Today’s Totally Random
Lines
He
professes to have received no sinister measure from his judge, but most
willingly humbles himself to the determination of justice: yet had he framed to
himself, by the instruction of his frailty, many deceiving promises of life;
which I, by my good leisure, have discredited to him, and now is he resolved to
die.
Duke/Friar
Measure For Measure Act
III, Scene ii, Line 251
The duke, disguised as a friar, is talking to
Escalus and Provost about Claudio. The latter is a prisoner of the state and
has been sentenced to death. I’ll give you the straight up Pete’s Version of
today’s paragraph.
He (Claudio) believes he got a fair judgment and wants only
what is just. However, being the weak man that he his, he’s convinced himself
that there must be a way out. I (duke/friar), in my good time, have convinced
him otherwise, and now he is ready to accept his fate.
Pretty straightforward, eh?
Now, since we’ve landed, today, only a dozen or so lines up from one of my favorite lines, I’ll end with it. It’s the Duke, now alone, speaking indirectly about Angelo, the guy he left in charge and the guy who sentenced Claudio to death.
How may likeness wade in crimes,
Making practice on the times,
To draw with idle spiders' strings
Most ponderous and substantial things.
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2 comments:
I'll tell you what - as soon as I read that line, I was hoping a Pete Translation was coming.
Wtf kind of spider is that!?
One who has drawn with spider strings most ponderous and substantial things.
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