R+J fragmenten act IV scenes 2-5

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• Leerjaar 5

R+J fragmenten act IV scene 2-5

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Let's watch the scene. 

You can read along: lines 10-37

Lines 15+16

NURSE: See where she comes from shrift with merry look.

• Look, she’s back from confession looking happier.

CAPULET: How now, my headstrong? Where have you been gadding?

• How are you, my headstrong daughter? Where have you been?

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confession

Biechten:  vooral bekend als een rooms-katholieke praktijk. In de biecht vertel je een priester wat je verkeerd hebt gedaan. Hierna vergeeft de priester in de naam van Christus je zonden. De biecht wordt meestal afgenomen in een biechtstoel, dat is een hokje of kamertje in de kerk.

Lines 17-21

JULIET: Where I have learned me to repent the sin

Of disobedient opposition

To you and your behests, and am enjoined

By holy Lawrence to fall prostrate here

To beg your pardon. [Falls to her knees]

• I have been to a place where I learned to repent for the sin of being disobedient to my father and his commands. 
• I am instructed by holy Friar Lawrence to kneel down and beg your forgiveness. 
  

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Lines 23-24

CAPULET: Send for the county. Go tell him of this.

• Send for the Count. Tell him about this

I’ll have this knot knit up tomorrow morning.

• We’ll move the wedding to tomorrow morning.

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Lines 25-28

JULIET: I met the youthful lord at Lawrence’ cell,

• I met the youthful lord at Lawrence’s cell.

And gave him what becomèd love I might,

Not stepping o’er the bounds of modesty.

•  I treated him with all the love I could give                                         without breaking the proper rules of modesty.

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 You can read along: lines 1-27

Lines 8-10

JULIET: No, madam. We have culled such necessaries

As are behooveful for our state tomorrow.

• No, madam. We’ve selected the things                                            that would be best for me to wear at the ceremony tomorrow.

So please you, let me now be left alone,

And let the Nurse this night sit up with you.

• So, if it’s all right with you, please leave me alone now.                Let the Nurse stay up tonight with you. 

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Lines 11-12

For, I am sure, you have your hands full all

In this so sudden business.

• I’m sure your hands are full getting ready                                         for this sudden marriage 

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Lines 14-18

Farewell. God knows when we shall meet again.

• Goodbye. God only knows when we will meet again.

I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins

That almost freezes up the heat of life.

• I feel a bit of cold fear tingling through my veins;                            it's almost freezing the heat of life. 

I'll call them back again to comfort me.

• I'll call them back into the room again to comfort me.

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Lines 20-23

Come, vial. [Holds out the vial] What if this mixture

do not work at all?

Shall I be married then tomorrow morning?

No, no, this shall forbid it. Lie thou there.

[Lays down a knife]

• No, no, this knife will forbid that from happening. I'll put you down there. 

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vial

flesje/flacon

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 You can read along: lines 55-59

Lines 55-57

O, look! Methinks I see my cousin's ghost

Seeking out Romeo that did spit his body

Upon a rapier's point.

• Oh, look there! I think I see my cousin's ghost                   searching for Romeo, who killed him with a sword,              staking him like a piece of meat upon the dagger's point.
  

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vial

flesje/flacon

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Lines 33-35

FRIAR LAWRENCE: Come, is the bride ready to go to church?

• Come, is the bride ready to go to church?

CAPULET: Ready to go, but never to return.

She’s ready to go, but not to return. 

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Lines 36-

O son! The night before thy wedding day

Hath death lain with thy wife. There she lies,

Flower as she was, deflowered by him.

• [To PARIS] Oh son! On the night before your wedding day,               death has slept with your wife. There she lies,                                     a flower who was deflowered by death.

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deflowered

ontmaagd

Lines 38-40

Death is my son-in-law. Death is my heir.

• Death is my son-in-law. Death is my heir.   

My daughter he hath wedded. I will die,

And leave him all. Life, living, all is Death’s.

•  Death has married my daughter. I will die                                      and leave everything to Death. Life, living—                                        it all is Death’s now.

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Lines 84-88

All things that we ordained festival

Turn from their office to black funeral.

• The things that we prepared for the wedding now will be used instead for the funeral.

Our instruments to melancholy bells,

Our wedding cheer to a sad burial feast.

• Our musical instruments will be exchanged for mourning bells. Our wedding banquet will be a sad burial feast instead.

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Lines 88-90

Our solemn hymns to sullen dirges change,

• Our celebratory hymns will change to sad funeral dirges. 

Our bridal flowers serve for a buried corse,

• Our bridal flowers will cover a buried corpse.

And all things change them to the contrary.

• Everything will be used for the opposite purpose than we expected.

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lines 94+95

Friar: The heavens do lour upon you for some ill.

• The heavens hang over you for some unknown reason. 

Move them no more by crossing their high will.

• Stop fighting heaven’s will, and it will no longer move against you.

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