莎剧译选和比读：My liege, I did deny no pr ...

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My liege, I did deny no prisoners. 30

But I remember, when the fight was done,

When I was dry with rage and extreme toil,

Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword,

Came there a certain lord, neat, and trimly dress'd,

Fresh as a bridegroom; and his chin new reap'd   35

Show'd like a stubble-land at harvest-home;

He was perfumed like a milliner;

And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held

A pouncet-box, which ever and anon

He gave his nose and took't away again;   40

Who therewith angry, when it next came there,

Took it in snuff; and still he smiled and talk'd,

And as the soldiers bore dead bodies by,

He call'd them untaught knaves, unmannerly,

To bring a slovenly unhandsome corse   45

Betwixt the wind and his nobility.

With many holiday and lady terms

He question'd me; amongst the rest, demanded

My prisoners in your majesty's behalf.

I then, all smarting with my wounds being cold,  50

To be so pester'd with a popinjay,

Out of my grief and my impatience,

Answer'd neglectingly I know not what,

He should or he should not; for he made me mad

To see him shine so brisk and smell so sweet  55

And talk so like a waiting-gentlewoman

Of guns and drums and wounds,--God save the mark!--

And telling me the sovereign'st thing on earth

Was parmaceti for an inward bruise;

And that it was great pity, so it was, 60

This villanous salt-petre should be digg'd

Out of the bowels of the harmless earth,

Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd

So cowardly; and but for these vile guns,

He would himself have been a soldier.  65

This bald unjointed chat of his, my lord,

I answer'd indirectly, as I said;

And I beseech you, let not his report

Come current for an accusation

Betwixt my love and your high majesty. 70

(选自《亨利四世》上篇 第一幕第三场) 

朱生豪  译：

    霍茨波

    陛下，我并没有拒交战俘，可是我记得，就在战事完了以后，我因为苦斗多时，累得气喘吁吁，乏力不堪，正在倚剑休息，那时候来了一个衣冠楚楚的大臣，打扮得十分整洁华丽，仿佛像个新郎一般；他的颏下的胡子新薙不久，那样子就像收获季节的田亩里留着一株株割剩的断梗；他的身上像一个化妆品商人似的洒满了香水；他用两只手指撮着一个鼻烟匣子，不时放在他的鼻子上嗅着，一边笑，一边滔滔不绝地说话；他看见一队兵士抬看尸体经过他的面前，就骂他们是没有教育，不懂规矩的家伙，竟敢把丑恶污秽的骸骨冒渎他的尊严的鼻官。他用许多文绉绉的妇人气的语句向我问这样问那样，并且代表陛下要求我把战俘交出。那时我创血初干，遍身痛楚，这饶舌的鹦鹉却向我缠扰不休，因为激于气愤，不经意地回答了他两句，自己也记不起来说了些什么话。他简直使我发疯，瞧着他那种美衣华服、油头粉面的样子，夹着一阵阵脂粉的香味，讲起话来活像一个使女的腔调，偏要高谈什么枪炮战鼓、杀人流血——上帝恕我这样说！他还告诉我鲸脑是医治内伤的特效秘方；人们不该把制造火药的硝石从善良的大地的腹中发掘出来，使无数大好的健儿因之都遭到暗算，一命呜呼；他自己倘不是因为憎厌这些万恶的炮火，也早就做一个军人了。陛下，他这一番支离琐碎的无聊废话，我是用冷嘲热骂的口气回答他的；请陛下不要听信他的一面之辞，怀疑我的耿耿的忠诚。