CJTranslations - innocence

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Alas, sir, how fell you besides your five wits?

PLAY: Twelfth Night
ACT/SCENE: 4.2
SPEAKER: Malvolio
CONTEXT:
FOOL
Master Malvolio?
MALVOLIO
Ay, good fool.
FOOL
Alas, sir, how fell you besides your five wits?
MALVOLIO
Fool, there was never a man so notoriously abused: I
am as well in my wits, Fool, as thou art.
FOOL
But as well? Then you are mad indeed, if you be no
better in your wits than a fool.
MALVOLIO
They have here propertied me, keep me in darkness, send
ministers to me —asses!—and do all they can to face me
out of my wits.
FOOL
Advise you what you say. The minister is here.
Malvolio, Malvolio, thy wits the
heavens restore! Endeavor thyself to sleep, and leave
thy vain bibble-babble.

DUTCH:
Helaas, heerschap, hoe zijt ge toch uw verstand zoo
kwijt geraakt?

MORE:
Fall besides=Out of (lose your wits)
Five wits=Shakespeare distinguishes between the five senses (sight, smell, hearing, taste, touch) and the five wits (see Sonnet 141). The five wits are said to be common wit (or common sense), imagination, fancy, estimation and memory.
Propertied=Treated, owned, ordered
Face (out of)=Bully
Out of my wits=Witless
Advise you=Take care
Compleat:
He is beside himself=Hy is buiten verstand
Property=Werktuig
The nature of his employment makes him a property to all the measures of the court=Den aart van zyne bediening maakt hem tot een werktuig in alle de maatregelen van ‘t Hof
To face out or down=(or to outface)=Iemand iets in het gezigt staande houden, of zo lang aanzien dat hy zyn oogen moet neerslaan
He makes me out of my wits=Hy maakt my dol

Topics: madness, punishment, abuse, innocence

Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck, Till thou applaud the deed.

PLAY: Macbeth
ACT/SCENE: 3.2
SPEAKER: Macbeth
CONTEXT:
Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck,
Till thou applaud the deed. Come, seeling night,
Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day
And with thy bloody and invisible hand
Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond
Which keeps me pale. Light thickens, and the crow
Makes wing to th’ rooky wood.

DUTCH:

MORE:
Schmidt:
Applaud= To praise, approve
to Seel=to blind (originally a term of falconry)
Bond= Bond of life
Compleat:
To seel a hawk=Eenen valk een kap voor de oogen doen

Topics: innocence, offence

Endeavor thyself to sleep, and leave thy vain bibble-babble

PLAY: Twelfth Night
ACT/SCENE: 4.2
SPEAKER: Fool
CONTEXT:
FOOL
Master Malvolio?
MALVOLIO
Ay, good fool.
FOOL
Alas, sir, how fell you besides your five wits?
MALVOLIO
Fool, there was never a man so notoriously abused: I
am as well in my wits, Fool, as thou art.
FOOL
But as well? Then you are mad indeed, if you be no
better in your wits than a fool.
MALVOLIO
They have here propertied me, keep me in darkness, send
ministers to me —asses!—and do all they can to face me
out of my wits.
FOOL
Advise you what you say. The minister is here. [in the
voice of Sir Topas] Malvolio, Malvolio, thy wits the
heavens restore! Endeavor thyself to sleep, and leave
thy vain bibble-babble.

DUTCH:
Tracht eens te slapen en staak uw ijdel geklap!

