Fair ladies mask’d are roses in their bud;
Dismask’d, their damask sweet commixture shown,
Are angels vailing clouds, or roses blown.
Category Archives: Shakespearean Sunday
Prairie Dog Performing Antony and Cleopatra
No, to my cabin.
These drums! these trumpets, flutes! what!
Let Neptune hear we bid a loud farewell
To these great fellows: sound and be hang’d, sound out!
Sound a flourish, with drums
Prairie Dog performing King John
Which trust accordingly, kind citizens,
And let us in, your king, whose labour’d spirits,
Forwearied in this action of swift speed,
Crave harbourage within your city walls.
Prairie Dogs Performing A Lover’s Complaint
Time had not scythed all that youth begun,
Nor youth all quit; but, spite of heaven’s fell rage,
Some beauty peep’d through lattice of sear’d age.
Prairie Dog performing Cymbeline
But up to the mountains!
This is not hunters’ language: he that strikes
The venison first shall be the lord o’ the feast;
To him the other two shall minister;
And we will fear no poison, which attends
In place of greater state. I’ll meet you in the valleys.
Prairie Dog performing Antony and Cleopatra
O, that I were
Upon the hill of Basan, to outroar
The horned herd! for I have savage cause;
And to proclaim it civilly, were like
A halter’d neck which does the hangman thank
For being yare about him.
Prairie Dog performing Romeo and Juliet
When griping grief the heart doth wound,
And doleful dumps the mind oppress
Prairie Dog performing Julius Caesar
Fly further off, my lord, fly further off;
Mark Antony is in your tents, my lord
Fly, therefore, noble Cassius, fly far off.
Meerkat performing Dr. Faustus
This is clearly one of the scenes missing from the surviving human copies of the work.
Meerkat performing Tamburlaine
We hear the Tartars and the eastern thieves,
Under the conduct of one Tamburlaine,
Presume a bickering with your emperor,
And think to rouse us from our dreadful siege
Of the famous Grecian Constantinople.
Prairie Dog performing Titus Andronicus
The hunt is up, the morn is bright and grey,
The fields are fragrant and the woods are green:
Prairie Dog performing As You Like It
Hang there, my verse, in witness of my love:
And thou, thrice-crowned queen of night, survey
With thy chaste eye, from thy pale sphere above
Prairie Dog performing Hamlet
He hath much land, and fertile: let a beast be lord of beasts, and his crib shall stand at the king’s mess: ’tis a chough; but, as I say, spacious in the possession of dirt.
Prairie Dog performing The Rape of Lucrece
At last it rains, and busy winds give o’er:
Then son and father weep with equal strife
Who should weep most, for daughter or for wife.
Prairie Dogs performing Winter’s Tale
By this we gather
You have tripp’d since.
Prairie Dogs performing Two Gentlemen of Verona
For that which now torments me to rehearse:
I kill’d a man, whose death I much repent;
But yet I slew him manfully in fight,
Without false vantage or base treachery.
Prairie Dog performing Merchant of Venice
The quality of mercy is not strain’d,
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest;
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes
Prairie Dogs performing King John
With whom yourself, myself and other lords,
If you think meet, this afternoon will post
To consummate this business happily.
Meerkat performing Jew of Malta
This, Barabas; since things are in thy power, I see no reason but of Malta’s wreck, nor hope of thee but extreme cruelty: nor fear I death, nor will I flatter thee.
Meerkat performing Massacre at Paris
“Now fals the star whose influence governes France, Whose light was deadly to the Protestants: Now must he fall and perish in his height.”