
I do remember an apothecary—
And hereabouts he dwells—which late I noted
In tattered weeds, with overwhelming brows,
Culling of simples. Meager were his looks,
Sharp misery had worn him to the bones,
And in his needy shop a tortoise hung,
An alligator stuffed, and other skins
Of ill-shaped fishes
DUTCH:
k Herinner mij: er woont hier in de buurt
Een apotheker; onlangs zag ik hem
In haveloos gewaad; met somb’ren blik
Verlas hij kruiden; de oogen stonden hol;
‘t Gebrek had hem doorknaagd tot op ‘t gebeent’
MORE:
CITED IN US LAW: Re. the definition of “animal”: Jett v Municipal Court for the San Diego Judicial District of San Diego County, 177 Cal. App. 3d 664, 670, 223 Cal. Rptr. 111 (1986). (Court concludes that taught us is an “animal” for purpose of statute.)
CITED IN US LAW: Re. the definition of “apothecary”: Carroll Perfumers, Inc. v State, 212 Ind. 455, 7 N.E.2d 970, 972 (1937)
Topics: cited in law
Tempt not a desperate man
PLAY: Romeo and Juliet
ACT/SCENE: 5.3
SPEAKER: Romeo
CONTEXT:
I must indeed, and therefore came I hither.
Good gentle youth, tempt not a desperate man.
Fly hence and leave me. Think upon these gone.
Let them affright thee. I beseech thee, youth,
Put not another sin upon my head
By urging me to fury. O, be gone!
DUTCH:
Breng een wanhopig mens niet in verzoeking/
Tart, edel jong’ling, niet een raad’loos man
MORE:
Schmidt:
Affright=frighten, scare
Desperate=despaired of, irremediable, not to be saved
Compleat:
Affright=Veschrikken, vervaard maaken
Affrighted=Vervaard, verschrikt, bang
Topics: temptation
O serpent heart hid with a flowering face!
PLAY: Romeo and Juliet
ACT/SCENE: 3.2
SPEAKER: Juliet
CONTEXT:
O serpent heart hid with a flowering face!
Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?
Beautiful tyrant! Fiend angelical!
Dove-feathered raven, wolvish-ravening lamb!
Despisèd substance of divinest show,
Just opposite to what thou justly seem’st.
A damnèd saint, an honorable villain!
DUTCH:
O slangenhart, bij bloemzoet aangezicht!
MORE:
Divine=excellent in the highest degree, heavenly. Superl. –st “divinest show”
Show=appearance, aspect
Compleat:
Divine=Godlyk, voortreffelyk
Show (Shew)=Een vertooning
To make a fine shew=Een fraai figuur maaken, ‘er wel uitzien.
Topics: deceit, appearance
O deadly sin! O rude unthankfulness!
PLAY: Romeo and Juliet
ACT/SCENE: 3.3
SPEAKER: Friar Lawrence
CONTEXT:
O deadly sin! O rude unthankfulness!
Thy fault our law calls death, but the kind Prince,
Taking thy part, hath rushed aside the law,
And turned that black word “death” to “banishment.”
This is dear mercy, and thou seest it not.
DUTCH:
O zware zonde, o, zwarte ondankbaarheid!
MORE:
Schmidt:
To rush=vb. to move with suddenness and eager impetuosity
Metaphorically: “the prince hath –ed aside the law,”
Compleat:
To rush in=Invallen, instuiven, met een vaart inloopen, inrennen
Topics: ingratitude, law/legaloffence, mercy, punishment