MORE:
Fall besides=Out of (lose your wits)
Five wits=Shakespeare distinguishes between the five senses (sight, smell, hearing, taste, touch) and the five wits (see Sonnet 141). The five wits are said to be common wit (or common sense), imagination, fancy, estimation and memory.
Propertied=Treated, owned, ordered
Face (out of)=Bully
Out of my wits=Witless
Advise you=Take care
Compleat:
He is beside himself=Hy is buiten verstand
Property=Werktuig
The nature of his employment makes him a property to all the measures of the court=Den aart van zyne bediening maakt hem tot een werktuig in alle de maatregelen van ‘t Hof
To face out or down=(or to outface)=Iemand iets in het gezigt staande houden, of zo lang aanzien dat hy zyn oogen moet neerslaan
He makes me out of my wits=Hy maakt my dol

Topics: madness, punishment, abuse, innocence

For where an unclean mind carries virtuous qualities, there commendations go with pity

PLAY: All’s Well that Ends Well
ACT/SCENE: 1.1
SPEAKER: Countess
CONTEXT:
LAFEW
I would it were not notorious. Was this gentlewoman
the daughter of Gerard de Narbon?
COUNTESS
His sole child, my lord, and bequeathed to my
overlooking. I have those hopes of her good that
her education promises; her dispositions she
inherits, which makes fair gifts fairer; for where
an unclean mind carries virtuous qualities, there
commendations go with pity; they are virtues and
traitors too; in her they are the better for their
simpleness; she derives her honesty and achieves her
goodness.
LAFEW
Your commendations, madam, get from her tears.
COUNTESS
‘Tis the best brine a maiden can season her praise
in. The remembrance of her father never approaches
her heart but the tyranny of her sorrows takes all
livelihood from her cheek. No more of this, Helen;
go to, no more; lest it be rather thought you affect
a sorrow than have it.

DUTCH:
Ik heb alle verwachting van het goede, dat hare opvoeding belooft; de natuur, die zij geërfd heeft, maakt de schoone gaven, die opvoeding schenkt, nog schooner;

MORE:
Proverb: Blood is inherited but virtue is achieved

Overlooking=Guardianship
Fated=Fateful (see also King Lear “The plagues that hang fated over men’s faults”, 3.2)
Go with pity=Accompanied by regret
Simpleness=Plainness (being unmixed), unrefined nativeness, innocence
Unclean=(in a moral sense) Impure
Derive=Inherit
Compleat:
Disposition (or Inclination)=Genegenheid, Lust
Disposition of mind=Gesteltenis van gemoed
Simple=Onbeschadigend, eenvoudig
Fated=Door ‘t noodlot beschooren

Topics: nature, learning/education, virtue, innocence, fate/destiny, proverbs and idioms

Heaven is above all yet; there sits a judge That no king can corrupt

PLAY: King Henry VIII
ACT/SCENE: 3.1
SPEAKER: Queen Katherine
CONTEXT:
CAMPEIUS
Put your main cause into the King’s protection.
He’s loving and most gracious. ’Twill be much
Both for your honour better and your cause,
For if the trial of the law o’ertake you,
You’ll part away disgraced.
WOLSEY
He tells you rightly.
QUEEN KATHERINE
You tell me what you wish for both: my ruin.
Is this your Christian counsel? Out upon you!
Heaven is above all yet; there sits a judge
That no king can corrupt.
CAMPEIUS
Your rage mistakes us.
QUEEN KATHARINE
The more shame for ye: holy men I thought ye,
Upon my soul, two reverend cardinal virtues;
But cardinal sins and hollow hearts I fear ye:
Mend ’em, for shame, my lords. Is this your comfort?
The cordial that ye bring a wretched lady,
A woman lost among ye, laugh’d at, scorn’d?
I will not wish ye half my miseries;
I have more charity: but say, I warn’d ye;
Take heed, for heaven’s sake, take heed, lest at once
The burthen of my sorrows fall upon ye

DUTCH:
Gij beiden, wat gij wenscht, mijn ondergang.
Is dit uw raad als christen? foei! Nog is er
Een hemel, waar een rechter, door geen koning
Ooit om te koopen, troont!

