QUOTES FROM THE BARD

PLAY: Antony and Cleopatra ACT/SCENE: 2.7 SPEAKER: Menas CONTEXT: MENAS These three world-sharers, these competitors, Are in thy vessel. Let me cut the cable, And, when we are put off, fall to their throats. All there is thine. POMPEY Ah, this thou shouldst have done And not have spoke on ’t! In me ’tis villainy, In thee ’t had been good service. Thou must know, ’Tis not my profit that does lead mine honour; Mine honour, it. Repent that e’er thy tongue Hath so betrayed thine act. Being done unknown, I should have found it afterwards well done, But must condemn it now. Desist, and drink. MENAS For this, I’ll never follow thy palled fortunes more. Who seeks and will not take when once ’tis offered Shall never find it more.

DUTCH: Wanneer het zoo staat, volg ik Niet langer uw geluksster, zij verbleekt. Wie zoekt, maar wat hij vindt niet grijpen durft, Vindt nooit meer iets.

MORE: Proverb: He that will not when he may, when he would he shall have nay (shall not when he will)

In me=If I were to do it Good service=The action of a good servant Lead=Guide Mine honour, it=My honour takes precedence over it Betrayed=Disclosed Act=Intention Pall=Diminish More=Again Compleat: Service=Dienstbaarheid To lead=Leyden To betray=Verraaden, beklappen Act=Daad, bedryf To pall=Verslaan, verschaalen

Topics: plans/intentions, honesty, advantage/benefit, dignity, integrity, opportunity