Today’s Totally Random Lines
Tend me to-night;
May be it is the period of your duty:
Haply you shall not see me more; or if,
A mangled shadow: perchance to-morrow
You'll serve another master. I look on you
As one that takes his leave.
Antony
Antony and Cleopatra Act
IV, Scene ii, Line 28
Two vocabulary notes:
Period = End
Haply = Perhaps (NOT Happily)
Antony is convinced that he’s going to be defeated tomorrow in battle, so he’s saying goodbye to his servants.
If you’re as old as me, or if you have a good sense of American 1970’s history, this scene might make you think of Richard Nixon saying goodbye to the White House staff. This latter scene was immortalized in song.
Both Antony’s and Nixon’s scene are pretty sad. It’s a rainy day today, haply reflecting the mood of today’s line.
1 comment:
OOOOOOO Before I even got to the end I was thinking of that song!
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