QUOTES FROM THE BARD

PLAY: Richard III
ACT/SCENE: 1.3
SPEAKER: Queen Margaret
CONTEXT:
QUEEN MARGARET
And leave out thee? Stay, dog, for thou shalt hear me.
If heaven have any grievous plague in store
Exceeding those that I can wish upon thee,
O, let them keep it till thy sins be ripe
And then hurl down their indignation
On thee, the troubler of the poor world’s peace.
The worm of conscience still begnaw thy soul.
Thy friends suspect for traitors while thou liv’st,
And take deep traitors for thy dearest friends.
No sleep close up that deadly eye of thine,
Unless it be while some tormenting dream
Affrights thee with a hell of ugly devils.
Thou elvish-marked, abortive, rooting hog,
Thou was sealed in thy nativity
The slave of nature and the son of hell,
Thou slander of they heavy mother’s womb,
Thou loathed issue of they father’s loins,
Thou rag of honour, thou detested—

DUTCH:
Gewetensangst knaag’ als een worm uw ziel!
Verdenk uw vrienden immer van verraad,
Kies aartsverraders tot uw boezemvrienden!

MORE:
Ripe=Concluded, perpetrated
Deadly=Fatal (as in basilisk)
Sealed=Stamped, confirmed
Still=Constantly
Hog=Richards emblem was a boar
Heavy=Sad
Compleat:
Sealed=Gezegeld
Still=Steeds, gestadig, altyd
Hog=Zwyn

Topics: conscience, suspicion