QUOTES FROM THE BARD

PLAY: Cymbeline
ACT/SCENE: 3.2
SPEAKER: Pisanio
CONTEXT:
PISANIO
How? of adultery? Wherefore write you not
What monster’s her accuser? Leonatus,
O master! what a strange infection
Is fall’n into thy ear! What false Italian,
As poisonous-tongued as handed, hath prevail’d
On thy too ready hearing? Disloyal! No:
She’s punish’d for her truth, and undergoes,
More goddess-like than wife-like, such assaults
As would take in some virtue. O my master!
Thy mind to her is now as low as were
Thy fortunes. How! that I should murder her?
Upon the love and truth and vows which I
Have made to thy command? I, her? her blood?
If it be so to do good service, never
Let me be counted serviceable. How look I,
That I should seem to lack humanity
so much as this fact comes to?
‘Do’t: the letter that I have sent her, by her own command
Shall give thee opportunity.’ O damn’d paper!
Black as the ink that’s on thee! Senseless bauble,
Art thou a feodary for this act, and look’st
So virgin-like without? Lo, here she comes.
I am ignorant in what I am commanded.

DUTCH:
Leonatus!
O, meester! Met wat vreemd vergif werd u
Het oor besmet?

MORE:
Tongued as handed=In words as in deed
Truth=Loyalty
Too ready hearing=Gullibility
Take in=Subdue
To her=Compared to hers
Fact=Offence
Feodary or fedary=Accomplice
I am ignorant in=I will pretend not to know
Compleat:
Fact=Daad, feyt
Feodary=(or feudary and feudatary): Dat noemde men een Amptenaar van een Hof, Court of wards genaamt, die een Register hield van de Leenen des Konings
Ignorant=Onweetend, onkundig, onbewust

Topics: gullibility