QUOTES FROM THE BARD

PLAY: Richard III
ACT/SCENE: 1.4
SPEAKER: First Murderer
CONTEXT:
FIRST MURDERER
How now? What mean’st thou, that thou help’st me not?
By heavens, the duke shall know how slack you have
been.
SECOND MURDERER
I would he knew that I had saved his brother.
Take thou the fee, and tell him what I say,
For I repent me that the duke is slain.
FIRST MURDERER
So do not I. Go, coward as thou art.
Well, I’ll go hide the body in some hole
Till that the duke give order for his burial.
And when I have my meed, I will away,
For this will out, and then I must not stay.

DUTCH:
Vernam hij eer, dat ik zijn broeder redde!
Neem gij het loon en meld hem, wat ik zeg,
Want mij berouwt het, dat de hertog dood is .

MORE:
Proverb: Murder will out

Slack=Neglectful
Meed=Payment, reward, fee
This will out=Murder will out (proverb)
Compleat:
Slack=Slap, traag
Meed=Belooning, vergelding, verdiensten

Topics: discovery, offence