Mojo, The Bard, & Me

 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.