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QUOTES FROM THE BARD
This babble shall not henceforth trouble me
ACT/SCENE: 1.2
SPEAKER: Julia
CONTEXT:
LUCETTA
Nay, now you are too flat
And mar the concord with too harsh a descant:
There wanteth but a mean to fill your song.
JULIA
The mean is drown’d with your unruly bass.
LUCETTA
Indeed, I bid the base for Proteus.
JULIA
This babble shall not henceforth trouble me.
Here is a coil with protestation!
JULIA
Go get you gone, and let the papers lie:
You would be fingering them, to anger me.
DUTCH:
Neen, ‘k laat door al die praatjens mij niet kwellen. —
O foei, een stapel liefdes-eeden!
MORE:
Flat=(1) Downright (2) Low-pitched
Mean=Middle (tenor)
Mar=Spoil
Concord=Harmony
Descant=Accompaniment
Unruly=Untrained
Coil=Fuss
Babble=Prattle
Compleat:
Downright=Recht-uyt, recht-neer
Mean=Het midden, de middemaat
To marr=Bederven, verboetelen, verknoeijen
Concord=Eendragt, eendragtigheid, saamensstemming
Descant=Uytbreyding in een reede
Unruly=Ongeregeld, toomeloos
Coil=Geraas, getier
Babble=Klappen, snappen, snateren, kakelen
Topics: language, civility, unity/collaboration
If you will now unite in your complaints, and force them with a constancy
PLAY: King Henry VIII
ACT/SCENE: 3.2
SPEAKER: Norfolk
CONTEXT:
NORFOLK
If you will now unite in your complaints,
And force them with a constancy, the cardinal
Cannot stand under them: if you omit
The offer of this time, I cannot promise
But that you shall sustain more new disgraces,
With these you bear already.
SURREY
I am joyful
To meet the least occasion that may give me
Remembrance of my father-in-law, the duke,
To be revenged on him.
SUFFOLK
Which of the peers
Have uncontemn’d gone by him, or at least
Strangely neglected? when did he regard
The stamp of nobleness in any person
Out of himself?
DUTCH:
Wanneer gij in uw klachten u vereent,
Ze krachtig volhoudt, kan de kardinaal
Ze niet weerstaan.
MORE:
Unite=Join (your actions)
Force=Urge
Cannot stand=Will give in/bow (under the weight)
Offer of this time=Opportunity
But that=That you won’t
Least occasion=Slightest opportunity
Uncontemned=Not despised
Neglected=Ignored, snubbed
Out of=Other than
Compleat:
Unite=Vereenigen, tot een maaken
Force=Dwingen, geweld aandoen, dryven
Occasion=Gelegenheyd, voorval’ oorzaak
He took occasion=Hy nam oorzaak
Contemned=Veracht, versmaad
Neglected=Verzuymen, verwaarloozen, verachteloozen
Out of=Buyten
Topics: unity/collaboration, opportunity, complaint
What is the body when the head is off?
PLAY: King Henry VI Part 3
ACT/SCENE: 5.1
SPEAKER: King Edward IV
CONTEXT:
KING EDWARD IV
But Warwick’s king is Edward’s prisoner:
And, gallant Warwick, do but answer this:
What is the body when the head is off?
GLOUCESTER
Alas, that Warwick had no more forecast,
But, whiles he thought to steal the single ten,
The king was slily finger’d from the deck!
You left poor Henry at the Bishop’s palace,
And, ten to one, you’ll meet him in the Tower.
DUTCH:
Wat is het lichaam, zoo het hoofd ontbreekt?
MORE:
Forecast=Forethought, anticipated
The single ten=Just the ten card from the deck
Fingered from=Pinched from
Compleat:
Forecast=Vooruitzigt, voorbedachtzaamheid, voorzigtigheid
Light-fingered=Elk een vinger verstrekt hem voor een haak
Topics: authority, strength, relationship, , unity/collaboration
Thy friendship makes us fresh
PLAY: King Henry VI Part 1
ACT/SCENE: 3.3
SPEAKER: Dauphin
CONTEXT:
CHARLES
Welcome, brave duke! thy friendship makes us fresh.
BASTARD OF ORLEANS
And doth beget new courage in our breasts.
ALENCON
Pucelle hath bravely play’d her part in this,
And doth deserve a coronet of gold.
CHARLES
Now let us on, my lords, and join our powers,
And seek how we may prejudice the foe.
DUTCH:
Heil, dapp’re hertog! uw verbond verfrischt ons.
MORE:
Makes us fresh=Revives me
Beget=Produce, create
Join=Unite, combine
Compleat:
Refresh=(recreate) Verquikken, verfrisschen; (renew) vernieuwen, hernieuwen; zich ververschen
Beget=Gewinnen, teelen, voortbrengen, verkrygen
Idleness begets beggary=Luiheid veroorzaakt bedelaary
To join=Saamenvoegen; vereenigen, voegen, vervoegen
Topics: friendship, emotion and mood, loyalty, unity/collaboration
Many things having reference to one consent, may work contrariously.
PLAY: King Henry V
ACT/SCENE: 1.2
SPEAKER: Canterbury
CONTEXT:
Which pillage they with merry march bring home
To the tent royal of their emperor,
Who, busied in his majesty, surveys
The singing masons building roofs of gold,
The civil citizens kneading up the honey,
The poor mechanic porters crowding in
Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate,
The sad-eyed justice with his surly hum
Delivering o’er to executors pale
The lazy yawning drone. I this infer:
That many things, having full reference
To one consent, may work contrariously,
As many arrows loosèd several ways
Come to one mark, as many ways meet in one town,
As many fresh streams meet in one salt sea,
As many lines close in the dial’s center,
So may a thousand actions, once afoot,
End in one purpose and be all well borne
Without defeat.
DUTCH:
Dat vele dingen, die op sathenstemming
Berekend zijn, verschillend werken kunnen;
MORE:
Dial=Sundial
Mechanic, mechanical=Labourer
Sad-eyed=Grave
Contrariously=In opposed directions
Compleat:
Dial=Zonnewyzer
Mechanick=handwerkman
Topics: unity/collaboration, purpose