Mojo, The Bard, & Me

 

Today’s Totally Random Lines

 

 

Madam, although I speak it in your presence,

You have a noble and a true conceit

Of god-like amity; which appears most strongly

In bearing thus the absence of your lord.

 

Lorenzo

The Merchant of Venice        Act III, Scene iv,  Line 1

 

Lorenzo is telling Portia she’s a good egg for letting her new husband take off to go help Antonio. Well, actually he tells her she has a noble and a true conceit of god-like amity. So that's almost the same as calling her a good egg. He goes on to tell her that if she knew what a great guy Antonio is, and how much he means to Bassanio, she would be even prouder of her own actions.

Good egg: that’s a term my mom used to use for people that were good folks. I just googled it, and it’s there. So I guess other people used it as well.

Yeah, Portia’s a good egg.

Speaking of mom, and good eggs, here she is with her granddaughter Jessica. Jessica, by the way, is a name credited by some to be the creation of Shakespeare, and she's in today's scene, though not in the part we looked at.

Anyway, Mom and Jessica, good eggs both.