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QUOTES FROM THE BARD
But if it prove true, … have you any way then to unfool me again?
ACT/SCENE:
SPEAKER: Ford
CONTEXT:
MISTRESS FORD
Go, sirs, take the basket again on your shoulders:
your master is hard at door; if he bid you set it
down, obey him: quickly, dispatch.
FIRST SERVANT
Come, come, take it up.
SECOND SERVANT
Pray heaven it be not full of knight again.
FIRST SERVANT
I hope not; I had as lief bear so much lead.
FORD
Ay, but if it prove true, Master Page, have you any
way then to unfool me again? Set down the basket,
villain! Somebody call my wife. Youth in a basket!
O you panderly rascals! there’s a knot, a ging, a
pack, a conspiracy against me: now shall the devil
be shamed. What, wife, I say! Come, come forth!
Behold what honest clothes you send forth to bleaching!
DUTCH:
Ja, maar als het toch waar blijkt te zijn, vriend Page,
weet gij dan een middel, om mij zotskap-af te doen
zijn?
MORE:
Proverb: Speak the truth and shame the devil
Hard at=Close by
Youth in a basket=Exclamation
Knot=Group, crowd
Ging=Gang
Compleat:
Knot=Een rist of trop
Gang=Gezelschap, rot, trop
Topics: proverbs and idioms|remedy|truth
We do not know what’s brought to pass under the profession of fortune-telling
PLAY: The Merry Wives of Windsor
ACT/SCENE:
SPEAKER: Ford
CONTEXT:
FORD
A witch, a quean, an old cozening quean! Have I not
forbid her my house? She comes of errands, does
she? We are simple men; we do not know what’s
brought to pass under the profession of
fortune-telling. She works by charms, by spells,
by the figure, and such daubery as this is, beyond
our element we know nothing. Come down, you witch,
you hag, you; come down, I say!
DUTCH:
Wij zijn onnoozele mannen
wij weten niet, wat er binnengesmokkeld wordt;
onder de leus van waar te zeggen.
MORE:
Quean=Slang for a prostitute
Cozen=To cheat
Profession=Professed purpose, pretence
Figure=Effigy
Daubery=Trickery
Beyond our element=Beyond our ken
Compleat:
Quean=Hoer, slons, sloery
Cozen=Bedriegen
He doth not live up to his profession=Hy beleeft niet het gene dat hy belydt
Figure=Voorbeeldsel, afbeeldsel
Dawber=Bestryker; vleyer
Element=Hoofstoffe, beginsel
Topics: betrayal|fate/destiny|deceit
If the devil have him not in fee-simple, with fine and recovery, he will never, I think, in the way of waste, attempt us again
PLAY: The Merry Wives of Windsor
ACT/SCENE:
SPEAKER: Mistress Page
CONTEXT:
MISTRESS PAGE
I’ll have the cudgel hallowed and hung o’er the altar; it hath done meritorious service.
MISTRESS FORD
What think you? may we, with the warrant of womanhood and the witness of a good conscience, pursue him with any further revenge?
MISTRESS PAGE
The spirit of wantonness is, sure, scared out of him: if the devil have him not in fee-simple, with fine and recovery, he will never, I think, in the way of waste, attempt us again.
DUTCH:
De geest van dartelheid is denkelijk wel bij hem uitgebannen; als hij zich niet met lijf en ziel, zonder kans
op boete en rouwkoop, aan den duivel verkocht heeft,
zal hij nimmermeer, denk ik, ons trachten te verleiden.
MORE:
Fine and recovery. In old English law, “fine” meant “an amicable composition or agreement of astute, either actual or fictitious, by leave of the King or his justices”. Fines and Recoveries were used to circumvent the Statute of Entail, which tended to restrict the free transfer of land, by “suffering a feigned recovery” or “levying a fine”.
Hallowed=Consecrated
Warrant=Justification; authorisation
Waste=Damage
Compleat:
Hallowed=Geheyligd, gewyd
Warrant=Volmagtiging
I’ll warrant you=Ik verzeker ‘t u, ik staa ‘er borg voor, ik sta er voor in
To waste=Verwoesten, verquisten, verteeren, vernielen, doorbrengen
Topics: law/legal|remedy|conscience
Come, to the forge with it then; shape it: I would not have things cool
PLAY: The Merry Wives of Windsor
ACT/SCENE:
SPEAKER: Mistress Page
CONTEXT:
MISTRESS PAGE
Yes, by all means; if it be but to scrape the
figures out of your husband’s brains. If they can
find in their hearts the poor unvirtuous fat knight
shall be any further afflicted, we two will still be
the ministers.
MISTRESS FORD
I’ll warrant they’ll have him publicly shamed: and
methinks there would be no period to the jest,
should he not be publicly shamed.
MISTRESS PAGE
Come, to the forge with it then; shape it: I would
not have things cool.
DUTCH:
Kom, dan naar de smidse, en aan ‘t smeden; ik wil
het ijzer niet koud laten worden.
MORE:
Scrape=Erase
Figures=Suspicions
Period=End
Compleat:
To scrape=Schaapen, schrabben
Figure=Voorbeeldsel, afbeeldsel
To bring to a period=Tot een eyde brengen
Topics: suspicion|envy|trust|plans/intentions|haste
Be not as extreme in submission as in offence
PLAY: The Merry Wives of Windsor
ACT/SCENE:
SPEAKER: Page
CONTEXT:
PAGE
And did he send you both these letters at an instant?
MISTRESS PAGE
Within a quarter of an hour.
FORD
Pardon me, wife. Henceforth do what thou wilt;
I rather will suspect the sun with cold
Than thee with wantonness: now doth thy honour stand
In him that was of late an heretic,
As firm as faith.
PAGE
‘Tis well, ’tis well; no more:
Be not as extreme in submission
As in offence.
But let our plot go forward: let our wives
Yet once again, to make us public sport,
Appoint a meeting with this old fat fellow,
Where we may take him and disgrace him for it.
FORD
There is no better way than that they spoke of.
DUTCH:
Goed, goed, niet meer;
Want de onderwerping zij niet overdreven,
Gelijk voorheen de krenking.
MORE:
At an instant=Simultaneously
With=Of being
Submission=|Confession, seeking forgiveness
Use=Treat
Compleat:
An instant=Een oogenblik
At this very instant=Op dit eygenste oogenblik
Submission=Nederigheid, onderwerping, overgegeevendheid, onderdaanigheid
To use (treat) one well or ill=Iemand wel of kwaalyk behandelen