"...and therefore welcome the sour cup of prosperity.
Affliction may one day smile again, and till
then, sit thee down, sorrow!"

-Costard, 'Love's Labour's Lost' 1:1:313-315

I ❤️

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Eight wild boars roasted whole at a breakfast—and but twelve persons there! Is this true?
Antony and Cleopatra - Act 2 Scene 2

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"Had you such leisure in the time of Death ... ?" Richard III (Act 1,Scene 4).
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“The confident and over lusty French” ~ Henry V (Act IV).

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"Had you not lately an intent,--speak truly,--
To go to Paris?" ~ All's Well That Ends Well (Act 1, Scene 3).

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"A famous rebel art thou."

HenryIV Pt2 4.3

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Almost forgot it's but here's the 3rd piece from my senior project. For the month of March, I of course had to feature Julius Caesar 🗡️🗡️🗡️

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“Two households, both alike in dignity
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean..

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🎼 "Dance Of The Knights" from "Romeo & Juliet" by Sergej Prokofiev https://t.co/PpW4glSvVV

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"Why, that's the way to fool their preparation, and to conquer their most absurd intents... " ~ Antony and Cleopatra - (Act 5, Scene 2).

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“Therein, ye gods, ye make the weak most strong;
Therein, ye gods, you tyrants do defeat.”
- Julius Caesar

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Yet I will try the last. Before my body
I throw my warlike shield. Lay on, Macduff,
And damned be him that first cries, “Hold, enough!”

Macbeth A5Sc8
Shakespeare



Illustrator: HC Selous
Engraver: Frederick Wentworth

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⏳🪨⌛️"Not marble nor the gilded monuments
Of princes shall outlive this pow'rful rhyme,
But you shall shine more bright..."

🕯️Sonnet 55

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"The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle. Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player ... " ~ Macbeth (Act5, Scene 5).

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"Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye…"
(Loves Labours Lost A2, S1)


(image: New York Public Library, 1868)

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“The sight of lovers feedeth those in love.” As You Like It, Act 3, Sc 4

A Dance in the Country, (detail) by Pierre Auguste Renoir, 1883 .

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“Maidens call it ‘love-in-Idleness’...
The juice of it on sleeping eyelids laid Will make or man or woman madly dote upon the next live creature that it sees.” A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act 2, Sc 1.
Also known as heart’s-ease, it is the wild pansy.
Img: CB

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So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart;
- Midsummer Night's Dream

[Hermaphroditus and Salmacis, C. Bertling 1897: beautiful son of Hermes & Aphrodite, w/ whom a naiad fell in love and prayed to be united forever; the gods merged their two forms into one]

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💘"Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind."💘

✨A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

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