Today’s Totally Random Lines

 

I do protest I never injured thee,

But love thee better than thou canst devise

Till thou shalt know the reason of my love.

 

Romeo

Romeo and Juliet           Act III Scene i, Line 70

 

Tybalt, a Capulet, is trying to pick a fight with Romeo, a Montague. Romeo, who has just secretly married Juliet, a Capulet, is trying to talk Tybalt down. The reason that he loves Tybalt is that he is now related to him by marriage. Of course, he can’t tell Tybalt this.

In case you want to know what happens, he does manage to talk Tybalt down. Well, almost, but then Romeo’s buddy Mercutio the hothead (no relation to Hotspur) steps in and picks up the fight with Tybalt. Romeo tries to break this up, but swords are drawn and Mercutio gets killed. Tybalt runs away, but comes back a little later and Romeo kills him. So now two guys are dead, and Romeo’s on the run.

What started out with Romeo telling the guy who was picking a fight that he loved him, ends up with two guys dead. So much for trying to be a peace maker, eh?

 

 

Lovers, not fighters: Both of us.

(Unless someone tries to steal that In-N-Out burger)

 

 

 

Today’s Totally Random Lines

 

My lord, for your many courtesies I thank you: I must discontinue your company: your brother the bastard is fled from Messina: you have among you kill’d a sweet and innocent lady.

 

Benedick

Much Ado About Nothing     Act V Scene i, Line 187

 

Well that’s a mouthful, and for the most part easy to grasp: Thanks, gotta go, your brother already left, (okay, got it, got it,)

You have among you killed a sweet and innocent lady, (don’t got it). What the heck. Who killed who? Sweet and innocent? What’s going on here. Okay, I guess I’ll have to take a closer look. 

 

 

As you can see, I called in my consultant. We spent a bit of time going over the text together. 

Conclusion?

 

Enough already, enough! I've had enough of this Shakespeare nonsense! Somebody get me out of here!

Help!

 

 

Today’s Totally Random Lines

 

My lady’s a Cataian, we are politicians, Malvolio’s a Peg-a-Ramsey, and ‘Three merry men be we.’ 

 

Sir Toby Welch

Twelfth Night         Act II Scene iii, Line 73

 

Cataian is Chinaman, politicians are schemers, and Peg-a-Ramsey I have no idea what that is.

Okay then, Sir Toby Welch, Sir Andrew Aguecheek, and Feste are up drinking, carousing and making a lot of noise. Maria, the servant woman of Olivia (this scene is taking place in Olivia’s house where Sirs Toby and Andrew are guests) comes in to tell them to quiet down.

What a caterwauling do you keep here! If my lady have not called up her steward Malvolio, and bid him turn you out of doors, never trust me.

To which Sir Toby replies by calling her a Chinaman, themselves schemers, Malvolio a Peg-a-Ramsey (whatever that is), and declaring himself, Sir Andrew, and Feste ‘three merry men’.

Basically, Sir Toby is saying “Turn down for what?”

 

 

Ahhhhh! Turn down for what!!