QUOTES FROM THE BARD

PLAY: Richard II ACT/SCENE: 2.1 SPEAKER: King Richard II CONTEXT: DUKE OF YORK
(…) If you do wrongfully seize Hereford’s rights,
Call in the letters patent that he hath
By his attorneys-general to sue
His livery, and deny his offer’d homage,
You pluck a thousand dangers on your head,
You lose a thousand well-disposed hearts
And prick my tender patience, to those thoughts
Which honour and allegiance cannot think.
KING RICHARD II
Think what you will, we seize into our hands
His plate, his goods, his money and his lands.
DUKE OF YORK
I’ll not be by the while: my liege, farewell:
What will ensue hereof, there’s none can tell;
But by bad courses may be understood
That their events can never fall out good. DUTCH: Denk, wat gij wilt; toch leggen wij de hand
Op al wat zijn was, geld en goed en land. MORE:
Proverb: Take it as you will (list, please)

Seize=Act of seizure
Gripe=Grasp
Royalties=Rights and prerogatives granted by the King

Compleat:
Seised=Beslagen, aangetast
Seizing=Gryping, aangryping
Seizure=Arrest, op bevel van’t Gerecht
To gripe=Grypen, vatten, nypen
Royalties (royal rights)=De koninglyke rechten, voorrechten Topics: proverbs and idioms, still in use, law/legal, rights