mother, dog lover, teacher, former lawyer, opera, literature. Every translation from Italian is my own. ShakespeareSunday and English are my only addictions .
#ShakespeareSunday “Don Pedro: ... to be merry best becomes you, for out o’ question, you were born in a merry hour.
Beatrice: No, sure, my lord, my mother cried; but then
there was a star danced, and under that was I born. MAAN II,1
#ShakespeareSunday “"Crabbed age and youth cannot live together: Youth is full of pleasance, age is full of care; Youth like summer morn, age like winter weather" - The Passionate Pilgrim
#ShakespeareSunday “We are but warriors for the working-day;
Our gayness and our gilt are all besmirch'd
With rainy marching in the painful field;
There's not a piece of feather in our host” Henry V act 4, 3
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“I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
Why, so can I; or so can any man:
But will they come when you do call for them ? “ Henry IV, p. A III, 1
Henry V [I, 2] 👑Henry V. 🏓
'And tell the pleasant prince this mock of his hath turned his balls to gun-stones; and his soul shall stand sore charged for the wasteful vengeance that shall fly with them' 🎾
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#ShakespeareSunday “You are right, justice, and you weigh this well.
Therefore still bear the balance and the sword.
And I do wish your honors may increase
Till you do live to see a son of mine
Offend you and obey you as I did.” Henry IV p. 2 V,2
#ShakespeareSunday “"The childing autumn, angry winter, change Their wonted liveries, and the mazed world, By their increase, now knows not which is which." A Midsummer Night's Dream, II,1
#ShakespeareSunday “Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drench'd our steeples, drown'd the cocks!" King Lear III,2