English essay about English play? Write. In. English!

[beccaelizabeth]

étranger à tous lieux où il poind

and

lisant au livre de lui-même

probably mean something interesting, given that they're quoted to support something interesting about Hamlet, but having only the one language I wouldn't know.

babelfish sez

foreigner with all places where it poind

reading with the book of itself

... I'm not sure that's terribly helpful.

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[msp-hacker.livejournal.com]

When I was writing my essay on Welsh phonetics, I asked linguaphiles what the quoted Welsh bits were. I think <lj user="multilingual" might be good for this purpose as well. Or maybe there just needs to be a "not all academics are polyglots" community.

Trying to help...

[kanld.livejournal.com]

I'm not quite sure as it's old French for the first, and unusual/poetic form for the second, but I'd translate in (modern) English by:
1- Foreign (absent, alien) to every places where he arrives (comes in) = wherever he comes to be, he's like he's not there.
Nota: "poindre" is an old verb used for the sun rising, for example, or more precisely for the day starting "Quand le jour poind...")
2- Reading in himself's book (the book about himself) = reading about his own story (maybe like it's about somebody else); but I miss the context here.
Does this help?