I
have, sir, as I was commanded from you, Spoke with the king and have procured
his leave For present parting;
Helena
All's Well That Ends Well Act
II, Scene v Line 57
My
husband will not rejoice so much at the abuse of Falstaff as he will chafe at
the doctor's marrying my daughter:
Mistress Page
The Merry Wives Of Windsor Act
V, Scene iii Line 7
Okay, today we're going to try the two Totally Random lines in one post thing again. I know we've done this at least one time before and it was a big hit, so we'll take another shot at it.
The first line is from a scene that has Lafeu, just like Beauty and the Beast. I
wonder if Beauty and the Beast took anything else from All’s Well That Ends
Well. After thinking about it, and taking a look at the play a little more, I
think no. Bertram is a bit of a beast in this play, and in the end he appears
to come around to loving Helena, but that’s about it. I think the Disney folks
just borrowed the name of Lafeu, and that’s about it.
Anyway, this is Helena talking to Bertram her husband. If
you remember from one of our earlier posts back in December, she won her husband as a
reward and he wasn’t too interested in becoming her husband. Now she addresses
him as ‘sir’, and talks about what he commanded her to do. So that’s a little
interesting, don’t you think?
Our second line is from the Merry Wives Of Windsor and it's interesting on a few notes. For one thing it’s
only one line away from our only other post on The Merry Wives. That
was the doctor saying
I know vat I have to do. Adieu.
And Mistress Page answers
Fare you well, sir.
Then after the doc leaves she says today's Totally Random line
So we’ve hit this play but twice, and we’ve struck it on the
same page only two lines apart.
So this is two days in a row that we have lines that have something to say about marriages. And really, neither one of them appears to be saying anything particularly good about this fine institution.
Come to think of it, Beauty And The Beast didn't say too much good stuff about marriage either, did it?
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