QUOTES FROM THE BARD

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