QUOTES FROM THE BARD

PLAY: Timon of Athens
ACT/SCENE: 1.1
SPEAKER: Poet
CONTEXT:
POET
I have not seen you long: how goes the world?
PAINTER
It wears, sir, as it grows.
POET
Ay, that’s well known:
But what particular rarity? what strange,
Which manifold record not matches? See,
Magic of bounty! all these spirits thy power
Hath conjured to attend. I know the merchant.

DUTCH:
t Is lang sinds ik u zag. ‘Hoe gaat de wereld?

MORE:
Proverb: How goes the world?

Wears as it grows=Diminshing and expanding; Up and down
Bounty=Charity, generosity
Spirits=People
Conjured=Summoned
Compleat:
To wear=Slyten, verslyten
Bounty=Goedertierenheid, mildheid
To conjure=t’Zamenzweeren, bezweeren, bemaanen, nadrukkelyk vermaanen

Topics: proverbs and idioms, invented or popularised, still in use