--bear
your body more seeming, Audrey:--
-Touchstone
As You Like It Act V Scene iv, Line 70
In today’s line
we have a situation where Touchstone is talking to Duke Senior and Jaques, and
he interrupts himself very briefly to tell Audrey to straighten up, then
immediately goes back to his main conversation. Let me show you what the line,
in total, looks like (and I’m not quite sure what the main conversation is all
about: something about a seventh cause).
Jaques: But for the seventh cause: how did you find
the quarrel on the seventh cause?
Touchstone: Upon a lie seven times removed:-- bear
your body more seeming, Audrey:--as thus, sir. I did dislike the cut of a
certain courtier’s beard. He sent me word, if I said his beard was not cut
well…
And Touchstone
goes on and on about the beard and the courtier and cutting the beard and so on,
and so on. But the point is that today’s line is a sort of random six words in
the middle of a fifteen line rant about something that has nothing to do with
Audrey or how Audrey is composing herself. It’s a funny little convention that
we probably all have experienced. Perhaps the best example would be when you’re
talking to your friend about dinner last night whilst at the same time taking care of a small child.
Well we had just been seated when the
waiter showed up to take our order:-- Johnny, get your finger out of your nose!--
and I said to him, well we just got here and I haven’t even seen the menu
yet…..
Get the picture?
So, you can put the front windshield down on this vehicle:--yeah, that's a lion, he won't bother you:-- and just as easily put it back up. It's handy sometime to drive with it down as I think you'll see.
Get the picture?
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