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QUOTES FROM THE BARD
PLAY: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
ACT/SCENE: 3.2
SPEAKER: Helena
CONTEXT:
LYSANDER
Be not afraid. She shall not harm thee, Helena.
DEMETRIUS
No, sir, she shall not, though you take her part.
HELENA
Oh, when she’s angry, she is keen and shrewd!
She was a vixen when she went to school.
And though she be but little, she is fierce.
HERMIA
“Little” again? Nothing but “low” and “little”!
Why will you suffer her to flout me thus?
Let me come to her.
Get you gone, you dwarf,
You minimus of hind’ring knotgrass made,
You bead, you acorn
DUTCH:
O, in haar toorn is zij zoo valsch en fel!
Reeds toen ze school ging, was zij al een feeks,
En ze is een echte draak, zoo min als ze is.
MORE:
Keen=Sharp
Flout=Mock
Compleat:
Keen=Scherp, bits, doordringend
Shrewd=Loos, doortrapt, sneedig, vinnig, fel
To flout=Bespotten, beschimpen
Burgersdijk notes:
Gij peuzel, gij onuitgegroeide kriel.
Het Engelsch heeft: You minimus, of hindering knotgrass made.
Knotgrass is een soort van Polygonum of Duizendknoop, namelijk
het Kreupelgras of Polygonum aviculare; van het afkooksel werd
geloofd, dat het den groei van een mensch of dier tegenhield.
Topics: intellect, anger
ACT/SCENE: 3.2
SPEAKER: Helena
CONTEXT:
LYSANDER
Be not afraid. She shall not harm thee, Helena.
DEMETRIUS
No, sir, she shall not, though you take her part.
HELENA
Oh, when she’s angry, she is keen and shrewd!
She was a vixen when she went to school.
And though she be but little, she is fierce.
HERMIA
“Little” again? Nothing but “low” and “little”!
Why will you suffer her to flout me thus?
Let me come to her.
Get you gone, you dwarf,
You minimus of hind’ring knotgrass made,
You bead, you acorn
DUTCH:
O, in haar toorn is zij zoo valsch en fel!
Reeds toen ze school ging, was zij al een feeks,
En ze is een echte draak, zoo min als ze is.
MORE:
Keen=Sharp
Flout=Mock
Compleat:
Keen=Scherp, bits, doordringend
Shrewd=Loos, doortrapt, sneedig, vinnig, fel
To flout=Bespotten, beschimpen
Burgersdijk notes:
Gij peuzel, gij onuitgegroeide kriel.
Het Engelsch heeft: You minimus, of hindering knotgrass made.
Knotgrass is een soort van Polygonum of Duizendknoop, namelijk
het Kreupelgras of Polygonum aviculare; van het afkooksel werd
geloofd, dat het den groei van een mensch of dier tegenhield.
Topics: intellect, anger