We will have, if this fadge not, an antick. I beseech you, follow.

-Armado

Love’s Labour’s Lost                      Act V scene i, line 140

Well, fadge is an interesting word, don’t you think? I had to look it up, and it doesn’t show up in contemporary dictionaries or google. I had to go to the glossary in my Shakespeare app. Fadge means succeed. So he’s saying that if this doesn’t work we’ll have an antick. And an antick has something to do with modern antic, so it’s a bit non-specific. Armado appears to be saying, If this doesn’t work, we’ll do something fun and a little bit wacky. If what doesn’t work? I don’t know. I didn’t do any reading on this. I just wrote down the line.

Rather than have an antick, or do any more reading on this line, I went for a walk. Whilst walking I came upon this bench. Needless to say, I stopped to rest with Edith for a little while. Again, no anticks!  But I did fadge in getting a little exercise on a beautiful day.

You do him wrong, surely.


-Duke



Measure For Measure                 Act III scene ii, line 131



Now I don’t know the full context here, but I do know that this is the Duke responding to Lucio. The Duke is disguised as a friar and Lucio does not know he’s talking to the Duke. Lucio is saying some very uncomplimentary things (to say the least) about the Duke to the friar/Duke. To which the friar/Duke calmly responds, You do him wrong, surely. And then Lucio just doubles down on the slander. Oh my.

Well you may not believe this, but apparently Will's works have gone intergalactic. No, it's true. My associate and I were walking along, minding our own business. And then he said something about Darth Vader being an oversized asthmatic robot. All of a sudden these two guys appeared out of nowhere. They shoved me aside and you can see the surprise on my buddy's face as the one on the right pokes his finger into my buddy's chest and says 'You do him wrong, surely.' We were absolutely flabbergasted.

Good den, good den.

-Don Pedro

Measure For Measure                            Act V scene i, line 46

Apparently this is ‘good evening’. Don’t ask me what or where it comes from, because I don’t know.

This is a nice evening picture. 

Good den, good den.

Come, go we, then, together. [Exeunt]

-Troilus

Troilus And Cressida                        Act I scene i, line 117

There are only five words in this line, and there are four punctuation marks; three commas and a period. How is that even possible?

Come

Go we

Then

Together

I think it’s the ‘then’ being set apart that really throws me. But, well, I’m not sure. And don’t get wrong; I’m a big fan of the comma. A comma can go an awful long way in terms of adding clarity to a sentence, and I personally use a lot of commas. But three commas with five words?

 

This is the famous cat and the rat, caught and mummified in the Christ Church Cathedral organ in Dublin, Ireland. I doubt that either one of these two said 'Come, go we, then, together' before getting stuck in the organ. Nonetheless, they certainly went together.