Today’s Totally Random
Lines
Pray you, sir, how much carnation ribbon may a
man buy for a remuneration?
Costard
Love’s Labour’s Lost Act
III, Scene i, Line 143
It’s a comedy, isn’t it.
Costard here is a bit of a buffoon. So it’s a rather silly part of the scene where he doesn’t
know what remuneration actually means. Armado says he’ll give him remuneration
for delivering a letter, and so gives him three farthings. Now Costard,
unfamiliar with the word remuneration, thinks it means three farthings, and he’s
asking Berowne how much carnation ribbon he can buy with a remuneration,
meaning how much can he buy with three farthings. It makes sense to Costard of
course, but not to Berowne.
Again, it’s comedy.
Three farthings? Eh, probably not.
Three Farthing Stone? Yes indeed!
See, I told you Will's works and JRR's works were related.
1 comment:
I don't think so. I just threw that in there.
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