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.
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.
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...
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.
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...
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Date: 2013-06-28 04:05 pm (UTC)(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.
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Date: 2013-06-28 08:18 pm (UTC)And talking of his writing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBxOsITRPeU
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Date: 2013-06-28 08:28 pm (UTC)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?
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Date: 2013-06-28 08:35 pm (UTC)(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...
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Date: 2013-06-28 08:40 pm (UTC)Haven't read "To say nothing of the dog". :(
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Date: 2013-06-28 08:38 pm (UTC)If you were in this here room I could say what I mean.
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Date: 2013-06-29 02:40 pm (UTC)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...
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Date: 2013-06-29 08:04 pm (UTC)I wonder what choirboys wore then? Can't think of any contemp type paintings featuring them.