QUOTES FROM THE BARD

PLAY: As You Like It
ACT/SCENE: 1.1
SPEAKER: Orlando
CONTEXT:
ORLANDO
As I remember, Adam, it was upon this fashion
bequeathed me by will but poor a thousand crowns, and,
as thou sayest, charged my brother on his blessing to
breed me well. And there begins my sadness. My brother
Jacques he keeps at school, and report speaks goldenly
of his profit. For my part, he keeps me rustically at
home or, to speak more properly, stays me here at home
unkept; for call you that “keeping” for a gentleman of
my birth that differs not from the stalling of an ox?
His horses are bred better, for, besides that they are
fair with their feeding, they are taught their manage
and, to that end, riders dearly hired. But I, his
brother, gain nothing under him but growth, for the
which his animals on his dunghills are as much bound to
him as I. Besides this nothing that he so plentifully
gives me, the something that nature gave me his
countenance seems to take from me. He lets me feed with
his hinds, bars me the place of a brother, and, as much
as in him lies, mines my gentility with my education.
This is it, Adam, that grieves me, and the spirit of my
father, which I think is within me, begins to mutiny
against this servitude. I will no longer endure it,
though yet I know no wise remedy how to avoid it

DUTCH:
Mijn broeder Jacob heeft hij op school gedaan en de berichten over zijn vorderingen zijn schitterend;

MORE:
But poor=A measly, only (a miserable)
On his blessing=In order to obtain his blessing
Breed=Educate, bring up
School=University
Profit=Progress, advancement
Stays=Detains
Unkept=Unkempt
Fair with=Blossom because of
Manège=Paces
Dearly=Expensively
Bound=Indebted
Countenance=Behaviour, attitude
Hinds=Farmhands
Mines=Undermines
Compleat:
But=Maar, of, dan, behalven, maar alleen
Poor=(mean, pitiful) Arm, elendig
Blessing=Zegening
Breed=Teelen, werpen; voortbrengen; veroorzaaken; opvoeden
Profit=Voordeel, gewin, nut, profyt, winst, baat
To stay=Wagten
Dear=Duurgekocht
Bound=Gebonden, verbonden, verpligt, dienstbaar
Out of countenance=Bedeesd, verbaasd, ontsteld, ontroerd

Topics: learning/education, order/society, status, equality, legacy