QUOTES FROM THE BARD

PLAY: The Comedy of Errors ACT/SCENE: 2.2 SPEAKER: Antipholus of Syracuse CONTEXT: DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
The one, to save the money that he spends in tiring; the other, that at dinner they should not drop in his porridge.
ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
You would all this time have proved there is no time for all things.
DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
Marry, and did, sir: namely, e’en no time to recover hair lost by nature.
ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
But your reason was not substantial why there is no time to recover.
DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
Thus I mend it: Time himself is bald and therefore, to the world’s end, will have bald followers.
ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
I knew ’twould be a bald conclusion:
But soft, who wafts us yonder? DUTCH: Gij hadt mij nu al dezen tijd moeten bewijzen, dat er niet voor alles een tijd is. MORE: Proverb: There is a time for everything (or for all things). (1399) Allusion to Ecclesiastes 3:1.

Tiring=Clothing, attire
Porridge=Dinner, lentil or bean soup
Substantial=Proven, established
Bald=Unfounded, unsubstantiated
Conclusion=Decision, judgment
Compleat:
Attiring=Verciering, optooijijng
Porridge=Vleeschnat, bry
Substantial=(real, solid) Wezendlyk, vast
Bald=Kaal
Conclusion=Het besluit Topics: proverbs and idioms, still in use, judgment, reason