Keep,
then, fair league and truce with thy true bed;
Adriana
The Comedy Of Errors Act
II, Scene ii Line 144
Okay, back to The
Comedy Of Errors. Remember, this is a story about twins separated at birth
and living apart, not knowing where the other one is. To make it more
interesting, each twin has as his personal servant one of another set of twins.
And of course to make it supremely interesting, each of these two pairs of
brothers has the same name as the other brother. The play takes place over the
course of one day when one of the twins, with his servant, wanders into the
town where the other lives. During the course of the play none of the twins are
ever in the same scene as their twin, and they don’t even know that the other
exists in the town. It’s not till the last scene of the play that they all end
up on the stage together and realize what’s been going on. Only Will and the
Three’s Company writers could have come up with this one.
Anyway, today’s line is the wife of resident twin talking to
the visiting twin (of course thinking he’s the resident twin, that is to say,
her husband). His response will be
something along the lines of ‘who are you?’ And her line above is just a small
part of what she’s going on and on about. So do we want to talk about this line?
I mean, what do we do with it. To wrangle much meaning out of it we’d have to
do at least a little context work with it. And honestly, I just don’t know if
I’m up for that tonight. I think I’d rather just find some sort of mildly
related picture and move on.
Okay, what's this? It's a rose on a bed. So it seems like this would be a bed that you'd want to keep a truce with. Right?
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