O
father, what a hell of witchcraft lies
In
the small orb of one particular tear!
A Lover’s Complaint Line 288
No play today,
but a pretty good pair of lines, nonetheless. A Lover’s Complaint is a long poem Will wrote about a maid telling
her tale to an old man about how she was seduced by ‘one by nature’s outwards
so commended/That maidens’ eyes stuck over all his face:’ That’s right, a
pretty boy. I’m not sure if she ever caught his name. Anyway, it was apparently
the lad’s tears that convinced her of his sincerity, and won her over in the
end. Now she’s lamenting that.
That should
clarify what today’s Totally Random line is about. Now, don’t you agree that it’s
a good line? I think it’s a really good line.
In the small orb of one
particular tear!
One tear!
No pic needed, eh?
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