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PLAY: Hamlet ACT/SCENE: 4.2 SPEAKER: Hamlet CONTEXT: HAMLET
Ay, sir, that soaks up the king’s countenance, his rewards, his authorities. But such officers do the king best service in the end. He keeps them, like an ape, in the corner of his jaw, first mouthed to be last swallowed. When he needs what you have gleaned, it is but squeezing you and, sponge, you shall be dry again.
ROSENCRANTZ
I understand you not, my lord.
HAMLET
I am glad of it. A knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear. DUTCH: Een schelmsch gezegde slaapt in ‘t stump’rig. /
De oren van een dwaas zijn doof voor scherts. /
In zotte ooren valt een schalksch gezegde in slaap.
MORE: Knavish = sly, villainous Topics: dignity, deceit, proverbs and idioms, status, order/society

PLAY: King Henry IV Part 1
ACT/SCENE: 3.2
SPEAKER: King
CONTEXT:
God pardon thee. Yet let me wonder, Harry,
At thy affections, which do hold a wing
Quite from the flight of all thy ancestors.
Thy place in council thou hast rudely lost,
Which by thy younger brother is supplied,
And art almost an alien to the hearts
Of all the court and princes of my blood.
The hope and expectation of thy time
Is ruined, and the soul of every man
Prophetically doth forethink thy fall.
Had I so lavish of my presence been,
So common-hackneyed in the eyes of men,
So stale and cheap to vulgar company,
Opinion, that did help me to the crown,
Had still kept loyal to possession
And left me in reputeless banishment,
A fellow of no mark nor likelihood.

DUTCH:
Had mij een roemloos balling laten blijven,
Als een, die niets was, niets verwachten liet.

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Schmidt:
Hold a wing quite from=flight contrary to, away from (possibly borrowed from falconry language)
Hope and expectation of thy time=the promise of youth
Forethink= Anticipate
Common-hackneyed, vulgarized
Vulgar company=mixing with common people
Opinion=Public opinion
Reputeless=Obscure, inglorious
Mark=Notice taken, observance, note
Likelihood=Probability, chance
Possession=Opinion had still kept loyal (to the actual occupant/possessor of the crown)

Topics: reputation, punishment, dignity, failure, respect

PLAY: All’s Well that Ends Well
ACT/SCENE: 2.3
SPEAKER: King
CONTEXT:
BERTRAM
But follows it, my lord, to bring me down
Must answer for your raising? I know her well:
She had her breeding at my father’s charge.
A poor physician’s daughter my wife! Disdain
Rather corrupt me ever!
KING
‘Tis only title thou disdain’st in her, the which
I can build up. Strange is it that our bloods,
Of colour, weight, and heat, poured all together,
Would quite confound distinction, yet stand off
In differences so mighty. If she be
All that is virtuous, save what thou dislikest,
A poor physician’s daughter, thou dislikest
Of virtue for the name: but do not so:
From lowest place when virtuous things proceed,
The place is dignified by the doer’s deed:
Where great additions swell’s, and virtue none,
It is a dropsied honour. Good alone
Is good without a name. Vileness is so:
The property by what it is should go,
Not by the title. She is young, wise, fair;
In these to nature she’s immediate heir,
And these breed honour: that is honour’s scorn,
Which challenges itself as honour’s born
And is not like the sire: honours thrive,
When rather from our acts we them derive
Than our foregoers: the mere word’s a slave
Debauched on every tomb, on every grave
A lying trophy, and as oft is dumb
Where dust and damned oblivion is the tomb
Of honoured bones indeed. What should be said?
If thou canst like this creature as a maid,
I can create the rest: virtue and she
Is her own dower; honour and wealth from me.

DUTCH:
Ontspruit een edel doen uit lagen staat,
Die wordt verhoogd, geadeld door de daad;
Wie zwelt van trots, op deugd niet, maar op bloed,
Heeft waterzuchtige’ adel.

