QUOTES FROM THE BARD

PLAY: Antony and Cleopatra
ACT/SCENE: 1.1
SPEAKER: Antony
CONTEXT:
CLEOPATRA
Perchance? Nay, and most like.
You must not stay here longer. Your dismission
Is come from Caesar. Therefore hear it, Antony.
Where’s Fulvia’s process? Caesar’s, I would say—both?
Call in the messengers. As I am Egypt’s queen,
Thou blushest, Antony, and that blood of thine
Is Caesar’s homager. Else so thy cheek pays shame
When shrill-tongued Fulvia scolds. The messengers!
ANTONY
Let Rome in Tiber melt and the wide arch
Of the ranged empire fall. Here is my space.
Kingdoms are clay. Our dungy earth alike
Feeds beast as man. The nobleness of life
Is to do thus, when such a mutual pair
And such a twain can do ’t, in which I bind,
On pain of punishment, the world to weet
We stand up peerless.

DUTCH:
Een troon is stof; het modd’rig aardrijk voedt
Zoo beest als mensch

MORE:
Perchance=Possibly
Dismission=Dismissal, discharge
Process=Summons
Homager=Vassal
Pays shame=Offers, shows
Arch=Span
Ranged=Ordered
Mutual=Matched
Weet=Know
Peerless=Unequalled
Compleat:
Perchance=By geval
To discharge=Onstlaan, lossen, quytschelden
Process=Rechtsgeding, proces
Homager=Een die manschap aan iemand gedaan heeft
To arch=Gewelfd, verwulfd maaken
To range=In orde schikken, vlyen
Mutual=Onderling, wederzyds
Weet=Weten
Peerless=Zonder weerga, gaadeloos

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