QUOTES FROM THE BARD

PLAY: King Henry VI Part 1 ACT/SCENE: 5.5 SPEAKER: Suffolk CONTEXT: A dower, my lords! disgrace not so your king,
That he should be so abject, base and poor,
To choose for wealth and not for perfect love.
Henry is able to enrich his queen
And not seek a queen to make him rich:
So worthless peasants bargain for their wives,
As market-men for oxen, sheep, or horse.
Marriage is a matter of more worth
Than to be dealt in by attorneyship;
Not whom we will, but whom his grace affects,
Must be companion of his nuptial bed:
And therefore, lords, since he affects her most,
It most of all these reasons bindeth us,
In our opinions she should be preferr’d.
For what is wedlock forced but a hell,
An age of discord and continual strife?
Whereas the contrary bringeth bliss,
And is a pattern of celestial peace. DUTCH: Het huwlijk is een zaak, veel te gewichtig,
Om die door zaakwaarnemers af te doen;
En niet, wie gij, neen, wie de koning wenscht,
Zij de genoote van zijn huwlijksbed. MORE: Affects=Desires
Pattern=Model Topics: marriage