22 November 2003

Children In Some Kind


I don't know quite why, but I felt like posting these lines:

                           O you heavenly Charmers,
What things you make of us! For what we lacke
We laugh, for what we have, are sorry: still
Are children in some kind. Let us be thankefull
For that which is, and with you leave dispute
That are above our question. Let's goe off,
And beare us like the time.

      --- Theseus in Shakespeare's The Two Noble Kinsmen

These lines, by general consensus are actually Shakespeare's and not John Fletcher's, and there's a kind of wistful sense of personal departure to them. "Beare us like the time." Lovely.

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