SPRING.
When daisies pied and violets blue
And lady-smocks all silver-white
And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue
Do paint the meadows with delight,
Love's Labour's Lost [V, 2]

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"The spring is near when green geese are a-breeding." ~ Love's Labour's Lost (A1,S1).

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✨🏹✨"The moon, like to a silver bow new bent in heaven."

🌙A Midsummer Night's Dream.

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"Inquire at London, ’mongst the taverns there,
For there, they say, he daily doth frequent,
With unrestrained loose companions"

Richard II, Act 5, Scene 3
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Image: Tavern Interior by Thomas Rowlandson, c.1810-1815.

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Tom Hiddleston as Henry V. by el Artista Plástico y Heráldico Victor M. Martinez. Dibujo 28x22 cms, patrocine y apoye y mi Obra,

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O god, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!

Othello, Act 2, Scene 3


Image: Alehouse Politicians by Thomas Rowlandson, 1785-1790.

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"Good company, good wine, good welcome can make good people."

- Henry VIII, William Shakespeare

"I hope that bottle isn't from Mr. Cregg, Captain!"
(I decided to add a little silliness of my own 😉😎🏴‍☠️ )

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PORTER: drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things.
MACDUFF: What three things does drink especially provoke?
PORTER: Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine.

Macbeth, Act 2, Scene 3


Image: Birmingham Bag Man, Edward Hedges Cornhill, 1792.

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"He was a man
Of an unbounded stomach"

Henry VIII, Act 4, Scene 2
BEARDS, BELLIES & BEERS

Image: Bath Beau and Country Beau by Thomas Rowlandson, c. 1788-1790.

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"Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear"

~Shakespeare

Illustration;Norman Mills Price.#ShakespeareSunday .

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“[...] -What are these,
So withered, and so wild in their attire,
That look not like th'inhabitants o'th' earth
And yet are on't?...
You should be women,
And yet your beards forbid me to interpret
That you are so.” Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 3

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“Indeed, he looks younger than he did, by the loss of a beard.”

Much Ado About Nothing [III, 2]

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Let's all cry, "peace, liberty, and freedom!"
(Julius Caesar 3.1.111)

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Let's all cry "Peace, freedom and liberty!"
Julius Caesar
Act III Scene 1.

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"The powers of us may serve so great a day" ~ Henry IV, Pt I (A4,S1)
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You have seen sunshine and rain at once: her smiles and tears were like, a better way.
King Lear Act 4 Scene 3

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"What a frosty-spirited rogue is this ...!" ~ Henry IV Pt1 (A2,S3).

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… joy and fresh days of love
Accompany your hearts!

- Midsummer Night's Dream [V, 1]

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"If circumstances lead me, I will find, where the truth is hid ..." ~ Hamlet (A2,S2).

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“When my love swears that she is made of truth...” Sonnet 138


Rainbow goddess Iris conveyed water to Olympus from the River Styx whenever the Greek gods took solemn oaths. If they lied the water would make them sleep for a year.

Image: Arthur Rackham

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