Today’s Totally Random
Lines
Pat, pat; and here’s a marvellous convenient place for our rehearsal.
Peter Quince
A Midsummer Night’s Dream Act III, Scene i, Line 2
Pat, pat is a relatively meaningless expression here. It could be
replaced with Okay, or Now then, or absolutely nothing. And marvellous
with two L’s, well that’s the way it’s spelt in my book. I suppose I should check
my Folio, and perhaps I’ll do that later when I’m downstairs.
So here we have Peter Quince (yes, it only has Quince without a first name in my book, but, well, his name is Peter) talking to the rest of the guys as they meet in the forest to rehearse. The first line of the scene is Bottom asking Are we all here. Bottom likes to get as many lines as he can in this play and in the play within the play.
And, yes, it’s snowing again (here in Cheshire, not in the play). And it snowed, and it snowed…and it snowed.
That’s a Donner party reference. I don’t think that we’re quite at Donner party status yet.
In any event (another fairly meaningless sentence starter), I’m
downstairs now, and the FF has it as marvailous. Well, that’s interesting. I’m
thinking that my book is just a typo. And now I've checked my E.G. Harrison
Shakespeare compilation and it’s marvelous, as it should be. So I’m going to
take this morning’s marvellous as a garden variety typo. What the heck.
Ahh, this guy is just going on and on. I'm thinking about going outside to have a smoke, Mrs. Blagys. Care to join me?
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