There let his head and lifeless body lie,
Until
the queen his mistress bury it.
-Walter Whitmore
King Henry The Sixth
Part III Act IV, Scene i, Line 143
Well we took a few days off, didn't we? And now that we're back we're at a scene that we’ve been to before. But it was way back in September. At that time I commented on what a bad-ass Suffolk was
based on what he was saying then. But now, well that head and lifeless body being referred to, that's Suffolk. And based on the fact that Whitmore is referring separately to his head and lifeless body, I
believe we’re looking at yet another in Will’s long list of severed heads.
Remember, was it last August or September, when we were getting a severed head
every other day. Well, it’s been a while.
So I suppose we should give ol’ Walt the bad-ass title now. Not only has he killed and
decapitated Suffolk, but he’s calling out the queen (that’s Henry the Sixth’s
wife) as Suffolk’s mistress. And this from a guy named Walter Whitmore. Not Sir
Walter, or Duke of Whitmore, or King Walter. Just plain Walter. Now don’t
get me wrong all you Walters out there. I’m not dissing the name. I’m simply
saying that it doesn’t really have the
cache of a lot of the other titles we’ve run into have. Then again, what's in a name? Mr. Whitmore is still standing, and what did the name Duke of Suffolk get this other fellow? It got him his head lopped off, that's what it got him.
Now here's a fairly blasé name, nothing special about it at all. But we can dress it up a bit with a fancy name plaque. But at the end of the day, it's just a name.
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