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Proverb: There is no difference of bloods in a basin
Proverb: Man honours the place, not the place the man

Additions=Titles
Dignify=To give lustre to, to honour
Swell (swell us or swell is– debated)=Inflate
Dropsied=Diseased (with dropsy)
Dislike=Disapprove, regard with ill-will or disgust
Compleat:
Addition=Bydoening, byvoegsel
Dropsy=Waterzucht
Swell=Swellen, opblaazen; Uitzetten, grootr worden, oploopen; zwellen
Dislike=Mishaagen, misnoegen

Topics: virtue, order/society, status, dignity, status

PLAY: Troilus and Cressida
ACT/SCENE: 1.2
SPEAKER: Alexander
CONTEXT:
ALEXANDER
They say he is a very man per se,
And stands alone.
CRESSIDA
So do all men, unless they are drunk, sick, or have no
legs.
ALEXANDER
This man, lady, hath robbed many beasts of their
particular additions; he is as valiant as the lion,
churlish as the bear, slow as the elephant: a man
into whom nature hath so crowded humours that his
valour is crushed into folly, his folly sauced with
discretion: there is no man hath a virtue that he
hath not a glimpse of, nor any man an attaint but he
carries some stain of it: he is melancholy without
cause, and merry against the hair: he hath the
joints of every thing, but everything so out of joint
that he is a gouty Briareus, many hands and no use,
or purblind Argus, all eyes and no sight.

DUTCH:
Hij is zwaarmoedig zonder
oorzaak, en vroolijk tegen alle reden in.

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Proverb: It goes against the hair

Stands alone=Is unrivalled
Additions=Attributes
Humours=Inclinations, moods
Glimpse=Glimmer
Attaint=Taint, defect
Against the hair=Against the grain
Out of joint=Confused, not as it should be
Purblind=Partially blind
Argus=Deprived of his eyes for falling asleep when on guard
Compleat:
Addition=Bydoening, byvoegsel
The humours=De humeuren van het lichaam; grillen
Humour (dispositon of the mind)=Humeur, of gemoeds gesteldheid
Glimpse=Een Blik, flikkering, schemering
To attaint=Overtuigen van misdaad, schuldig verklaaren, betichten; bevlekken, bederf aanzetten
Attainted=Overtuigd van misdaad, misdaadig verklaard
Purblind=Stikziende

Topics: proverbs and idioms, leadership, skill/talent, dignity

PLAY: Coriolanus
ACT/SCENE: 3.2
SPEAKER: Volumnia
CONTEXT:
VOLUMNIA
You might have been enough the man you are,
With striving less to be so; lesser had been
The thwartings of your dispositions, if
You had not show’d them how ye were disposed
Ere they lack’d power to cross you.
CORIOLANUS
Let them hang.
A PATRICIAN
Ay, and burn too.
MENENIUS
Come, come, you have been too rough, something too rough;
You must return and mend it.
FIRST SENATOR
There’s no remedy;
Unless, by not so doing, our good city
Cleave in the midst, and perish.
VOLUMNIA
Pray, be counsell’d:
I have a heart as little apt as yours,
But yet a brain that leads my use of anger
To better vantage.

DUTCH:
Ik heb een hart, zoo min gedwee als ‘t uwe,
Maar ook een brein, dat, hoe mijn toorn ook zied’,
Zelfs dit ten beste stuurt.

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Thwartings=Demands imposed by
Cross=Oppose
Compleat:
Thwarting=Dwarsdryving, dwarsdryvende
To cross=Tegenstreeven, dwars voor de boeg komen, dwarsboomen, wederestreeven, kruisen

Topics: nature, work, respect, dignity

PLAY: King Henry VI Part 3
ACT/SCENE: 1.4
SPEAKER: York
CONTEXT:
She-wolf of France, but worse than wolves of France,
Whose tongue more poisons than the adder’s tooth!
How ill-beseeming is it in thy sex
To triumph, like an Amazonian trull,
Upon their woes whom fortune captivates!
But that thy face is, visor-like, unchanging,
Made impudent with use of evil deeds,
I would assay, proud queen, to make thee blush.
To tell thee whence thou camest, of whom derived,
Were shame enough to shame thee, wert thou not
shameless.
Thy father bears the type of King of Naples,
Of both the Sicils and Jerusalem,
Yet not so wealthy as an English yeoman.
Hath that poor monarch taught thee to insult?
It needs not, nor it boots thee not, proud queen,
Unless the adage must be verified,
That beggars mounted run their horse to death.

DUTCH:
Maar, fiere koningin, het baat u niets,
Dan dat het spreekwoord waar blijkt: „Als een beed’laar
Te paard ooit komt, hij jaagt zijn rijdier dood.”

