Today’s Totally Random
Lines
There
is a river in Macedon; and there is also moreover a river at Monmouth: it is called Wye at Monmouth; but it is out
of my prains what is the name of the other river; but ‘tis all one, ‘tis alike
as my fingers is to my fingers, and there is salmons in both.
Fluellen
King Henry the Fifth Act IV, Scene vii, Line 32
This
is Fluellen, the Welsh guy, and Gower. They are two soldiers in Henry’s army, and they are shooting the breeze during a respite in the battle. Prains is Will’s
way of making fun of Fluellen’s Welsh accent. He means brains. Then Fluellen starts
mixing up Macedon with Macedonia, and it goes on from there. I guess it’s a
little comic relief added into this history play.
These guys are hanging out in a small tributary of the Moanachira River.
I wonder if Fluellen could mix up Moanachira with Monmouth or Macedon?
1 comment:
But how do you know "prains" is making fun of the accent? What if prains means something?
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