Today’s Totally Random Lines

 

Since when I have been debtor to you for courtesies, which I will be ever to pay, and yet still pay.  

 

Posthumus Leonatus

Cymbeline              Act I, Scene iv, Line 35

 

I’m not sure at all what to say about Today’s Line. Posthumus is merely acknowledging some kindness that the Frenchman showed him when the former was in France.

Perhaps we could look at the name Posthumus Leonatus. Either one of those two names alone is a bit of a mouthful. The two together are two mouthfuls. That’s a lot. I can’t imagine having a mouthful of something and then having to stuff in just as much before swallowing what I already have. That’s just too much. 

Oooh, mind boggling. 

 

 

Yah, yah, mind boggling: whatever you say... ooohh, that's the spot, don't stop, don't stop.

 

 

Today’s Totally Random Lines

 

Mine honour is my life; both grow in one;

Take honour from me, and my life is done:

Then, dear my liege, mine honour let me try;

In that I live, and for that will I die.

 

Duke of Norfolk

King Richard the Second       Act I, Scene i, Line 185

 

Apparently honour is somewhat important to the Duke of Norfolk. He uses that word three times in four lines. It was very easy for me to see that he uses it three times because the word honour sticks out with its red underlining. No, it’s not misspelt, it’s just that Word doesn’t recognize the British version of the word honour. Honour, honour, honour, honour. There, no matter how many times you underline it in red, it’s not wrong! This may just be a cellar office, but it’s my office, and I say what goes here, not some silly, red-lining, AI wannabe, program! It’s HONOUR!

  

 

 

What's all that yelling? Is everything okay down there?

 

Today’s Totally Random Lines

Well, thou hast a son shall take this disgrace off me; scurvy, old filthy scurvy lord!

Parolles

All’s Well That Ends Well      Act II, Scene iii, Line 239

Parolles is alone and talking about Lafeu, who has just walked off. The latter is an old man and a lord, and he’s just spent the last few minutes insulting Parolles, who is a commoner. So Parolles is all worked up, but afraid to do anything about it because 1) Lafeu is an old man and he doesn’t want to fight with an old man, and 2) Lafeu is a lord and he doesn’t want to fight with a lord. Parolles is stuck yelling at the wind, sort of.

I guess he’s saying that he’ll fight Lafeu’s son in order to regain his honor; a son who’s apparently neither old, nor a lord. I’m not sure there even is a son of Lafeu, because he’s not mentioned otherwise in this play, but perhaps Parolles knows more than we do about Lafeu’s family. In any event, beating up on the son because the dad insulted him doesn’t make all that much sense to me, but who am I to say. 

 

Did someone say something about old guys? I've got an old guy too, and he doesn't give me much trouble at all. Maybe I could give Parolles a few tips about how to handle old guys?