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Proverb: Set a beggar on horseback and he will ride a gallop (run his horse out of breath): newfound power will go to their heads

Ill-beseeming=Unbecoming, unattractive
Trull=A drab, lewd woman
Captivate=Subdue
Visor=(Vizor, Vizard): Mask
Impudent=Shameless
Assay=Try
Type=Title
Yeoman=Landowner
Needs not=Is unnecessary
Boots not=Is futile
Adage=Proverb

Compleat:
To beseem=Betaamen, voegen, passen
Trull=Een smots, snol
Captivate=Overmeesteren, gevangen neemen
Vizard=Een momaanzigt, mombakkus, masker
Impudent=Onbeschaamd
to assay=Beproeven, toetsen, onderstaan, keuren
Yeoman=Een welgegoed landman, een ryke boer, een Landjonker
It is to no boot=Het doet geen nut, het is te vergeefs
Adage=Spreekwoord

Topics: proverbs and idioms, appearance, civility, language, dignity

PLAY: Macbeth
ACT/SCENE: 1.4
SPEAKER: Malcolm
CONTEXT:
Nothing in his life
Became him like the leaving it. He died
As one that had been studied in his death
To throw away the dearest thing he owed
As ’twere a careless trifle.

DUTCH:
Niets in heel zijn leven
Deed hij zoo schoon als ‘t gaan ter dood; hij stierf
Als een, die zijnen dood had bestudeerd

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Schmidt:
Careless (passive sense)=Not cared for, indifferent (worthless)

Topics: life, value, dignity

PLAY: Titus Andronicus
ACT/SCENE: 4.2
SPEAKER: Aaron
CONTEXT:
DEMETRIUS
What’s here? A scroll; and written round about?
Let’s see;
‘Integer vitae, scelerisque purus,
Non eget Mauri jaculis, nec arcu.’
CHIRON
O, ’tis a verse in Horace; I know it well:
I read it in the grammar long ago.
AARON
Ay, just; a verse in Horace; right, you have it.
Now, what a thing it is to be an ass!
Here’s no sound jest! the old man hath found their
guilt;
And sends them weapons wrapped about with lines,
That wound, beyond their feeling, to the quick.
But were our witty empress well afoot,
She would applaud Andronicus’ conceit:
But let her rest in her unrest awhile.
And now, young lords, was’t not a happy star
Led us to Rome, strangers, and more than so,
Captives, to be advanced to this height?
It did me good, before the palace gate
To brave the tribune in his brother’s hearing.

DUTCH:
Een vers is ‘t uit Horatius; ik ken het;
Ik las het in mijn spraakkunst, lang geleên.

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Proverb: He touches him to the quick

“The man who is of pure life and free from crime needs not the bows and arrows of the Moor” (Horace)
Grammar=Latin grammar book. This is quoted in William Lily’s grammar, which was popular in Elizabethan schools
Just=Precisely
Sound=Straightforward
Afoot=Up and about
Conceit=Design, plan
Stranger=Foreigner
Brave=Confront, defy
Compleat:
Cut to the quick=Tot aan ‘t leeven snyden
Conceit=Waan, bevatting, opvatting, meening
To brave=Trotsen, braveeren, trotseeren, moedig treden
Sound=Gaaf
Stranger=Vreemdeling

Burgersdijk notes:
Integer vitae enz. Daar de regels uit Horatius (Od. 1. 22. 1.) zeggen, dat de reine en schuldelooze geen Mauretanische pijl en boog, met andere woorden, geen wapenen behoeft, is door de toezending van wapenen uitgedrukt, dat Tamora’s zonen niet rein en schuldeloos zijn. Als de slimme Tamora niet juist wegens hare zwangerschap onwel was, zou zij de schranderheid van den vond toelachen. — Men merke op, dat het adjectivische Manris van Horatius hier in Mauri “van den Moor”, veranderd is.

