Mojo, The Bard, & Me

 Today’s Totally Random Line(s)

                 

Give me some music:-- now, good morrow, friends:

 

-Duke of Illyria

Twelfth Night                             Act II, Scene iv, Line 1

And he goes on to talk about song,

Give me some music:— now, good morrow, friends:

Now, good Cesario, but that piece of song,

That old and antique song we heard last night:

Methought it di relieve my passion much,

More than light airs and recollected terms

Of these most brisk and giddy-paced times:--

Come, but one verse.

He’s all about the music. I love this guy. This is the same guy who gives us the very first, famous line of this play,

If music be the food of love, play on:

Surely that line is familiar to you, if today’s is not.

I saw this play performed in Nashville a few years ago and it just now occurred to me how fitting that was: Nashville - Music City!

And it also occurred me just now what a music nut this Duke is. I don’t remember this line from seeing the play, and I don’t remember ever reading this line before, but I find it stunning that the Duke opens two scenes of this play (one of them the first scene of the play) talking about music. I suddenly feel like I know this guy. Hah.

This is the most musical guy I know, though admittedly, he's not being very musical in this pic.