Mojo, The Bard, & Me

 Today’s Totally Random Line(s)

  

                              Tell her, Emilia,

I’ll use that tongue I have: if wit flow from’t,

As boldness from my bosom, let’t not be doubted

I shall do good.

 

-Paulina

The Winter’s Tale                    Act II, Scene ii, Line 51

Well, the best laid plans of mice and men go oft awry. This ain’t gonna work out the way Paulina hopes, but that’s a scene for another day.

This here, is a short scene where one of the king’s men’s wives is trying to intercede to get the king to realize that the queen is innocent of any infidelity. 

Anyway, I just like reading Will’s words. From’t.  Let’t. 
He simply wrote better than anyone else in the English language; before or since. It’s a shame that most people don’t get to see that. It’s funny, because most people are like the king. He believes that his wife has been unfaithful. She simply, and without any doubt, has not. But he just can’t see it. Paulina knows it, but she’s not going to be able to convince him.
 
Most people believe that Will wrote in a form of English that is difficult, if not impossible to understand and not worth the trouble of reading. He simply, and without any doubt did not. His words are understandable and worth reading. Most people don’t believe this, but I know it.

So, I guess you can call me Paulina for today. But then I get to call you Leontes (that’s the king’s name). 

So this line of thought got me to thinking further: do you think Paul McCartney read Shakespeare? Because if he did, wouldn't the song have been Let't Be?

Anyway, here's my little buddy playing. I don't think he was playing Let't Be at this point, but he definitely got to that one at a later date.