QUOTES FROM THE BARD

PLAY: The Merry Wives of Windsor
ACT/SCENE:
SPEAKER: Nim
CONTEXT:
FORD
I will be patient; I will find out this.
NYM
And this is true; I like not the humour
of lying. He hath wronged me in some humours: I
should have borne the humoured letter to her; but I
have a sword and it shall bite upon my necessity.
He loves your wife; there’s the short and the long.
My name is Corporal Nym; I speak and I avouch; ’tis
true: my name is Nym and Falstaff loves your wife.
Adieu. I love not the humour of bread and cheese,
and there’s the humour of it. Adieu.

DUTCH:
Vaarwel; ik mag den kaas- en
broodhumour niet; en dat is de humour er van. Vaarwel.

MORE:
Find out this=Investigate
Short and the long=Long and the short, the whole story. (This wasn’t invented by Shakespeare. The “long and short of it”, which dates back to around 1500, was originally “the short and long of it” (see also Merry Wives of Windsor 2.1; A Midsummer Night’s Dream 4.2; and The Merchant of Venice 2.2.)
Compleat:
To find out=Uytvinden, gewaar worden

Topics: invented or popularised, still in use