Today’s Totally Random Lines   Who? Sylvia?   Thurio Two Gentlemen of Verona     Act IV, Scene ii,  Line 23   “Who’s Sylvia?” “No, Mojo, Who? Sylvia?” “No, who is Sylvia?” “Oh. I’m not sure.” “You’re not sure?” “Yes, I’m not sure. I don’t know this play very well.” “So, you’ve been doing this for over seven years, and you still don’t know the plays?” “Well, I know them, but I don’t know all of them really well, and this is one of the ones that I don’t know well at all.” “Ugfff. Can we play through the chipmunk now?” Some days we don't get too far ..read more

  Today’s Totally Random Lines   Why, thou full dish of fool, Troy.   Thersites Troilus and Cressida                      Act V, Scene i,  Line 9   So, we're at it again, Mojo and me, taking our morning foray into the world of Elizabethan drama. “I don’t get it.” “It’s pretty simple Mojo: Thersites is delivering a letter to Achilles who is hanging out with his buddy Patroclus. The latter asks Thersites where the letter is from, and Thersites answers that it’s from Troy ..read more

  Today’s Totally Random Lines   If there be one among the fair’st of Greece That holds his honor higher than his ease; That seeks his praise more than he fears his peril; That knows his valour, and knows not his fear; That loves his mistress more than in confession With truant vows to her own lips he loves, And dare avow her beauty and her worth In other arms than hers,-- to him this challenge.   Aeneas Troilus and Cressida                      Act I, Scene iii,  Line 268 &n ..read more

  Today’s Totally Random Lines                      If thou couldst, doctor, cast The water of my hand, find her disease, And purge it to a sound and pristine health, I would applaud thee to the very echo, That should applaud again.   Macbeth Macbeth                                  Act V, Scene iii,  Line 51     Today we have our friend Macbeth, not Frank Macbet ..read more

  Today’s Totally Random Lines   And of all Christian souls, I pray God. –God be wi’ you.                                                                                           &nbs ..read more

  Today’s Totally Random Lines   They call drinking deep, dyeing scarlet; and when you breathe in your watering, they cry ‘hem!’ and bid you play it off.   Hal King Henry the Fourth Part I          Act II, Scene iv,  Line 16   I guess that I am not in too much of a Shakespearean mood this morn. Anon, anon. Anyway, Hal is just rambling about how he hangs out with a bunch of drinking buddies. And quite a bit of rambling it is. 2024 03 15 2 2 1 60 9 1487 00 1 1 2 234 00 16x9 156 6 3 4 (youtube.com) Well, I couldn't find anything ..read more

  Today’s Totally Random Lines   How art thou out of breath, when thou hast breath To say to me that thou are out of breath?   Juliet Romeo and Juliet                   Act II, Scene iv,  Line 32   Well now, it’s hard to argue with that logic! It has just occurred to me that there are two levels of pertinence for this pic: 1. That is a bubble gun in my hands (albeit in the shape of a turtle), and if you look close you can see the bubbles. That's why the little munchkin is smiling. S ..read more

  Today’s Totally Random Lines   Methought that I had broken from the Tower, And was embark to cross to Burgundy; And, in my company, my brother Gloster; Who from my cabin tempted me to walk Upon the hatches: thence we lookt toward England, And cited up a thousand heavy times, During the wars of York and Lancaster, That had befaln us.   Duke of Clarence King Richard the Third                 Act I, Scene iv,  Line 13   I was wont to give you the rest of this speech, and if I was a better and fas ..read more

 Today’s Totally Random Lines   I say, we will have no more marriages; those that are married already, all but  one, shall live; the rest shall keep as they are.   Hamlet Hamlet                            Act III, Scene i,  Line 150   Yes, Hamlet. This is the famous scene (heck, most of the scenes in this play are famous) that begins with the To be, or not to be soliloquy and then goes into Hamlet talking to Ophelia whilst Claudius and Polon ..read more

  Today’s Totally Random Lines     The spirits that know All mortal consequences have pronounced me thus, ‘Fear not, Macbeth; no man that’s born of woman Shall e’er have power upon thee.’—Then fly, false thanes, And mingle with the English epicures: The mind I sway by and the heart I bear Shall never sag with doubt nor shake with fear.      Macbeth Macbeth                         Act V, Scene iii,  Line 8   One with sensitive and discriminating t ..read more