Tricky Language Translations

BEATRICE                                                            BEATRICE:
You had musty victual,                                            You had rotten food, and he helped you eat it. He's a
and he hath holp to eat it:                                         very brave eater- he has a strong stomach.
 he is a very valiant trencherman; he 
hath anexcellent stomach.


BENEDICK                                                           BENEDICK:
Well, you are a rare parrot-teacher.                         Listen to you, instructing me like a parrot would.


BEATRICE                                                            BEATRICE:
You always end with a jade's                                  You always slip out of the argument like this. I
trick: I know you of old.                                          know you from before.

 

 

"No Fear Shakespeare: Much Ado About Nothing: Act 1, Scene 1, Page 6." No Fear Shakespeare: Shakespeare's Plays plus a Modern Translation You Can Understand. Web. 08 Mar. 2011. <http://nfs.sparknotes.com/muchado/page_12.html>.