Mojo, The Bard, & Me

 Today’s Totally Random Line(s)

                 

Hover about her; say, that right for right

Hath dimm’d your infant morn to aged night.

 
-Queen Margaret

King Richard the Third                 Act IV, Scene iv, Line 16

Margaret is overlooking Elizabeth and the Duchess of York, the latter’s mother-in-law and listening in on their conversation.

Keep in mind, Margaret is the widow of Henry VI, and Elizabeth is the widow of Edward IV. Henry and Edward battled over the kingship and Edward finally won, but now Edward has died of illness. Edward has two sons, but he also has a brother who is destined to be Richard the Third. Richard is taking over now and has those two sons locked away in the Tower of London. They will become known as the princes in the tower.

Elizabeth is lamenting her two sons' fate whilst Margaret listens,

Ah, my poor princes! Ah, my tender babes!
My unblown flowers, new-appearing sweets!
If yet your gentle souls fly in the air,
And be not fixt in doom perpetual,
Hover about me with your airy wings,
And hear your mother’s lamentation!

And Margaret responds, speaking to herself, with Today’s Totally Random Lines. So both the women are addressing the absent princes, but each has a different message for them. The mother of the princes misses them, naturally. Margaret (no relation to the princes), having lost her husband, Henry VI and her son in the war, really has no love for the princes. In fact, she sees the assumed fate of the princes as an eye for any eye.

It’s certainly two very different thoughts about the princes. 

Something tells me I've used this pic before, but, oh well.

I decided to key in on two things: hover (since both the ladies said that word), and two very different views on the same thing. 

Here's a helicopter hovering over the football field to drop Easter eggs for an Easter egg hunt. Obviously, someone thought this would be a great idea. In retrospect, I thought it was one of the dumbest things I've ever seen.