R+J fragmenten act 3 scene 5

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R+J fragmenten act 3 scene 5

R+J fragmenten act 3 scene 5

lines 1-24

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Modern translation: 

• If we should meet up with them, we’ll end up fighting them. 
• Hot days like today get people all worked up and angry.

Lines 1-5

JULIET:

Wilt thou be gone? It is not yet near day.

• You’re leaving? It’s not yet close to daytime. 

It was the nightingale, and not the lark,

That pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear.

• The sound you just heard was a nightingale, not a lark. 

Nightly she sings on yon pomegranate tree.

• Each night the nightingale sings on that pomegranate tree. 

Believe me, love, it was the nightingale.

• Believe me, my love, it was the nightingale.

The nightingale sings at night. 

The lark (leeuwerik) sings in the morning. 

Modern translation: 

• If we should meet up with them, we’ll end up fighting them. 
• Hot days like today get people all worked up and angry.

R: It was the lark, the herald of the morn, No nightingale. 

• It was the lark, who sings to greet the dawn, not the nightingale. 

Look, love, what envious streaks

Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east.

• My love, look at the streaks illuminating the clouds parting in the east.

Night’s candles are burnt out, and jocund day

Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops.

• Night is over. Day is creeping over the mountain tops.

I must be gone and live, or stay and die.

• I must leave in order to live. If I stay, I’ll die.

Lines 12-16

J: Yon light is not daylight, I know it, I.

• That light isn’t daylight, I know it. 

It is some meteor that the sun exhales

To be to thee this night a torchbearer,

And light thee on thy way to Mantua.

• It’s some meteor sent from the sun to be a torchbearer, in order to light your way to Mantua. 

Therefore stay yet. Thou need’st not to be gone.

• So stay for a bit longer. You don’t have to leave.

Lines 16+17

R: Let me be ta’en. Let me be put to death. I am content, so thou wilt have it so.

• Let me be caught. Let me be put to death. I’ll be happy, if that’s how you want it

Lines 23-25

R: I have more care to stay than will to go.

• I’d rather stay than go. 

Come, death, and welcome! Juliet wills it so.—

• Come on, death! You'd be welcome here! Juliet wills it. 

How is ’t, my soul? Let’s talk. It is not day.

• How are you, my love? Let’s talk. It is not day.

Lines 54-57

J: O God, I have an ill-divining soul.

• Oh God, my soul senses some evil coming!

It seems to me that, standing down there as you are, you look as if you are lying dead in the bottom of a tomb.

• Methinks I see thee now, thou art so low  As one dead in the bottom of a tomb.

Either my eyesight fails, or thou look’st pale.

•  Either my eyesight is failing me, or you look pale.

foreshadowing

a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story.

Lines 69-74

LADY CAPULET

Evermore weeping for your cousin’s death?

• Are you going to weep forever about your cousin’s death? 

What, wilt thou wash him from his grave with tears?

•  Do you think you can wash him out of his grave with tears? 

Lines 75+76

LADY CAPULET

So shall you feel the loss, but not the friend

Which you weep for.

• Weeping like this will make you feel the loss, but won’t help you feel the friend you’ve lost.

Lines 75+76

Juliet

Feeling so the loss,

Cannot choose but ever weep the friend.

• Feeling the loss so strongly, I can’t help but weep for him forever.

Lines 78+79

LADY CAPULET

Well, girl, thou weep’st not so much for his death,

As that the villain lives which slaughtered him.

• Well, girl, you’re weeping not for his death, but rather because the villain who murdered him still lives.

Lines 82-83

J: [Aside] Villain and he be many miles asunder.

• [To herself] He’s far from a villain.

[To LADY CAPULET] God pardon him! I do, with all my heart,

And yet no man like he doth grieve my heart.

• [To LADY CAPULET] May God pardon him! I do, with all my heart. And yet he makes my heart grieve more than any other man.
  

Lines 82-83

J: Ay, madam, from the reach of these my hands.

• Yes, madam, because he lives outside the reach of my hands. 

Would none but I might venge my cousin’s death!

• I wish that I was the only one who could avenge my cousin’s death!

Lines 93+94

J:Indeed, I never shall be satisfied

With Romeo, till I behold him—dead—

Is my poor heart for a kinsman vexed.

• In fact, I’ll never be satisfied                                        with Romeo until I see him...dead                                  is the way my poor heart feels when I think of my poor cousin.

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lines 107-169

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Lines 118-123

J: I wonder at this haste, that I must wed

Ere he, that should be husband, comes to woo.

• I’m confused by this sudden hurry. Why would I marry this would-be husband before he’s even come to court me? 

I pray you, tell my lord and father, madam, I will not marry yet. 

•  I beg you, tell my father, madam, I won’t marry yet. 

