QUOTES FROM THE BARD

PLAY: Antony and Cleopatra
ACT/SCENE: 2.7
SPEAKER: First Servant
CONTEXT:
FIRST SERVANT
Here they’ll be, man. Some o’ their plants are
ill-rooted already. The least wind i’ th’ world will
blow them down.
SECOND SERVANT
Lepidus is high-coloured.
FIRST SERVANT
They have made him drink alms-drink.
SECOND SERVANT
As they pinch one another by the disposition, he cries
out, “No more,” reconciles them to his entreaty and
himself to th’ drink.
FIRST SERVANT
But it raises the greater war between him and his
discretion.

DUTCH:
Zij komen hierheen, kameraad. Sommigen van hen
staan niet meer al te vast op de beenen, het minste
windjen kan hen omblazen.

MORE:
Plants=Feet (punning)
Alms-drink=A drink taken for charity or friendship
Pinch=Irritate
By the disposition=Tailored to their nature
Compleat:
To plant=Beplanten
Alms=Aalmoes
Alms-house=Een almoesseniers-huys
To pinch=Nypen, knypen, knellen, praamen
Disposition=Gesteltenis, ordening, gesteldheyd, neyging

Topics: uncertainty, excess, judgment