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I liked your quote from the Immortal Bard, so I searched his texts for clues to spooniness..
*ahem*
Comedy of Errors Act IV Scene III
Courtezan
- Your man and you are marvellous merry, sir.
- Will you go with me? We'll mend our dinner here?
DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
- Master, if you do, expect spoon-meat; or bespeak a
- long spoon.
ANTIPHOLUSOF SYRACUSE
- Why, Dromio? 60
DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
- Marry, he must have a long spoon that must eat with
- the devil.
ANTIPHOLUSOF SYRACUSE
- Avoid then, fiend! what tell'st thou me of supping?
- Thou art, as you are all, a sorceress:
- I conjure thee to leave me and be gone.
Henry VIII Act V Scene III
CRANMER The greatest monarch now alive may glory
- In such an honour: how may I deserve it
- That am a poor and humble subject to you?
KING HENRY VIII
- Come, come, my lord, you'ld spare your spoons: you 195
- shall have two noble partners with you; the old
- Duchess of Norfolk, and Lady Marquess Dorset: will
- these please you?
- Once more, my Lord of Winchester, I charge you,
- Embrace and love this man. 200
Act V Scene IV
Man
- What would you have me do?
Porter
- What should you do, but knock 'em down by the
- dozens? Is this Moorfields to muster in? or have
- we some strange Indian with the great tool come to 35
- court, the women so besiege us? Bless me, what a
- fry of fornication is at door! On my Christian
- conscience, this one christening will beget a
- thousand; here will be father, godfather, and all together.
Man
- The spoons will be the bigger, sir.
What can we deduce from this? That Shakespeare himself was spoon-obsessed, wanting bigger and longer spoons? I'm not certain what we can say of his works, but I'm sure theres a clue to the mystery of spooniness buried within...
Last edited by nazlfrag; 07-10-2006, 02:28 AM.
Reason: Where'd the spaces go?? >_<
Should mention I went against the spirit of the thread and pasted dry, verbatim quotes. I'm gonna try to find some analysis of them, but these are real quotes ^^
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