Mojo, The Bard, & Me

 

Today’s Totally Random Lines

 

Here is such patchery, such juggling, and such knavery! All the argument is a cuckold and a whore; a good quarrel to draw emulous (rival) factions and bleed to death upon. Now, the dry serpigo (spreading skin disease) on the subject! And war and lechery confound all!

 

Thersites

Troilus and Cressida      Act II, Scene iii, Line 75

I added some help in the parentheses above, but these lines are still difficult to pick through. The speaker, Thersites, is listed in the cast of characters as a deform’d and scurrilous Grecian. He more or less plays the part of one of Will’s fools, and in today’s passage he’s just ranting about the war that’s going on and the people involved. That’s really it in a nutshell.

So you’re not going to wear us out with some scurrilous three page explanation of what the real meaning of this whole serpigo is?

No Mojo, I’m not. But I will point out that I don’t think you used either of those words, scurrilous or serpigo, properly. 

Nice try though.