The Traitor’s Apprentice (Quotations)

This is (I hope) a complete list of all the quotations – and some references made – in The Traitor’s Apprentice (the exception being the proverbs to which Anders Jensen is so given). Where a quote or reference has been fully explained in the text it is not included here. Longer quotations, such as songs or poems, I have only given the opening or first two lines. Not included are translations of the French, Spanish and German dialogue from various characters, on the basis that online translators are readily available. The quotations are listed in order of appearance.

Please note, unless otherwise stated, all Biblical quotations are taken from the King James Version.

Any mistakes in my attributions or missing quotations, please do let me know.

Per me si va ne la città dolente…
Words inscribed above the gates of Hell. From Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Abandon all hope, you who enter.
Words inscribed above the gates of Hell. From Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Thanne shaltow come to a courte as clere as the sonne, the mote is of mercy. The manere aboute, and alle the wallis ben of witte to holden Wille oute.
From Piers Plowman by William Langland

And in the same house we shall remain, eating and drinking such things as they give: for the labourer is worthy of his hire.
Luke 10:7

Woe unto you also, ye lawyers, for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.
Luke 11:46

How he is metamorphos’d. Nothing of Lawyer left, not a bit of buckram
From The Little French Lawyer by John Fletcher and Philip Massinger, Act Three, Scene One

When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business:
Deuteronomy 24:5

And there is in this business more than nature
From The Tempest by William Shakespeare, Act Five, Scene One

And if ye be born, ye shall be born to a curse: and if ye die, a curse shall be your portion.
Ecclesiasticus 41:9

In darkness let me dwell; the ground shall sorrow be, The roof despair, to bar all cheerful light from me
From the song In Darkness Let Me Dwell by John Dowland

Res dura, et regni novitas me talia cogunt Moliri.
Hard things, and the newness of the kingdom, compel me to do such things. From The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli.

I fear’d as much: murder can not be hid
From Edward the Second by Christopher Marlowe, Act Five, Scene Six.

That one night an angel heard God answer the prayers of a man, but the angel could not find the one who prayed…
Allegory given by Attar of Nishapur 12th century Sufi poet and writer, quoted by Gertrude Bell in her introduction to The Garden of Heaven: Poems of Hafiz

On n’est jamais si bien servi que par soi-même.
Rather than being about self-serving it means ‘If you want a job well done do it yourself.’

This is of purpose laid by some that hate me.
From The Life of King Henry the Eighth by William Shakespeare, Act Five, Scene Two

A fine clerk, and has his cyphering perfect. Will take his oath o’ the Greek Testament, if need be…
From The Alchemist by Ben Jonson, Act One, Scene One

Jachin and Boaz
Boaz and Jachin were the two tall pillars that stood at the entrance of the Temple of Solomon. 1 Kings 7:15

And they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.
Revelation 17:14

And certainly, the more a man drinketh of the world, the more it intoxicateth.
From On Youth and Age one of The Essays of Francis Bacon found in the 1612 edition

The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the Lord is sure
Psalm 19:7

The fisher hath a bait deceiving fish, the fowler hath a net deceiving fowls
From the poem The Wisedome Solomon Paraphrased by Thomas Middleton, Chapter Four

And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people…
Isaiah 2:4

It is new but a foolish way you have found out, that whom you cannot equal or come near in doing, you would destroy or ruin with evil speaking…
From Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter by Ben Jonson

Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust,
Like diamonds, we are cut with our own dust.
From The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster, Act Five, Scene Five

Like to calm weather at sea before a tempest,
false hearts speak fair to those they intend most mischief.
From The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster, Act Three Scene Five

Now wylle we begynne atte hare, and why? she is most merveylous best of the world and wherefore? that she bereth grece and grotheyth…
From Treatise Upon Hunting by Juliana Berners

An apple, cleft in two, is not more twin
From Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare, Act Five, Scene One

Here stood he in the dark, his sharp sword out, mumbling of wicked charms, conjuring the moon.
From King Lear by William Shakespeare, Act Two, Scene One

For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. And, The labourer is worthy of his reward.
1 Timothy 5:18

I have neither earrings of gold nor chains about my camels’ necks to offer you
References the end of the Biblical story of Gideon, Judges 8:22-28