Politic with mine friend, smooth with mine enemy
5 o'clock, June 4, 2003
From the Abuse Your Readers By Making Use Of Your Blog As A Commonplace Book Department:
TOUCHSTONE: Therefore, you clown, abandon, — which is in the vulgar, leave, — the society, — which in the boorish is, company, — of this female, — which in the common is, woman; which together is, abandon the society of this female, or, clown, thou perishest; or, to thy better understanding, diest; or, to wit, I kill thee, make thee away, translate thy life into death, thy liberty into bondage. I will deal in poison with thee, or in bastinado, or in steel; I will bandy with thee in faction; I will o’errun thee with policy; I will kill thee a hundred and fifty ways: therefore tremble, and depart.
—— Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act V, Scene I
They just don’t make threats like that any more.
I have nothing substantive to say about this, but DAAAAAMN that's good writing.