Bibliotheca Polyglotta

Kærlighedens komedie (Love’s Comedy)

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STYVER.
Nej, ved bordet.

STIVER.
Yes, such were my transgressions.

GULDSTAD
(slår på sit glas).
Silentium, nu har kopisten ordet!

GULDSTAD
[ringing on his glass].
Silence for our solicitor’s confessions!

STYVER.
Især om aftningen, når jeg var fri,
jeg konciperte remser poesi,
så lange, som – ja to-tre brukne ark.
Det gik!

STIVER.
But chiefly after five, when I was free,
I’d rattle off whole reams of poetry--
Ten--fifteen folios ere I went to bed--

FALK.
Du gav din Muse blot et spark,
så traved hun –

FALK.
I see--you gave your Pegasus his head,
And off he tore--

STYVER.
Ustemplet eller stemplet
papir, se det var hende ligegodt.

STIVER.
On stamped or unstamped paper--
’Twas all the same to him--he’d prance and caper--

FALK.
Så poesien flommed lige flot?
Men hør, hvorledes brød du ind i templet?

FALK.
The spring of poetry flowed no less flush?
But how, pray, did you teach it first to gush?

STYVER.
Ved hjælp af kærlighedens brækjern, ven!
Med andre ord, så var det frøken Skære,
min kæreste, som hun blev senere hen,
for dengang var hun –

STIVER.
By aid of love’s divining-rod, my friend!
Miss Jay it was that taught me where to bore,
My fiancee--she became so in the end--
For then she was--

FALK.
Ret og slet din kære.

FALK.
Your love and nothing more.

STYVER
(vedblivende).
Det var en sælsom tid; min jus jeg glemte;
min pen jeg spidsed ej, nej, jeg den stemte,
og når den i konceptpapiret rev,
det klang som melodi til hvad jeg skrev; –
omsider expederte jeg et brev
til hende – hun –

STIVER
[continuing].
’Twas a strange time; I could not read a bit;
I tuned my pen instead of pointing it;
And when along the foolscap sheet it raced,
It twangled music to the words I traced;--
At last by letter I declared my flame
To her--to her--

FALK.
Hvis kæreste du blev.

FALK.
Whose fiancee you became.

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