And when I do, I swear

It shall be Romeo, whom you know I hate,

Rather than Paris. These are news indeed!

•  And when I do marry, I swear, I’d marry Romeo, whom you know I hate, before I’d marry Paris. Now that would be some news!

Lines 127-128

CAPULET: 

When the sun sets the air doth drizzle dew,

But for the sunset of my brother’s son

It rains downright.

• When the sun sets the air drizzles dew. But when the son of my brother died, the rain came in a downpour. 

Lines 129-130

CAPULET: 

How now? A conduit, girl? What, still in tears,

Evermore showering?

• [To JULIET] What’s with you? Are you a fountain? Still crying? Will you cry forever?

Lines 130-134

C: In one little body

Thou counterfeit’st a bark, a sea, a wind,

• You’re like a ship, the sea, and the winds.

For still thy eyes, which I may call the sea,

Do ebb and flow with tears. 

• Like the sea, your eyes ebb and flow with tears. 

The bark thy body is,

Sailing in this salt flood. 

• Your body is like the ship, sailing in the salt water of your tears.

Lines 134-137

The winds thy sighs,

•  The winds are your sighs, 

Who, raging with thy tears, and they with them,

Without a sudden calm will overset

Thy tempest-tossèd body. 

• which rage with tears and, unless you immediately calm down, will toss your body as if it’s in a storm and sink you.

Lines 146-148

J: Not proud you have, but thankful that you have.

• I’m not proud of what you found, but thankful for your efforts.

Proud can I never be of what I hate,

• I can’t be proud of what I hate.

But thankful even for hate that is meant love.

• But I can be thankful for what I hate, if it was meant with love.

Lines 160-162

C: Hang thee, young baggage! Disobedient wretch!

• You disobedient wretch of a worthless girl! 

I tell thee what: get thee to church o’ Thursday,

Or never after look me in the face.

•  I’ll tell you what: get yourself to church on Thursday or never again look me in the face. 

Lines 164-168

C: Wife, we scarce thought us blest

• Wife, we never thought we had been blessed 

That God had lent us but this only child,

• that God gave us just this one child,

But now I see this one is one too much

• but now I see that this one is one too many. 

And that we have a curse in having her.

• We were cursed when we had her. 

Out on her, hilding!

• She sickens me, the good-for-nothing.

=God let us down to give us only one child. 

And now I see we are cursed in even having her!

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lines 169-244

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Lines 188-190

C: But, an you will not wed, I’ll pardon you.

• Well, if you won’t get married, here’s how I’ll forgive you.

Graze where you will, you shall not house with me.

• Eat wherever you want, except in my house. 

Look to ’t, think on ’t, I do not use to jest.

• Think about that. I’m not joking

Lines 191-193

C: Thursday is near. Lay hand on heart, advise.

•  Thursday is soon. Cover your heart with your hand and listen to my advice.

An you be mine, I’ll give you to my friend.

• Act like my daughter, and I’ll marry you to my friend.

An you be not, hang, beg, starve, die in the streets,

• Don’t, and you can beg, starve, and die in the streets.

Lines 197-202

J: Is there no pity sitting in the clouds

That sees into the bottom of my grief?—

• Is there no God above that pities my grief? 

O sweet my mother, cast me not away!

• Oh, sweet mother, don’t throw me out! 

Delay this marriage for a month, a week.

• Delay this marriage for a month, or just a week.

Or, if you do not, make the bridal bed

In that dim monument where Tybalt lies.

•  Or else make my wedding bed in the family crypt where Tybalt lies.

Lines 214-219

Nurse: Romeo is banishèd, and all the world to nothing

That he dares ne’er come back to challenge you.

• Romeo’s banished. There’s no chance that he would ever come back to challenge you if you get married. 

Or, if he do, it needs must be by stealth.

• And if he does come back, he can only do so by sneaking in.

Then, since the case so stands as now it doth,

I think it best you married with the county.

Oh, he’s a lovely gentleman.

• Since that’s the way things are, I think the best thing for you to do is to marry the count. He’s a lovely gentleman!

Lines 214-219

J: Ancient damnation! O most wicked fiend!

• Damned old lady! Oh, she is the most wicked foe!

Is it more sin to wish me thus forsworn,

• Is it more of a sin to wish me to go back on my vows

Or to dispraise my lord with that same tongue

• or to say terrible things about my husband

Which she hath praised him with above compare

So many thousand times? Go, counselor!

• when she had praised him as a man without compare so many thousand times before? Go!

 

Lines 214-219

J: Thou and my bosom henceforth shall be twain.

• Your heart and mine will be separated from now on.

I'll to the friar, to know his remedy.

•  I'll go to the friar and ask for his help. 

If all else fail, myself have power to die.

• I have the power to take my own life.

 

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