This was the most unkindest cut of all.
For when the noble Caesar saw him stab,
Ingratitude, more strong than traitors’ arms,
Quite vanquished him.
***
Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove.
***
If you prick us, do we not bleed?
***
I’ll not budge an inch.
***
Villain, what hast thou done?
That which thou canst not undo.
***
Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin.
O horrible, O horrible, most horrible!
***
Happy in that we are not overhappy; on Fortune’s cap we are not the very button.
***
‘Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.
***
Let me be cruel, not unnatural;
I will speak daggers to her, but use none.
***
What if this cursed hand
Were thicker than itself with brother’s blood, —
Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens
To wash it white as snow?
***
Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.
***
I saw young Harry, with his beaver on,
His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm’d
***
Honour pricks me on. Yea, but
how if honour prick me off when I come
on? How then? Can honour set to a leg?
No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound?
No. Honour hath no skill in surgery, then?
No.
Tags: circumcision, playful takes on the issues, shakespeare
Well, I’m convinced.
My lit prof spouse has just been sent off to campus giggling, thanks to you.
“A pound of flesh? Well now you’re just exaggerating.”
so help me god if i get eighty comments from guest accounts here to talk Very Seriously About Circumcision*
*I do not personally think routine infant circumcision is a great idea please do not email me*
Anti-semite!
Oh dear God, I used to work for [health website redacted] and the people with opinions about circumcision were more fanatical and prolific than the anti-vaxxers AND THAT IS REALLY SAYING SOMETHING.
(To say nothing of the Shakespeare didn’t write Shakespeare conspiracy theorists.)
I think you mean the Earl of Oxford was an anti-circumcision activist. The illiterate patsy Billy of Stratford-upon-Avon spent most of his freetime doing back alley circumcisions upon trembling men, hence his appellation “Shakes Spear.”
*standing ovation*
Y E S
“Ay, ay, a scratch, a scratch! is not so deep as a well nor so wide as a church-door, but ’tis enough, ’twill serve. Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man.”
Remember, they never say where the scratch was …
“The course of true love never did run smooth.”
*continued ovation through your curtain call*
(To say nothing of the Shakespeare didn't write Shakespeare conspiracy theorists.)
And all the budding honours on thy crest
I’ll crop, to make a garland for my head.
!!!
Methinks this is all much ado about nothing.
Y E S
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I must be cruel only to be kind;
Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.
I must be cruel only to be kind;
Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.
The dirty-joke pedant in my would like to point out that “Villain, what hast thou done? / That which thou canst not undo” is one half of a really great Your Mom joke.
The dirty-joke pedant in my would like to point out that "Villain, what hast thou done? / That which thou canst not undo" is one half of a really great Your Mom joke.
Such great stuff, really enjoyed Xhuteq’s Labyrinth ‘Thread of Life’, so much fun to read.