Topics: proverbs and idioms, still in use, learning/education, intellect, dignity, wisdom

PLAY: King Henry VI Part 3
ACT/SCENE: 1.4
SPEAKER: York
CONTEXT:
Thy father bears the type of King of Naples,
Of both the Sicils and Jerusalem,
Yet not so wealthy as an English yeoman.
Hath that poor monarch taught thee to insult?
It needs not, nor it boots thee not, proud queen,
Unless the adage must be verified,
That beggars mounted run their horse to death.
‘Tis beauty that doth oft make women proud;
But, God he knows, thy share thereof is small:
‘Tis virtue that doth make them most admired;
The contrary doth make thee wonder’d at:
‘Tis government that makes them seem divine;
The want thereof makes thee abominable:
Thou art as opposite to every good
As the Antipodes are unto us,
Or as the south to the septentrion.
O tiger’s heart wrapt in a woman’s hide!
How couldst thou drain the life-blood of the child,
To bid the father wipe his eyes withal,
And yet be seen to bear a woman’s face?
Women are soft, mild, pitiful and flexible;
Thou stern, obdurate, flinty, rough, remorseless.
Bids’t thou me rage? why, now thou hast thy wish:
Wouldst have me weep? why, now thou hast thy will:
For raging wind blows up incessant showers,
And when the rage allays, the rain begins.
These tears are my sweet Rutland’s obsequies:
And every drop cries vengeance for his death,
‘Gainst thee, fel Clifford, and thee, false
Frenchwoman.”

DUTCH:
O tijgerhart, in vrouwehuid gehuld!
Hoe kondt gij ‘t levensbloed des kinds verzaam’len,
Opdat de vader daar zijn tranenvloed
Meê droogde, en ‘t uitzicht hebben van een vrouw?

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CITED IN US LAW:
In the Matter of Sedita v. Kissinger, City Manager of the City of New Rochelle, 66 A.D.2d 357, 359, 413 N.Y.S.2d 25 (1979)(O’Connor, J.).

Proverb: Set a beggar on horseback and he will ride a gallop (run his horse out of breath): newfound power will go to their heads

Type=Title
Yeoman=Landowner
Needs not=Is unnecessary
Boots not=Is futile
Government=Self-control
Obsequies=Funeral rites

Compleat:
Yeoman=Een welgegoed landman, een ryke boer, een Landjonker
It is to no boot=Het doet geen nut, het is te vergeefs
Adage=Spreekwoord
Government=Heersching
Obsequies=Lykplichten, laatste diensten aan den overleedenen

Topics: appearance, status, cited in law, proverbs and idioms, dignity

PLAY: Troilus and Cressida
ACT/SCENE: 1.2
SPEAKER: Cressida
CONTEXT:
ALEXANDER
They say he is a very man per se,
And stands alone.
CRESSIDA
So do all men, unless they are drunk, sick, or have no
legs.
ALEXANDER
This man, lady, hath robbed many beasts of their
particular additions; he is as valiant as the lion,
churlish as the bear, slow as the elephant: a man
into whom nature hath so crowded humours that his
valour is crushed into folly, his folly sauced with
discretion: there is no man hath a virtue that he
hath not a glimpse of, nor any man an attaint but he
carries some stain of it: he is melancholy without
cause, and merry against the hair: he hath the
joints of every thing, but everything so out of joint
that he is a gouty Briareus, many hands and no use,
or purblind Argus, all eyes and no sight.

DUTCH:
Dat doen alle mannen, als zij niet beschonken, ziek
of zonder beenen zijn.

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Proverb: It goes against the hair

Stands alone=Is unrivalled
Additions=Attributes
Humours=Inclinations, moods
Glimpse=Glimmer
Attaint=Taint, defect
Against the hair=Against the grain
Out of joint=Confused, not as it should be
Purblind=Partially blind
Argus=Deprived of his eyes for falling asleep when on guard
Compleat:
Addition=Bydoening, byvoegsel
The humours=De humeuren van het lichaam; grillen
Humour (dispositon of the mind)=Humeur, of gemoeds gesteldheid
Glimpse=Een Blik, flikkering, schemering
To attaint=Overtuigen van misdaad, schuldig verklaaren, betichten; bevlekken, bederf aanzetten
Attainted=Overtuigd van misdaad, misdaadig verklaard
Purblind=Stikziende

Topics: proverbs and idioms, leadership, skill/talent, dignity

PLAY: Troilus and Cressida
ACT/SCENE: 1.2
SPEAKER: Alexander
CONTEXT:
ALEXANDER
They say he is a very man per se,
And stands alone.
CRESSIDA
So do all men, unless they are drunk, sick, or have no
legs.
ALEXANDER
This man, lady, hath robbed many beasts of their
particular additions; he is as valiant as the lion,
churlish as the bear, slow as the elephant: a man
into whom nature hath so crowded humours that his
valour is crushed into folly, his folly sauced with
discretion: there is no man hath a virtue that he
hath not a glimpse of, nor any man an attaint but he
carries some stain of it: he is melancholy without
cause, and merry against the hair: he hath the
joints of every thing, but everything so out of joint
that he is a gouty Briareus, many hands and no use,
or purblind Argus, all eyes and no sight.