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Part away=Leave
Rage mistakes=Anger causes you to misjudge
Cardinal virtues=Alllusion to the four ‘cardinal’ virtues (prudence, justice, courage and temperance)
Cardinal sins=Allusion to the seven ‘cardinal’ sins (envy, gluttony, greed/avarice, lust, pride, sloth, and wrath)
Cordial=Tonic
Compleat:
Rage=Raazerny, woede, dulheyd
Mistake=Misvatting
Cardinal virtues=De vier hoofd-deugden, als Wysheyd, Maatigheyd, Gerechtigheyd en Dapperheyd
Cordial=Hardsterking

Topics: honour, dispute, anger, innocence, evidence

His givings-out were of an infinite distance
From his true-meant design

PLAY: Measure for Measure
ACT/SCENE: 1.4
SPEAKER: Lucio
CONTEXT:
The duke is very strangely gone from hence;
Bore many gentlemen, myself being one,
In hand and hope of action: but we do learn
By those that know the very nerves of state,
His givings-out were of an infinite distance
From his true-meant design. Upon his place,
And with full line of his authority,
Governs Lord Angelo; a man whose blood
Is very snow-broth; one who never feels
The wanton stings and motions of the sense,
But doth rebate and blunt his natural edge
With profits of the mind, study and fast.

DUTCH:
Dat wat hij voorgaf hemelsbreed verschilt
Van wat hij inderdaad bedoelt.

MORE:
Schmidt:
Givings-out=Utterances, assertions
True-meant design=Intention
Sting=Impulse, incitement.
Rebate=Abate
Profit of the mind=Proficiency, improvement

Topics: perception, justification, innocence, integrity, intellect, learning/education

I do beseech you, gracious madam, to unthink your speaking and to say no more.

PLAY: King Henry VIII
ACT/SCENE: 2.4
SPEAKER: Cardinal Wolsey
CONTEXT:
CARDINAL WOLSEY
I do profess
You speak not like yourself; who ever yet
Have stood to charity, and display’d the effects
Of disposition gentle, and of wisdom
O’ertopping woman’s power. Madam, you do me wrong:
I have no spleen against you; nor injustice
For you or any: how far I have proceeded,
Or how far further shall, is warranted
By a commission from the consistory,
Yea, the whole consistory of Rome. You charge me
That I have blown this coal: I do deny it:
The king is present: if it be known to him
That I gainsay my deed, how may he wound,
And worthily, my falsehood! yea, as much
As you have done my truth. If he know
That I am free of your report, he knows
I am not of your wrong. Therefore in him
It lies to cure me: and the cure is, to
Remove these thoughts from you: the which before
His highness shall speak in, I do beseech
You, gracious madam, to unthink your speaking
And to say so no more.

DUTCH:
Hooge vrouwe,
Ik smeek u, dat gij, eer zijne hoogheid spreekt
Wat gij gezegd hebt, ongedacht wilt maken,
En nimmermeer zoo spreekt.

MORE:
Ever yet=Always until now
O’ertop=Exceed, surpass
Spleen=Ill will, malice
Gainsay=Contradict, deny
Consistory=Council chamber
Blown this coal=Fanned the fire
Free of your report=Innocent of your accusations
Unthink=Take back, retract
Compleat:
To overtop=Te boven gaan, overschryden
Spleen=Een wrok
To have a spleen against one=Eenen wrok tegen iemand hebben
To gainsay=Tegenspreeken, Wederspreeken.
To gainsay truth=De waarheid wederspreeken of bestryden
Consistory=De Kerkenraad, Pauzelyke raad, Kardinaals vergadering

Topics: truth, punishment, innocence

I should have ta’en some pains to bring together yourself and your accusers; and to have heard you, without endurance, further.

