March 3, 2005

Something Random: Today's Bard

Here:
"LADY PERCY
Then should you be nothing but musical for you are altogether governed by humours. Lie still, ye thief, and hear the lady sing in Welsh.

HOTSPUR
I had rather hear Lady, my brach, howl in Irish.

LADY PERCY
Wouldst thou have thy head broken?

HOTSPUR
No.

LADY PERCY
Then be still.

A 'brach" is a "bitch."

Don't know why this stuck in my head from 10th grade English. "Random," as my daughter would say.

Things haven't changed much. I'd say what Hotspur says here, and my wife would shut me up as Lady Percy does here.

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