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O mischief, thou art swift
To enter in the thoughts of desperate men!

PLAY: Romeo and Juliet ACT/SCENE: 5.1 SPEAKER: Romeo CONTEXT: Well, Juliet, I will lie with thee tonight.
Let’s see for means. O mischief, thou art swift
To enter in the thoughts of desperate men! DUTCH: Euveldaad! Hoe snel neemt gij de ziel van radelozen in!/
Euveldaad! hoe snel
Neemt gij de ziel van radeloozen in!
MORE: Schmidt:
Mischief=evil done on purpose, harm, injury
Desperate=despaired of, irremediable, not to be saved
Compleat:
Mischief=onheil, dwaad, ongeluk, ramp, verderf, heilloosheid
Desperate (who is in despair)=Wanhopig
To be in a desperate condition=In een vertwyfelden staat zyn Topics: good and bad, temptation

Categories: good and bad, Romeo and Juliet|

Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.

PLAY: Romeo and Juliet
ACT/SCENE: 4.2
SPEAKER: Second Servingman
CONTEXT:
Marry, sir, ’tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers. Therefore he that cannot lick his fingers goes not with me.

DUTCH:
Het is een slechte kok, die zijn eigen vingers niet kan aflikken

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Topics: misc.

Categories: misc., Romeo and Juliet|

There is thy gold, worse poison to men’s souls

PLAY: Romeo and Juliet
ACT/SCENE: 5.1
SPEAKER: Romeo
CONTEXT:
There is thy gold, worse poison to men’s souls,
Doing more murder in this loathsome world,
Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell.
I sell thee poison. Thou hast sold me none.
Farewell. Buy food, and get thyself in flesh.—
Come, cordial and not poison, go with me
To Juliet’s grave, for there must I use thee

DUTCH:
Hier is uw goud, een erger zielsvergif
Een boozer moorddrank in deez’ booze wereld,
Dan ‘t brouwsel, dat gij niet verkoopen moogt.

MORE:
Schmidt:
Compound=composition, mixture
Compleat:
No reference to compound as a noun.
To compound with one’s creditors=Met zyn Schuld-eischers overeenkomen, accordeeren

Topics: poverty and wealth, money, good and bad

Categories: good and bad, poverty and wealth, Romeo and Juliet|

The world affords no law to make thee rich.

PLAY: Romeo and Juliet
ACT/SCENE: 5.1
SPEAKER: Romeo
CONTEXT:
Art thou so bare and full of wretchedness,
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

Categories: cited in law, law/legal, Romeo and Juliet|

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

Categories: cited in law, Romeo and Juliet|

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