Beare on traitors and rugby players being adorable.

[charlie_cochrane]

Lovely article in the Telegraph today (which I can't find a link to) about the Lions players who have a farming interest and who've spent their bonuses on new trailors for their tractors. Can't imagine footballers doing that!

Beare is relating an adventure involving Will Shakespeare, Good Queen Bess, Kit Marlowe and a load of bad jokes. First bit to be found on the Lords of Aether site.

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[eglantine-br.livejournal.com]

I have groceries to get. Nasty tasks ahead, I am saving Beare on Marlowe, as a reward for my good behavior. I will be come in a few hours, and it is the first thing I am going to look for!

[charliecochrane.livejournal.com]

Don't get too excited. Kit makes a fleeting but telling appearance. There'll be more of him next time. (And very much inspired by your Kit fics.)

[eglantine-br.livejournal.com]

So foolish to fall in love with Kit. But I am smitten. He would certainly find me quite elderly-- I bet I would remind him of his mom. And he did not even 'like' women.

I cannot decide if I want to swoon at his feet, or feed him soup and keep him safe. Poor Kit. Have bought all the groceries in Brooklyn. (It would be easier to make list of what I did not buy.) Off to read your Beare now. He is delightful on his own merits, other misbehaving dudes are a plus!

[charliecochrane.livejournal.com]

Beare's a corker but I can't claim him as my own. He's an amalgam of so many comic characters of my youth.

I do not know enough about Marlowe, but he's a striking looking gent. I've visited the place he was christened.

[eglantine-br.livejournal.com]

Well, I am back. Really did laugh out loud. BTW, Kit Marlowe really was a choirboy! I think we are wrong to impute virtue to boys who sing.

(Not that I doubt Kit's virtue, he had a deep down moral quality that I believe in completely. It had not much at all to do with his sex life, or his church habits. It had to do with kindness and observation. It is left behind him like a fossil. In his writing.)

Now I have gone and made myself sad again. I do love him.

[charliecochrane.livejournal.com]

Choirboys are quite often right little tearaways. They just look angelic...

And talking of his writing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBxOsITRPeU

[eglantine-br.livejournal.com]

Straight to ipod!!

Do you think he said 'love' to rhyme with prove? And if so was it because he drew the middle sound out in love-- like Sean Bean?

[eglantine-br.livejournal.com]

I have a book with a picture of the base of font where he was presumably dampened.

(Reminds me of 'To say nothing of the dog' where they are all going back in time to look for the Bishops Bird Stump. Have you read that? Sad and funny.)

if I ever do get out your way I want to go to that church-- that street, and just kind of breathe...

[charliecochrane.livejournal.com]

We'll go together and have great larks.

Haven't read "To say nothing of the dog". :(

[charliecochrane.livejournal.com]

I think it did rhyme (rather than pararhyme). My hunch is that they both sounded a bit like "Tovey" pronounced as you can hear in this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUDAp1Ja66o

If you were in this here room I could say what I mean.

[eglantine-br.livejournal.com]

They still wear those robe things with a ruff. Do you suppose he did then?

I have been reading about their school-days. Leaving aside the issue of the beatings-- which everyone thought were so good for them-- they had long days. Pretty much 6 or 7 am to 5ish. With time off for lunch.

Teachers must have been worn out too, by the end of the day.

Kyd never did college he had a good grounding young though, he went to Merchant Taylors which was, like, down the street from him.

A world of little boys. It must have been so lively. Most kids around here walk to school, or take the city bus, or subway. There are few yellow school busses in NYC. Sometimes I see them playing and laughing on the way to school, with bookbags, and lunches, and I imagine the long ago past...

[charliecochrane.livejournal.com]

*nods* Kids here rarely take a school bus until they're 11, so the school run is a wonderful time.

I wonder what choirboys wore then? Can't think of any contemp type paintings featuring them.

[sandra-lindsey.livejournal.com]

I can't imagine football players studying for a medical degree at the same time as playing at an international level either. Rugby players are very much more on the same planet as the rest of us.

[charliecochrane.livejournal.com]

*nods* My Sal sees them out in the Diff quite often and says they're just one of the crowd...

[stevie-carroll.livejournal.com]

What else would rugby players spend their money on ;-)

Then again I've rugby tackled a fair few ewes in my time.

[charliecochrane.livejournal.com]

LOL You'd get on so well with the Youngs boys.

[eglantine-br.livejournal.com]

Whenever I see rugby players I am amazed by their good looks, but they all have totally ruined noses. They must just break the first week, and then again and again...

[charliecochrane.livejournal.com]

Wash your mouth out! How can either of these beautiful noses be so described?

http://www.setanta.com/ie/happy-zebo-ready-for-wales-test/

http://www.skysports.com/rugbyunion/match_preview/0,20244,11069_53851_1,00.html

[eglantine-br.livejournal.com]

Those are indeed two fine looking noses! And Nigel Owens has a nice nose too. The trouble with noses is that they stick out. Hard to keep them safe. But maybe, as you say, some have managed it.

[eglantine-br.livejournal.com]

Just read it again-- how did I miss the part where he is twirling his codpiece?? I want to see that!

[mylodon.livejournal.com]

I can't decide whether he's got his codpiece in his hand at this point or in situ...

[eglantine-br.livejournal.com]

Each of those images has it's own appeal...