QUOTES FROM THE BARD

PLAY: All’s Well that Ends Well
ACT/SCENE: 5.3
SPEAKER: King
CONTEXT:
LAFEW
Mine eyes smell onions; I shall weep anon:
Good Tom Drum, lend me a handkerchief: so,
I thank thee: wait on me home, I’ll make sport with thee:
Let thy courtesies alone, they are scurvy ones.
KING
Let us from point to point this story know,
To make the even truth in pleasure flow.
If thou be’st yet a fresh uncropped flower,
Choose thou thy husband, and I’ll pay thy dower;
For I can guess that by thy honest aid
Thou keep’st a wife herself, thyself a maid.
Of that and all the progress, more or less,
Resolvedly more leisure shall express:
All yet seems well; and if it end so meet,
The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet.

DUTCH:
Dit alles zij ons, punt voor punt, verhaald,
Zoodat de waarheid zelf van vreugde straalt.

MORE:
Anon=Soon
Wait on=Accompany
Sport=Fun
Scurvy=Contemptible
Even=Plain
Progress=Events
More or less=Big or small
Resolvedly=Definitely
Compleat:
Anon=Daadelyk, straks, aanstonds
Wait upon=Op wachten, oppassen
Sport=Spel, kortswyl
Scurvy=Kwaad, slecht
Even=Effen
Resolvedly=Opzettelyk, met opzet

Topics: civility, order/society, respect