Mojo, The Bard, & Me

We will have, if this fadge not, an antick. I beseech you, follow.

-Armado

Love’s Labour’s Lost                      Act V scene i, line 140

Well, fadge is an interesting word, don’t you think? I had to look it up, and it doesn’t show up in contemporary dictionaries or google. I had to go to the glossary in my Shakespeare app. Fadge means succeed. So he’s saying that if this doesn’t work we’ll have an antick. And an antick has something to do with modern antic, so it’s a bit non-specific. Armado appears to be saying, If this doesn’t work, we’ll do something fun and a little bit wacky. If what doesn’t work? I don’t know. I didn’t do any reading on this. I just wrote down the line.

Rather than have an antick, or do any more reading on this line, I went for a walk. Whilst walking I came upon this bench. Needless to say, I stopped to rest with Edith for a little while. Again, no anticks!  But I did fadge in getting a little exercise on a beautiful day.