Mojo, The Bard, & Me

 Today’s Totally Random Lines

 

O, no, my reasons are too deep and dead;--

Too deep and dead, poor infants, in their graves.

 

Queen Elizabeth

King Richard the Third       Act IV, Scene iv,  Line 363

 

Well, we’ve been to this scene before. It’s a fairly long scene, and in this part of it Richard is trying to talk Elizabeth into helping him woo her daughter. But Elizabeth knows that Richard has killed half her family, including her young sons, so she wants no part of this. For every reason that Richard gives her to help him, she has an equally good reason as to why she shouldn’t. Finally Richard says,

Your reasons are too shallow and too quick.

And that’s what Elizabeth is replying to with today’s line.
The guy is responsible for the deaths of her two young sons, the princes in the tower.

I think she gives a pretty reasonable response; To say the very least.

Speaking of little princes, our own little Prince Mojo has declined to join us today. No, he didn't give a reason, but apparently he had something more important to do. 

I wonder what that could have been.