DUTCH:
Nu, die man is, zoo zegt men, zonder weêrgâ;
Hij staat alleen.

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Proverb: It goes against the hair

Stands alone=Is unrivalled
Additions=Attributes
Humours=Inclinations, moods
Glimpse=Glimmer
Attaint=Taint, defect
Against the hair=Against the grain
Out of joint=Confused, not as it should be
Purblind=Partially blind
Argus=Deprived of his eyes for falling asleep when on guard
Compleat:
Addition=Bydoening, byvoegsel
The humours=De humeuren van het lichaam; grillen
Humour (dispositon of the mind)=Humeur, of gemoeds gesteldheid
Glimpse=Een Blik, flikkering, schemering
To attaint=Overtuigen van misdaad, schuldig verklaaren, betichten; bevlekken, bederf aanzetten
Attainted=Overtuigd van misdaad, misdaadig verklaard
Purblind=Stikziende

Topics: proverbs and idioms, leadership, skill/talent, dignity

PLAY: Troilus and Cressida
ACT/SCENE: 1.3
SPEAKER: Ulysses
CONTEXT:
ULYSSES
They tax our policy, and call it cowardice,
Count wisdom as no member of the war,
Forestall prescience, and esteem no act
But that of hand: the still and mental parts,
That do contrive how many hands shall strike,
When fitness calls them on, and know by measure
Of their observant toil the enemies’ weight,—
Why, this hath not a finger’s dignity:
They call this bed-work, mappery, closet-war;
So that the ram that batters down the wall,
For the great swing and rudeness of his poise,
They place before his hand that made the engine,
Or those that with the fineness of their souls
By reason guide his execution.

DUTCH:
Zij reek’nen onze omzichtigheid voor lafheid;
Bij hen is wijsheid niet in tel voor de’ oorlog,
Bedachtzaamheid verdacht, en niets in aanzien
Dan ‘t werk der hand.

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Tax=Criticise
Member=Participant
Forestall=Hinder
Fitness=Appropriate chances
Weight=Power
Swing=Impetus
Rudeness=Violence
Poise=Weight
Engine=Machinery
Fineness=Astuteness
Compleat:
To tax=Beschuldigen
Forestall=Voor-inneemen, onderscheppen, verrassen, voor-opkoopen
Fitness=Bequaamheid
Weight (importance, consequence)=Gewigt, belang
Rudeness=Ruuwheyd, onbehouwenheyd, plompheyd
Poise=Weegen, wikken
Engine=Een konstwerk, gereedschap, werktuig; Een list, konstgreep
Fineness=Mooiheyd, mooite, fynte

Topics: preparation, plans/intentions, dignity

PLAY: Richard III
ACT/SCENE: 3.7
SPEAKER: Buckingham
CONTEXT:
BUCKINGHAM
My lord, this argues conscience in your Grace,
But the respects thereof are nice and trivial,
All circumstances well considerèd.
You say that Edward is your brother’s son;
So say we too, but not by Edward’s wife.
For first was he contract to Lady Lucy—
Your mother lives a witness to that vow—
And afterward by substitute betrothed
To Bona, sister to the king of France.
These both put off, a poor petitioner,
A care-crazed mother to a many sons,
A beauty-waning and distressèd widow,
Even in the afternoon of her best days,
Made prize and purchase of his wanton eye,
Seduced the pitch and height of his degree
To base declension and loathed bigamy.
By her in his unlawful bed he got
This Edward, whom our manners term “the Prince.”
More bitterly could I expostulate,
Save that, for reverence to some alive,
I give a sparing limit to my tongue.
Then, good my lord, take to your royal self
This proffered benefit of dignity,
If not to bless us and the land withal,
Yet to draw forth your noble ancestry
From the corruption of abusing times
Unto a lineal, true-derivèd course.

DUTCH:
Mylord, dit toont een nauwgezet gemoed;
Doch uw bezwaren zijn gezocht en nietig,
Wanneer gij alles grondig overweegt.

