Walk aside the true folk, and let the traitors stay.
Exeunt COSTARD and JAQUENETTA
-Costard
Love’s Labour’s Lost Act IV, Scene iii, Line 210
This same shall go.---
-Longaville
Love’s Labour’s Lost Act
IV, scene iii, Line 57
Well, sorry folks, but I’ve been having a bit of a tough
time keeping up with my blogging lately. I’d say it’s partly due to a busy
schedule, partly due to being under the weather, and partly due to who knows
what. But I’m gonna see if I cant’ get back on track here today, so bear with
me.
So we’re going with two lines today. The first one is
actually today’s Totally Random line and the second one is from back in January
from a day that I didn’t post (for whatever reason). And honestly, I don’t have
much on the second line (which is probably why it didn’t get posted on). Here’s
what I wrote back then on the second line:
We are back at Love’s Labour’s Lost
for only the second time and Randomness has us with this same guy, Longaville.
It’s a crazy scene where we keep adding guys watching other guys in the scene
without being seen. Sound confusing? It sort of is.
I’m not sure today’s line is worth
much of spending a lot of time on. I think he’s just talking about some lines
of poetry that need to go?
Maybe today’s line needs to go?
Now you see why I didn’t post it. But I included it today because
today’s line, which isn’t bad, is from the same scene. At this point in the
scene we have Costard talking and, depending on which version you look at,
Costard is described as listed in the cast of characters as either a clown, or a country bumpkin, or something of the
sort. But in today’s Totally Random line he’s referring to himself
and Jaqueneta (a country wench) as the ‘true folk’. I really like the way he
does it, refering to himself and her in the third person that way, and with that title 'the true folk'. It's classic! Also, I gave
you the stage direction that follows the line. There’s that ‘exeunt’, plural of
exit, but more importantly the stage direction makes clear who Costard is
referring to as ‘the true folk.’ There might be confusion as to what or who he's talking about when he says 'walk aside the true folk', but the confusion is gone when right after saying it he and Jaquenetta walk aside.
Okay, I’m about done for today. I guess I’ll put my keyboard
down and, you guessed it, walk aside the true folk. Stage direction: Exit Pete.
A lot of true folk walk aside here, some going south, and some going north (can you read the fine print on the metal band on the cement post?).
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