Mojo, Will, & Me

Believe not thy disdain, but presently

Do thine own fortunes that obedient right

Which both thy duty owes and our power claims;

Or I will throw thee from my care for ever

Into the staggers and the careless lapse

Of youth and ignorance; both my revenge and hate

Loosing upon thee, in the name of justice,

Without all terms of pity. Speak; thine answer.

-King

 

All’s Well That Ends Well             Act II, scene iii   Line 168

Yes, I went a little long here on the line. It just seems that some days we need to go with quite a few lines to get any kind of continuity. Sorry about that.

Okay, here’s what’s going on here. Helena found a cure for the king and her reward is that she gets to pick any guy in the kingdom to be her husband. She picks Bertram, who’s a lord and he wants nothing to do with here because she’s a commoner. And the king’s response to that is what he says to Bertram in today’s Totally Random line: Bertram had better take Helena ‘or else!’ And what is Betram’s answer? The little weasel puts his tail between his legs and says that Helena is just fine for him. So that didn’t take much, did it? One quick threat and he caves. Would that all issues could be resolved with a simple threat.

‘You heard me, do thine own fortunes that obedient right which both thy duty owes and our power claims and practice your piano! Now!’

Oh yeah, that’ll work. Sure. Keep dreaming.

And by the way, here’s that disdain word again. Well at least now we know exactly what it means.

That's a nice piano, isn't it? See anyone practicing on it? No, me neither.