QUOTES FROM THE BARD

PLAY: Cymbeline
ACT/SCENE: 1.3
SPEAKER: Imogen
CONTEXT:
PISANIO
No, madam; for so long
As he could make me with this eye or ear
Distinguish him from others, he did keep
The deck, with glove, or hat, or handkerchief,
Still waving, as the fits and stirs of ‘s mind
Could best express how slow his soul sail’d on,
How swift his ship.
IMOGEN
Thou shouldst have made him
As little as a crow, or less, ere left
To after-eye him.
PISANIO
Madam, so I did.
IMOGEN
I would have broke mine eye-strings; crack’d them, but
To look upon him, till the diminution
Of space had pointed him sharp as my needle,
Nay, follow’d him, till he had melted from
The smallness of a gnat to air, and then
Have turn’d mine eye and wept. But, good Pisanio,
When shall we hear from him?

DUTCH:
Ik had mij de oogen uit het hoofd gestaard
Om hem te zien, tot de afstand hem zoo scherp
Gelijk mijn naald gespitst had;

MORE:
Keep=Keep to, stay on
As=As if
After-eye=Keep watching
Eye-strings=Eye muscles
Diminution of space=He was so far away (as to almost have disappeared)
Compleat:
Diminution=Vermindering, afneeming, verkleining

Topics: loyalty, love