This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune (often the surfeits of our own behavior) we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars, as if we were villains on necessity;

fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on.

An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition on the charge of a star! My father compounded with my mother under the Dragon's tail, and my nativity was under Ursa Major, so that it follows I am rough and lecherous.

I should have been that I am, had the maidenliest star in the firmament twinkled on my bastardizing.” O, these eclipses do

portend these divisions

人們最愛用這一種糊涂思想來欺騙自己﹔往往當(dāng)我們因?yàn)樽约盒袨椴簧鞫夥瓴恍业臅r(shí)候，我們就會(huì)把我們的災(zāi)禍歸怨于日月星辰，好像我們做惡人也是命運(yùn)注定，做傻瓜也是出于上天的旨意，做無賴、做盜賊、做叛徒，都是受到天體運(yùn)行的影響，酗酒、造謠、奸淫，都有一顆什么星在那兒主持操縱，我們無論干什么罪惡的行為，全都是因?yàn)橛幸环N超自然的力量在冥冥之中驅(qū)策著我們。明明自己跟人家通奸，卻把他的好色的天性歸咎到一顆星的身上，真是絕妙的推諉!我的父親跟我的母親在巨龍星的尾巴底下交媾，我又是在大熊星底下出世，所以我就是個(gè)粗暴而好色的家伙。嘿!即使當(dāng)我的父親茍合成奸的時(shí)候，有一顆最貞潔的處女星在天空映眼睛。

Good king, that must approve the common saw,

Thou out of heaven’s benediction com’st

To the warm sun.

Approach, thou beacon to this under globe,

That by thy comfortable beams I may

Peruse this letter. Nothing almost sees miracles

But misery.

All weary and o’erwatched,

Take vantage, heavy eyes, not to behold

This shameful lodging.

Fortune, good night. Smile once more;

turn thy wheel.

好王上，你正像俗語說的，拋下天堂的幸福，來受赤日的煎熬了。來吧，你這照耀下土的炬火，讓我借著你的溫柔的光輝，可以讀一讀這封信。只有倒霉的人才會(huì)遇見奇跡;疲倦得很;閉上了吧，沉重的眼睛，免得看見你自己的恥辱。晚安，命運(yùn)，求你轉(zhuǎn)過你的輪子來，再向我們微笑吧。

Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile.

Filths savor but themselves. What have you done?

If that the heavens do not their visible spirits

Send quickly down to tame these vile offenses,

It will come:

Humanity must perforce prey on itself,

Like monsters of the deep.

智慧和仁義在惡人眼中看來都是惡的;下流的人只喜歡下流的事。你們干下了些什么事情?要是上天不立刻降下一些明顯的災(zāi)禍來，懲罰這種萬惡的行為，那么人類快要像深海的怪物一樣自相吞食了。

If thou wilt weep my fortunes, take my eyes.

I know thee well enough; thy name is Gloucester.

Thou must be patient. We came crying hither;

Thou know’st the first time that we smell the air

We wawl and cry.

When we are born, we cry that we are come

To this great stage of fools.

要是你愿意為我的命運(yùn)痛哭，那么把我的眼晴拿了去吧。我知道你是什么人;你的名字是葛羅斯特。你必須忍耐;你知道我們來到這世上，第一次嗅到了空氣，就哇呀哇呀地哭起來。當(dāng)我們生下地來的時(shí)候，我們因?yàn)閬淼搅诉@個(gè)全是些傻瓜的廣大的舞臺(tái)之上，所以禁不住放聲大哭。

No, no, no, no. Come, let’s away to prison.

We two alone will sing like birds i’ th’ cage.

When thou dost ask me blessing, I’ll kneel down

And ask of thee forgiveness. So we’ll live,

And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh

At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues

Talk of court news, and we’ll talk with them too—

Who loses and who wins; who’s in, who’s out—

And take upon ’s the mystery of things,

As if we were God’s spies. And we’ll wear out,

In a walled prison, packs and sects of great ones

That ebb and flow by th’ moon.

不，不，不，不!來，讓我們到監(jiān)牢里去。我們兩人將要像籠中之鳥一般唱歌;

當(dāng)你求我為你祝福的時(shí)候，我要跪下來求你饒恕;我們就這樣生活著，祈禱，唱歌，說些古老的故事，嘲笑那班像金翅蝴蝶般的廷臣，聽聽那些可憐的人們講些宮廷里的消息;我們也要跟他們?cè)谝黄鹫勗?，誰失敗，誰勝利，誰在朝，誰在野，用我們的意見解釋各種事情的秘奧，就像我們是上帝的耳目一樣;在囚牢的四壁之內(nèi)，我們將要冷眼看那些朋比為奸的黨徒隨著月亮的圓缺而升沉。