"We have here recovered the most dangerous
piece of lechery that ever was known
in the Commonwealth"

Much Ado About Nothing, Act III, Scene 3, Lines 160-162.




Editorial note: The title of the play may be inapt, but the lines are highly appropriate. This guy deserves a suitably Elizabethan-era punishment...

"For what thou professest, a baboon, could he speak,
Would own a name too dear."

Pericles, Act IV, Scene 6, Lines 177-178.

"By the fires of Heaven, I'll leave the foe
And make my wars on you."

Coriolanus, Act I, Scene 4, Lines 39-40.

"Nothing but lechery..."

Troilus And Cressida, Act V, Scene 1, Line 97.

"His speech was like a tangled chain; nothing impaired
but all disordered."

A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act V, Scene 1, Lines 124-125.

Will Shakespeare is currently in negotiations to buy Blackfriars Theatre, to give The King's Men acting company an indoor venue for winter performances. He was unable to furnish me with a quote for the weekend.

Plus, I had to work at the clinic this weekend. Last minute substitution for one of my colleagues. It wasn't too bad for a Saturday. I gave a newly-diagnosed cancer patient something for the pain. And I had a facepalm 15 minutes or so trying to convince a panicky first-time mother that her perfectly healthy little angel was all right, and that 97.6F is NOT a fever...

Next weekend, William Shakespeare's Thought For The Day will return!


"I'll be back..."

"What impossible matter will he make easy next?"

The Tempest, Act II, Scene 1, Line 85.

"I hear a tongue, shriller than all the music..."

Julius Caesar, Act I, Scene 2, Line 19.

"...worse than the great'st infection that
e'er was heard or read!"

The Winter's Tale, Act I, Scene 2, Lines 423-424.

"This is a child, a silly dwarf!
This weak and writhled shrimp!"

Henry VI, Part I, Act II, Scene 3, Lines 21-22

"I do suspect thee very grievously."

King John, Act IV, Scene 3, Line 134.

"Take not that little less than little wit
from them that they have;
which short-armed ignorance itself knows
is so abundant scarce."

Troilus And Cressida, Act II, Scene 3, Lines 13-16.

"The grave doth gape
For thee thrice wider than for other men."

Henry IV, Part 2, Act V, Scene 5, Lines 53-54.

"There's no more faith in thee
Than in a stewed prune."

Henry IV, Part I, Act III, Scene 3, Lines 110-111.

"I can compare our rich misers to nothing so fitly as to a
whale: he plays and tumbles, driving the poor fry before
him, and at last devours them all at a mouthful."

Pericles, Act II, Scene 1, Lines 29-31.