Thursday, July 2, 2020


Your reeking villainy. Live loathed, and long,

-Timon

Timon Of Athens                      Act III, scene vi, line 92


Today’s Totally Random line is the end of one long sentence and the beginning of another. Here’s the first sentence:

                                       This is Timon’s last:
Who, stuck and spangled with your flattery,
Washes it off, and sprinkles in your faces
                                                [Throwing the water in their faces.
Your reeking villainy.

And after that he tells them to live long, loathed lives, and goes into a litany of name calling:

                                        Live loathed, and long,
Most smiling, smooth, detested parasites,
Courteous destroyers, affable wolves, meek bears,
You fools of fortune, trencher-friends, time’s flies,
Cap and knee slaves, vapours, and minute-jacks!

So needless to say, he’s not particularly happy with any of these guys, his dinner guests. Of course, they really are a bunch of schmucks and Timon should have realized that earlier. The next scene is Timon at the walls of the city, leaving the city behind forever, and cursing it. 

And a song for this?  Well, I'm not sure if Cap and knee is anything like Cap in Hand, but here you go.



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