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QUOTES FROM THE BARD
A good swift simile, but something currish
ACT/SCENE: 5.2
SPEAKER: Petruchio
CONTEXT:
PETRUCHIO
She hath prevented me. Here, Signior Tranio,
This bird you aimed at, though you hit her not.—
Therefore a health to all that shot and missed.
TRANIO
Oh, sir, Lucentio slipped me like his greyhound,
Which runs himself and catches for his master.
PETRUCHIO
A good swift simile, but something currish.
TRANIO
‘Tis well, sir, that you hunted for yourself.
‘Tis thought your deer does hold you at a bay.
DUTCH:
TRANIO
O heer, ‘k was voor Lucentio als een windhond,
Die dapper loopt en voor zijn meester vangt.
PETRUCCIO
Een vlugge vergelijking, maar wat hondsch.
MORE:
Prevent=Forestall
Health=A toast to
Slipped=Unleashed
Swift=Quick-witted
Currish=Dog-like; malicious
Hold you at bay=Make a stand agaisnt
Compleat:
To prevent=Voorkomen, eerstkomen; afkeeren; verhoeden
To slip a dog=Een hond los laaten
Currish=Hondsch, kwaadaardig
Burgersdijk notes:
Men meent, uw hinde loopt u wel bek-af. In ‘t Engelsch: ‘t Is thought your deer does hold you at a bay. Een woordspeling met deer, hinde, en dear, dierbare, liefjen.
Topics: rivalry, failure
My cake is dough, but I’ll in among the rest, out of hope of all but my share of the feast
PLAY: The Taming of the Shrew
ACT/SCENE: 5.1
SPEAKER: Gremio
CONTEXT:
VINCENTIO
Fear not, Baptista, we will content you. Go to. But I
will in to be revenged for this villainy..
BAPTISTA
And I, to sound the depth of this knavery.
LUCENTIO
Look not pale, Bianca. Thy father will not frown.
GREMIO
My cake is dough, but I’ll in among the rest,
Out of hope of all but my share of the feast.
DUTCH:
Mijn koek ligt in de asch, maar ik ga mee naar binnen;
Want buiten het maal heb ik niets meer to winnen .
MORE:
Proverb: My cake is dough (cake that isn’t properly baked)
Content=Satisfy
Go to=Don’t worry
Sound=Find out
Compleat:
To content=Voldoen, te vreede stellen, genoegen geeven
Go to=Wel aan, wakker
To sound=Peilen
Topics: proverbs and idioms, satisfaction, revenge, failure
Unknit that threat’ning unkind brow and dart not scornful glances from those eyes
PLAY: The Taming of the Shrew
ACT/SCENE: 5.2
SPEAKER: Katherine
CONTEXT:
KATHERINE
Fie, fie! Unknit that threat’ning unkind brow
And dart not scornful glances from those eyes
To wound thy lord, thy king, thy governor.
It blots thy beauty as frosts do bite the meads,
Confounds thy fame as whirlwinds shake fair buds,
And in no sense is meet or amiable.
A woman moved is like a fountain troubled,
Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty,
And while it is so, none so dry or thirsty
Will deign to sip or touch one drop of it.
Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper,
Thy head, thy sovereign, one that cares for thee,
And for thy maintenance commits his body
To painful labor both by sea and land,
To watch the night in storms, the day in cold,
Whilst thou liest warm at home, secure and safe,
And craves no other tribute at thy hands
But love, fair looks and true obedience—
Too little payment for so great a debt.
Such duty as the subject owes the prince,
Even such a woman oweth to her husband.
And when she is froward, peevish, sullen, sour,
And not obedient to his honest will,
What is she but a foul contending rebel
And graceless traitor to her loving lord? (…)
DUTCH:
O foei, strijk glad dat dreigend, toornig voorhoofd ;
En schiet geen booze blikken nit die oogen
Op uwen heer, uw koning, uw gebieder.
MORE:
Knitted brows=Frown
Unkind=Unnatural
Meads=Meadows
Confounds=Destroys
Meet=Fitting
Fame=Reputation
Moved=Angry
Ill-seeming=Unpleasant looking
Dry=Thirsty
Compleat:
Meet=Dienstig, bequaam, gevoeglyk
To knit the brows=Het voorhoofd in rimpels trekken
Mead=Een heemde, weyde
To confound=Verwarren, verstooren, te schande maaken, verbysteren
Fame=Faam, gerucht, vermaardheid, goede naam
Moved=Bewoogen, verroerd, ontroerd
Topics: emotion and mood, anger, love, ingratitude
Come, come, you froward and unable worms!
PLAY: The Taming of the Shrew
ACT/SCENE: 5.2
SPEAKER: Katherine
CONTEXT:
KATHERINE
(…) And when she is froward, peevish, sullen, sour,
And not obedient to his honest will,
What is she but a foul contending rebel
And graceless traitor to her loving lord?
I am ashamed that women are so simple
To offer war where they should kneel for peace;
Or seek for rule, supremacy and sway
When they are bound to serve, love, and obey.
Why are our bodies soft and weak and smooth,
Unapt to toil and trouble in the world,
But that our soft conditions and our hearts
Should well agree with our external parts?
Come, come, you froward and unable worms!
My mind hath been as big as one of yours,
My heart as great, my reason haply more,
To bandy word for word and frown for frown.
But now I see our lances are but straws,
Our strength as weak, our weakness past compare,
That seeming to be most which we indeed least are.
Then vail your stomachs, for it is no boot,
And place your hands below your husband’s foot:
In token of which duty, if he please,
My hand is ready, may it do him ease.
DUTCH:
Ziet, drieste, zwakke, licht vertreden wormen!
‘k Was eens zoo stug van geest als een van u,
Zoo trotsch van hart; en ‘k had, naar ‘k denk, meer grond,
Om woord met woord en drift met drift te keeren ;
MORE:
Froward=Disobedient, contrary, difficult.
Peevish=Obstinate
Simple=Foolish
Unapt=Not fit
Conditions=Characteristics
Heart=Courage
Big=Arrogant
Vail your stomachs=Reduce your pride
Boot=Profit, use
Do him ease=Please him
Compleat:
Froward=Gemelyk, knorrig, kribbig.
Peevish=Kribbig, gemelyk
Simple=Onbeschadigend, eenvoudig
Haply=Misschien
Condition=Aardt, gesteltenis
Vail=Bedekken
Stomach=Trek (appetite); hart (spirit)
No boot=Te vergeefs, vruchteloos
To much boot=Met veel winst
Topics: insultauthority, independence
Tis a good hearing when children are toward
PLAY: The Taming of the Shrew
ACT/SCENE: 5.2
SPEAKER: Vincentio
CONTEXT:
PETRUCHIO
Why, there’s a wench! Come on and kiss me, Kate.
LUCENTIO
Well, go thy ways, old lad, for thou shalt ha ’t.
VINCENTIO
‘Tis a good hearing when children are toward.
LUCENTIO
But a harsh hearing when women are froward.
PETRUCHIO
Come, Kate, we’ll to bed.
We three are married, but you two are sped.
‘Twas I won the wager, though you hit the white,
And, being a winner, God give you good night!
HORTENSIO
Now, go thy ways, thou hast tamed a curst shrew.
LUCENTIO
‘Tis a wonder, by your leave, she will be tamed so.
DUTCH:
t Is lieflijk te hooren, als kind’ren zoo willig zijn.
MORE:
Go thy ways=Well done
Ha’t=Have it (win the prize)
Good hearing=Good to hear
Toward=Obedient, well-behaved
Sped=Done for
White=Centre of the target
Compleat:
Toward=Genegen
Sped=Geschieden