Mojo, The Bard, & Me

 

Today’s Totally Random Line

 

‘Art thou ashamed to kiss? Then wink again,

And I will wink; so shall the day seem night;

Love keeps his revels where there are but twain;

Be bold to play, our sport is not in sight:

These blue-vein’d violets whereon we lean

Never can blab, nor know not what we mean.

 

Venus

Venus and Adonis                         Line 121

This is one verse from the poem. It’s the second page of an eleven-page poem, and Venus is trying to get some action from Adonis; trying and failing. She’s telling him that no one’s going to see them, and that the violets that they’re sitting on aren’t going to blab.

Can you believe it: Blab is a Shakespearean word? Blab? Who would’ve thunk it?  

Blab?

Yes, Mojo: Blab.