Mojo, The Bard, & Me

They are all couch’d in a pit, hard by Herne’s oak, with obscured lights; which, at the very instant of Falstaff’s and our meeting, they will at once display to the night.

-Mistress Page

                       

The Merry Wives Of Windsor          Act V, Scene iii Line 14

The first thing that struck me in these lines is Herne’s Oak. If you’d like a pretty good explanation of this oak and it’s part in this play, here you go http://theshakespeareblog.com/2012/12/the-legend-of-hernes-oak/

Much better than I could do. In fact, that’s a pretty good Shakespeare blog if you’re looking for one.

By the way, this is the third time we’ve picked a Totally Random line from this short, twenty-four line scene. So that’s kind of interesting. We should know this scene by heart at this point, shouldn’t we? Spoiler alert: We don’t.

 

Here's WP couch'd and looking at his PC. So in today's line they were all sitting on a couch down in a pit by Herne's Oak, in the dark, ready to jump out at Falstaff? A couch in a pit? Well that just doesn't sound right. Does it? I told you we didn't know this scene.