QUOTES FROM THE BARD

PLAY: Richard II ACT/SCENE: 5.6 SPEAKER: Henry Bolingbroke CONTEXT: HENRY PERCY
The grand conspirator, Abbot of Westminster,
With clog of conscience and sour melancholy
Hath yielded up his body to the grave;
But here is Carlisle living, to abide
Thy kingly doom and sentence of his pride.
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
Carlisle, this is your doom:
Choose out some secret place, some reverend room,
More than thou hast, and with it joy thy life;
So as thou livest in peace, die free from strife:
For though mine enemy thou hast ever been,
High sparks of honour in thee have I seen. DUTCH: Mijn vijand waart gij steeds, doch ik waardeer
In u een man van plicht en moed en eer. MORE:
Clog=Any thing hung upon an animal to hinder motion; encumbrance
Doom=Judgment. (Doom (or ‘dome’) was a statute or law (doombooks were codes of laws); related to the English suffix -dom, originally meaning jurisdiction. Shakespeare is credited for first using doom to mean death and destruction in Sonnet 14.)

Compleat:
Clog=Een blok; belemmering
Doom=Vonnis, oordeel, verwyzing
A heavy doom=een zwaar vonnis Topics: conscience, judgment