PLAY: King Henry VIII
ACT/SCENE: 5.1
SPEAKER: King Henry VIII
CONTEXT:
CRANMER
I humbly thank your highness;
And am right glad to catch this good occasion
Most throughly to be winnow’d, where my chaff
And corn shall fly asunder: for, I kno§w,
There’s none stands under more calumnious tongues
Than I myself, poor man.
KING HENRY VIII
Stand up, good Canterbury:
Thy truth and thy integrity is rooted
In us, thy friend: give me thy hand, stand up:
Prithee, let’s walk. Now, by my holidam.
What manner of man are you? My lord, I look’d
You would have given me your petition, that
I should have ta’en some pains to bring together
Yourself and your accusers; and to have heard you,
Without endurance, further.

DUTCH:
Mylord, ik dacht,
Dat gij mij zoudt verzoeken, een’ge moeite
Te nemen, uw beschuldigers terstond
Te ontbieden en u, zonder uitstel, verder
Te hooren.

MORE:
Winnow=Process of sorting wheat from chaff, i.e. in the wind (cleared)
Stands under=Suffers
Calumnious=Slanderous
Holidame=Holy dame (also Holydame, halidom)
Looked=Expected
Petition=Request
Endurance=Hardship
Compleat:
To winnow=Wannen, ziften
Calumnious=Faamroovend, lasterlyk
Petition=Verzoek, smeekschrift
To endure=Verdraagen, harden, duuren

Topics: innocence, evidence, claim, dispute

If any man doubt that, let him put me to my purgation

PLAY: As You Like It
ACT/SCENE: 5.4
SPEAKER: Touchstone
CONTEXT:
JAQUES
Good my lord, bid him welcome. This is the
motley-minded gentleman that I have so often met in the
forest. He hath been a courtier, he swears.
TOUCHSTONE
If any man doubt that, let him put me to my purgation.
I have trod a measure. I have flattered a lady. I have
been politic with my friend, smooth with mine enemy. I
have undone three tailors. I have had four quarrels, and
like to have fought one.
JAQUES
And how was that ta’en up?
TOUCHSTONE
Faith, we met and found the quarrel was upon the
seventh cause.
JAQUES
How “seventh cause?”—Good my lord, like this fellow.

DUTCH:
Als iemand dit in twijfel trekt, laat hem een gerechtelijken
zuiveringseed van mij vergen

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Motley-minded=As confused as the jester’s costume
Purgation=Clearing from imputation of guilt, exculpation. Used in theology (Purgatory and declaration of innocence oath) and as a legal term of proving of innocence
Trod a measure=Taken part in a dance
Politic=Diplomatic
Undone=Ruined, bankrupted
Quarrels=Serious disputes
Like=Came near to
Compleat:
Motley=Een grove gemengelde
Purgation (the clearing one’s self of a crime)=Zuivering van een misdaad
Measure (music)=Zang-maat. To beat the measure=De maat slaan
Politick (or cunning)=Slim, schrander, doorsleepen
Undone=Ontdaan, losgemaakt

Topics: order/society, status, innocence, dispute

Right glad to catch this good occasion most throughly to be winnowed, where my chaff and corn shall fly asunder.

DUTCH:
En gaarne aanvaard ik, wat de tijd mij biedt,
Dat door een wan mijn kaf en koren zuiver
Gescheiden worden.

Topics: innocence, evidence, claim, dispute

Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleeve of care,

PLAY: Macbeth
ACT/SCENE: 2.2
SPEAKER: Macbeth
CONTEXT:
Methought I heard a voice cry, ‘Sleep no more!
Macbeth does murder sleep: the innocent sleep,
Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleeve of care,
The death of each day’s life, sore labor’s bath,
Balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course,
Chief nourisher in life’s feast.

DUTCH:
Den slaap, die ‘t warnet van de zorg ontrafelt

MORE:
CITED IN US LAW: To help to define “murder”. Wright et al v United States, 108 F. 805 (5th Cir. 1901). The same court also turned to Shakespeare to help to define “Conspire”.

