QUOTES FROM THE BARD

PLAY: The Comedy of Errors ACT/SCENE: 5.1 SPEAKER: Adriana CONTEXT: ADRIANA
May it please your Grace, Antipholus my husband,
Whom I made lord of me and all I had
At your important letters, this ill day
A most outrageous fit of madness took him,
That desp’rately he hurried through the street,
With him his bondman, all as mad as he,
Doing displeasure to the citizens
By rushing in their houses, bearing thence
Rings, jewels, any thing his rage did like.
Once did I get him bound and sent him home
Whilst to take order for the wrongs I went
That here and there his fury had committed.
Anon, I wot not by what strong escape,
He broke from those that had the guard of him,
And with his mad attendant and himself,
Each one with ireful passion, with drawn swords,
Met us again and, madly bent on us,
Chased us away, till, raising of more aid,
We came again to bind them. Then they fled
Into this abbey, whither we pursued them,
And here the Abbess shuts the gates on us
And will not suffer us to fetch him out,
Nor send him forth that we may bear him hence.
Therefore, most gracious duke, with thy command
Let him be brought forth and borne hence for help. DUTCH: Mijn man, dien ik, op aandrang van uw hoogheid,
Tot heer van mij en ‘t mijne maakte, werd
Deez’ boozen dag van razernij bevangen,
Zoodat hij, met zijn even dollen dienaar,
Als een bezeet’ne door de straten liep, MORE: Important letters=Requests
Doing displeasure=Upsetting, offending
Take order for=Deal with, take measures to repair
Wot not=Don’t know
Ireful passion=Anger
Suffer=Permit
Compleat:
Displeasure=Misnoegen, mishaagen, ongenade
To do a displeasure to one=Iemand verdriet aandoen
To order=Schikken, belasten, beveelen, ordineeren
I wot not=Ik weet niet
Irefull=Zeer gram, zeer vertoornt
Passion=Lyding, hartstogt, drift, ingenomenheyd, zydigheyd, zucht
Suffer=Toelaten Topics: madness, authority, offence