QUOTES FROM THE BARD

PLAY: Cymbeline
ACT/SCENE: 4.4
SPEAKER: Guiderius
CONTEXT:
GUIDERIUS
This is, sir, a doubt
In such a time nothing becoming you,
Nor satisfying us.
ARVIRAGUS
It is not likely
That when they hear the Roman horses neigh,
Behold their quarter’d fires, have both their eyes
And ears so cloy’d importantly as now,
That they will waste their time upon our note,
To know from whence we are.
BELARIUS
O, I am known
Of many in the army: many years,
Though Cloten then but young, you see, not wore him
From my remembrance. And, besides, the king
Hath not deserved my service nor your loves;
Who find in my exile the want of breeding,
The certainty of this hard life; aye hopeless
To have the courtesy your cradle promised,
But to be still hot summer’s tanlings and
The shrinking slaves of winter.
GUIDERIUS
Than be so
Better to cease to be. Pray, sir, to the army:
I and my brother are not known; yourself
So out of thought, and thereto so o’ergrown,
Cannot be question’d.

DUTCH:
Zie, dit is een zorg,
Die u in dezen tijd voorwaar niet past,
En ons ook niet bevredigt.

MORE:
Doubt=Apprehension
Quartered files=Military formations
Cloyed importantly=Filled/clogged with important business
Our note=Noticing us
Wore=Erased
Breeding=Upbringing, education
Cradle=Lineage
Tanling=Child tanned by the sun
Compleat:
To quarter=Vierendeelen, wyken, inneemen, huysvesten, legeren, inquartieren
To cloy=Verkroppen, overlaaden
Breeding=Voortteeling, aanfokking, opvoeding

Topics: conflict, reputation