Mojo, The Bard, & Me

 

The ditty does remember my drown’d father:-

This is no mortal business, nor no sound

That the earth owes:- I hear it now above me.

-Ferdinand

The Tempest               Act I, Scene i, Line 408

 

We've struck upon The Tempest today. These lines are where we first meet Ferdinand. Ariel is leading him onstage with music and a song, a ditty. Prospero and Miranda are watching Ferdinand from the side and will begin interacting with him momentarily. 

I kind of like that word 'ditty'. You still hear that being used now and then. Well, anyway, I use it.

Of course, when we end up in The Tempest we're bound to have a pic from our book. This is the same scene a few moments later when Ferdinand and Miranda are interacting. Ariel is there in the upper left hand corner of the pic, and Prospero in the upper right and lower left. Perhaps eventually we will default to our book illustrations for pics for The Merchant of Venice lines. But not yet.