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QUOTES FROM THE BARD
PLAY: As You Like It
ACT/SCENE: 1.2
SPEAKER: Celia
CONTEXT:
ROSALIND
What shall be our sport, then?
CELIA
Let us sit and mock the good housewife Fortune from her
wheel, that her gifts may henceforth be bestowed equally.
ROSALIND
I would we could do so, for her benefits are mightily
misplaced, and the bountiful blind woman doth most
mistake in her gifts to women.
CELIA
‘Tis true, for those that she makes fair she scarce
makes honest, and those that she makes honest she makes
very ill-favouredly.
ROSALIND
Nay, now thou goest from Fortune’s office to Nature’s.
Fortune reigns in gifts of the world, not in the
lineaments of Nature.
DUTCH:
Laat ons gaan zitten, en die nijvere huisvrouw met dat wiel, Fortuin, door spot er van af jagen, opdat voortaan haar gaven wat onpartijdiger worden uitgedeeld.
MORE:
Wheel=The attribute of Fortune, emblem of mutability
Blind woman=Fortune, the blind goddess
Scarce=Rarely
Misplaced=Unfairly distributed
Honest=Virtous
Lineaments=Features
Compleat:
Wheel=Rad (van avontuur)
Scarce (or scarcely)=Naauwlyks
To misplace=Verkeerdelyk plaatsen, een onrechte plaats geeven
Honest=Eerlyk, oprecht, vroom
Lineament=Een trek
Burgersdijk notes:
Die nijvere huisvrouw. Alsof het rad of wiel van Fortuin een spinnewiel was. Zie ook „Antonius en Cleopatra”, IV, 15.
Topics: fate/destiny, life, status, poverty and wealth, equality
ACT/SCENE: 1.2
SPEAKER: Celia
CONTEXT:
ROSALIND
What shall be our sport, then?
CELIA
Let us sit and mock the good housewife Fortune from her
wheel, that her gifts may henceforth be bestowed equally.
ROSALIND
I would we could do so, for her benefits are mightily
misplaced, and the bountiful blind woman doth most
mistake in her gifts to women.
CELIA
‘Tis true, for those that she makes fair she scarce
makes honest, and those that she makes honest she makes
very ill-favouredly.
ROSALIND
Nay, now thou goest from Fortune’s office to Nature’s.
Fortune reigns in gifts of the world, not in the
lineaments of Nature.
DUTCH:
Laat ons gaan zitten, en die nijvere huisvrouw met dat wiel, Fortuin, door spot er van af jagen, opdat voortaan haar gaven wat onpartijdiger worden uitgedeeld.
MORE:
Wheel=The attribute of Fortune, emblem of mutability
Blind woman=Fortune, the blind goddess
Scarce=Rarely
Misplaced=Unfairly distributed
Honest=Virtous
Lineaments=Features
Compleat:
Wheel=Rad (van avontuur)
Scarce (or scarcely)=Naauwlyks
To misplace=Verkeerdelyk plaatsen, een onrechte plaats geeven
Honest=Eerlyk, oprecht, vroom
Lineament=Een trek
Burgersdijk notes:
Die nijvere huisvrouw. Alsof het rad of wiel van Fortuin een spinnewiel was. Zie ook „Antonius en Cleopatra”, IV, 15.
Topics: fate/destiny, life, status, poverty and wealth, equality