Mojo, The Bard, & Me

 Today’s Totally Random Lines

 

‘Item, She hath a sweet mouth.’

 

Speed

The Two Gentlemen of Verona     Act III Scene i, Line 320

This is an odd little scene with Speed and Launce. These guys are listed in the cast of characters as clownish servants, so that should give you a heads up.

Launce has made a list of the virtues and vices of a maid that he is in love with. Now Speed is reading through that list. This item about a sweet mouth is listed in the vices section, so at first that seems a little puzzling. But the first vice is bad breath, and the second is a sweet mouth, to which Launce comments

That makes amends for her sour breath.

So, bad breath is a vice, and the sweet mouth is listed here to explain that there is an offset to it. The next one is that she talks in her sleep, but the one after that is that she is slow in her words, so I guess the sleep talking is not too bad. The list goes on, but you get the idea.

Item, she can’t sit in the passenger seat without telling me how to drive.
Item, she knows it bugs the heck out of me, so she tries really hard not to do it.

You should talk, Mr. Blagys. You’re constantly criticizing my driving.

Cut the chatter, and concentrate on the road, Mario. 

Who’s Mario?

Just drive, Mojo, just drive.