Topics: cited in law, offence, innocence, conscience

Some innocents ’scape not the thunderbolt

PLAY: Antony and Cleopatra
ACT/SCENE: 2.5
SPEAKER: Charmian
CONTEXT:
CHARMIAN
Good madam, keep yourself within yourself.
The man is innocent.
CLEOPATRA
Some innocents ’scape not the thunderbolt.
Melt Egypt into Nile, and kindly creatures
Turn all to serpents. Call the slave again.
Though I am mad, I will not bite him. Call!
CHARMIAN
He is afeard to come.
CLEOPATRA
I will not hurt him.
These hands do lack nobility that they strike
A meaner than myself, since I myself
Have given myself the cause.
Come hither, sir.
Though it be honest, it is never good
To bring bad news. Give to a gracious message
An host of tongues, but let ill tidings tell
Themselves when they be felt

DUTCH:
De bliksem treft wel vaak een schuld’loos kind!

MORE:
Keep yourself within yourself=Restrain yourself
Kindly=Good-natured
Meaner=Of lower rank
Compleat:
Kindly=Op een vrindlyke wyze; vrindelyk
The meaner sort of people=Het gemeene slach van volk

Topics: innocence

The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good.

PLAY: Measure for Measure
ACT/SCENE: 3.1
SPEAKER: Duke
CONTEXT:
The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good:
the goodness that is cheap in beauty makes beauty
brief in goodness; but grace, being the soul of
your complexion, shall keep the body of it ever fair.

DUTCH:
De hand, die u schoon deed zijn, heeft u ook goed
doen zijn.

MORE:
Schmidt:
Grace=Virtue
Soul=Denoting the chief part and quintessence of a thing
(Compleat)
Grace=Genade, gunst, bevalligheyd, fraajigheyd, aardige zwier
Soul=Ziel, leven geevende kragt, leevensgeesten

Topics: good and bad, virtue, honesty, innocence

What judgment shall I dread, doing no wrong?

PLAY: The Merchant of Venice
ACT/SCENE: 4.1
SPEAKER: Shylock
CONTEXT:
DUKE
How shalt thou hope for mercy, rendering none?
SHYLOCK
What judgment shall I dread, doing no wrong?
You have among you many a purchased slave,
Which—like your asses and your dogs and mules—
You use in abject and in slavish parts
Because you bought them. Shall I say to you,
“Let them be free! Marry them to your heirs!
Why sweat they under burdens? Let their beds
Be made as soft as yours and let their palates
Be seasoned with such viands”? You will answer,
“The slaves are ours.” So do I answer you.
The pound of flesh which I demand of him
Is dearly bought. ‘Tis mine and I will have it.
If you deny me, fie upon your law—
There is no force in the decrees of Venice.

DUTCH:
Doge.
Hoopt ge op gena, gij die er geen bewijst?
Shylock.
Wat vonnis zou ik duchten ? ‘k Doe geen onrecht.

MORE:
CITED IN US LAW:
By 1993, “pound of flesh” had been used 120 times in courts without reference to Shakespeare. (See William Domnarski, Shakespeare in the Law)
Gates v. United States 33 Fed. Cl. 9 , 13 (1995);
Leasing Service Corporation v. Justice, 673 F.2d 70, 71 (2d Cir. 198l)(Kaufman,J.);
Eldridge v. Burns, 76 Cal. App.3d 396, 432, 142 Cal. Rptr. 845,868 (1978);
Jones v. Jones, 189 Mise. 186, 70 N.Y.S.2d lll, 112 (N.Y. C1v. Ct.1947).

Fie=Exclamation of contempt or dislike
Force=validity
Viands=Dressed meat, food
Compleat:
Fie (or fy)=Foei
Fy upon it! Fy for shame!=Foei ‘t is een schande!

Topics: emotion and mood, misquoted

Your rage mistakes us.

DUTCH:
Gij beiden, wat gij wenscht, mijn ondergang.
Is dit uw raad als christen? foei! Nog is er
Een hemel, waar een rechter, door geen koning
Ooit om te koopen, troont!

Topics: honour, dispute, anger, innocence, evidence