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Respects=Objections
Nice=Fussy, petty
Purchase=Gain, profit
Pitch=Height
Degree=Status, rank
Declension=Descent
Sparing=Restrained
Draw forth=Rescue
Compleat:
Nice=Keurig, vies
She is very nice in her diet=Z is zeer vies op haar kost
He is a little too nice upon that matter=Hy is wat al te keurig op die zaak
Purchase=Verkrygen
Pitch=Pik
Degree=Een graad, trap
Declension=Buyging of verandering van woorden
Sparing=Spaarzaam, zuynig, karig

Topics: conscience, complaint, dignity, status, respect

PLAY: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
ACT/SCENE: 2.2
SPEAKER: Helena
CONTEXT:
HELENA
Wherefore was I to this keen mockery born?
When at your hands did I deserve this scorn?
Is ’t not enough, is ’t not enough, young man,
That I did never, no, nor never can,
Deserve a sweet look from Demetrius’ eye,
But you must flout my insufficiency?
Good troth, you do me wrong, good sooth, you do,
In such disdainful manner me to woo.
But fare you well. Perforce I must confess
I thought you lord of more true gentleness.
Oh, that a lady of one man refused
Should of another therefore be abused!

DUTCH:
Waarom verdiende ik zulk een hoon van ‘t lot,
Wanneer van u, Lysander, zulk een spot?

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Keen=Bitter, sharp
Mockery=Derision
Flout=Mock
Gentleness=Breeding, gentility
Of another=By another
Compleat:
Keen=Scherp, bits, doordringend
Mockery=Bespotting, spotterny
To flout=Bespotten, beschimpen
Gentility=Edelmanschap

Topics: civility, fate/destiny, dignity

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.

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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

PLAY: Antony and Cleopatra
ACT/SCENE: 2.7
SPEAKER: Menas
CONTEXT:
MENAS
Wilt thou be lord of the whole world? That’s twice.
POMPEY
How should that be?
MENAS
But entertain it,
And, though thou think me poor, I am the man
Will give thee all the world.
POMPEY
Hast thou drunk well?
MENAS
No, Pompey, I have kept me from the cup.
Thou art, if thou dar’st be, the earthly Jove.
Whate’er the ocean pales or sky inclips
Is thine, if thou wilt ha ’t.
POMPEY
Show me which way.
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.

DUTCH:
Nog eens dan, wilt gij heer der wereld zijn?

MORE:
Entertain=Consider
Pales=Encloses
Inclips=Encompasses
Competitors=Partners
Mine honour, it=My honour takes precedence over it
Betrayed=Disclosed
Act=Intention
Compleat:
Entertain=Onthaalen, huysvesten, plaats vergunnen
To pale in=Met paalen afperken, afpaalen. Paled in=Rondom met paalen bezet, afgepaald
To inclose=Insluyten, besluyten, omheynen, rondom afschieten, binnen een schutting betrekken
Competitor=Mededinger, mede-eyscher, medestreever, medevryer, nastander
To betray=Verraaden, beklappen
Act=Daad, bedryf

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

PLAY: Coriolanus
ACT/SCENE: 3.2
SPEAKER: Volumnia
CONTEXT:
VOLUMNIA
You might have been enough the man you are,
With striving less to be so; lesser had been
The thwartings of your dispositions, if
You had not show’d them how ye were disposed
Ere they lack’d power to cross you.
CORIOLANUS
Let them hang.
A PATRICIAN
Ay, and burn too.
MENENIUS
Come, come, you have been too rough, something too rough;
You must return and mend it.
FIRST SENATOR
There’s no remedy;
Unless, by not so doing, our good city
Cleave in the midst, and perish.
VOLUMNIA
Pray, be counsell’d:
I have a heart as little apt as yours,
But yet a brain that leads my use of anger
To better vantage.

DUTCH:
Ik heb een hart, zoo min gedwee als ‘t uwe,
Maar ook een brein, dat, hoe mijn toorn ook zied’,
Zelfs dit ten beste stuurt.

MORE:
Thwartings=Demands imposed by
Cross=Oppose
Compleat:
Thwarting=Dwarsdryving, dwarsdryvende
To cross=Tegenstreeven, dwars voor de boeg komen, dwarsboomen, wederestreeven, kruisen

Topics: nature, work, respect, dignity

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