Английский язык с Марком Твеном. Принц и нищий / Mark Twain. The Prince and the Pauper

'Tarry (обожди)! There's fine mummeries here (тут чудесный балаган; mummery — рождественская пантомима; маскарад). Mar them not till thou'st enjoyed them (не прерывай его, пока не насладишься им; to mar — искажать, портить; ‘st = hast — устар. вместо have); then let thy hand be heavy as thou wilt (тогда позволь своей руке быть (такой) тяжкой, как ты захочешь). Stand forth, lad (встань-ка тут, парень). Now say thy foolery again (теперь скажи свои глупости снова), an thou'st not forget it (если ты не забыл их). Name thy name (назови твое имя). Who art thou? (кто ты).

patience [`peıS(ə)ns], oaken [`əuk(ə)n], feature [`fi:tSə]

WE left John Canty dragging the rightful prince into Offal Court, with a noisy and delighted mob at his heels. There was but one person in it who offered a pleading word for the captive, and he was not heeded; he was hardly even heard, so great was the turmoil. The prince continued to struggle for freedom, and to rage against the treatment he was suffering, until John Canty lost what little patience was left in him, and raised his oaken cudgel in a sudden fury over the prince's head. The single pleader for the lad sprang to stop the man's arm, and the blow descended upon his own wrist. Canty roared out:

'Thou'lt meddle, wilt thou? Then have thy reward.'

His cudgel crashed down upon the meddler's head; there was a groan, a dim form sank to the ground among the feet of the crowd, and the next moment it lay there in the dark alone. The mob pressed on, their enjoyment nothing disturbed by this episode.

Presently the prince found himself in John Canty's abode, with the door closed against the outsiders. By the vague light of a tallow candle which was thrust into a bottle, he made out the main features of the loathsome den, and also of the occupants of it. Two frowsy girls and a middle-aged woman cowered against the wall in one corner, with the aspect of animals habituated to harsh usage, and expecting and dreading it now. From another corner stole a withered hag with streaming gray hair and malignant eyes. John Canty said to this one:

'Tarry! There's fine mummeries here. Mar them not till thou'st enjoyed them; then let thy hand be heavy as thou wilt. Stand forth, lad. Now say thy foolery again, an thou'st not forget it. Name thy name. Who art thou?'

The insulted blood mounted (оскорбленная кровь поднялась) to the little prince's cheek once more (к щекам маленького принца снова) and he lifted a steady and indignant gaze (и он поднял твердый и негодующий взгляд на) to the man's face (на лицо этого человека), and said (и сказал):

''Tis but ill-breeding in such as thou (это только невоспитанность в таком, как ты) to command me to speak (приказывать мне говорить). I tell thee now (я говорю тебе сейчас), as I told thee before (как я сказал тебе прежде), I am Edward, Prince of Wales (я Эдуард, принц Уэльский), and none other (и никто другой).'