QUOTES FROM THE BARD

PLAY: The Two Gentlemen of Verona
ACT/SCENE: 3.1
SPEAKER: Speed
CONTEXT:
SPEED
‘Item: She is too liberal.’
LANCE
Of her tongue she cannot, for that’s writ down she
is slow of; of her purse she shall not, for that
I’ll keep shut: now, of another thing she may, and
that cannot I help. Well, proceed.
SPEED
‘Item: She hath more hair than wit, and more faults
than hairs, and more wealth than faults.’
LANCE
Stop there; I’ll have her: she was mine, and not
mine, twice or thrice in that last article.
Rehearse that once more.
SPEED
‘Item: She hath more hair than wit,’—
LANCE
More hair than wit? It may be; I’ll prove it. The
cover of the salt hides the salt, and therefore it
is more than the salt; the hair that covers the wit
is more than the wit, for the greater hides the
less. What’s next?

DUTCH:
Item: “Zij heeft meer haar dan verstand, en meer
gebreken dan haren, en meer geld dan gebreken.”

MORE:
Proverb: Bush natural, more hair than wit

Liberal=Unrestrained, uncontrolled
Rehearse=Repeat
Salt=Salt-cellar
Compleat:
Liberal=Mild, milddaadig, goedertieren, gulhartig, openhartig
To rehearse=Verhaalen, vertellen, opzeggen
Salt seller=Een zout-vat

Topics: proverbs and idioms, intellect, flaw/fault, moneyinsult