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[or at least, I think.... though I suppose it could be the same day, but then this would need to be a very long day indeed... ]Armado is pining for love, and his page Moth is trying to cheer him up. Songs. Jokes. Nothing works. There's quite a bit of quick banter, punning, and some double entendre, with Moth's comic observations delivered to us as asides interspersed throughout. Armado decides to release Costard from his captivity, "enfreedoming" (III.i.121) the clown, and have him deliver to Jaquenetta, a love letter the Spaniard has composed. ... << MORE >>
I spoke it, tender juvenal, as a congruent epitheton appertaining to thy young days, which we may nominate "tender."Every phrase uttered is a conflagration borne of the purply-prosaic but so very poetical ardor rampaging in his ever pining breast.-- I.ii.13-15
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[now according to the character list and the stage direction, the King's name is Ferdinand, but that name is never used in dialog... so we'll just call him "the King" from here on out for the rest of the month... oh, yeah... and I'm going with Love's Labor's Lost instead of Love's Labour's Lost... 'cuz we're here in America, ya hear? anyway... ]
[so, when you think about it... the percentage of rhyme here is actually much higher... 130 out of the remaining 170... that's over three-quarters...]
[hmmmm, both comedies, as this one is... are we seeing a trend?]
[maybe in July of 212, when The Tempest is over, I'll hit some topics of choice/omission/obsession...]
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