Saturday, 1 September 2012

A Midsummer Tempest XI

Now this really is clever. In Poul Anderson's A Midsummer Tempest (London, 1975), this sentence:

" 'Uneasy hies tha head what caeres for clowns.' " (p. 107)

not only parodies a famous Shakespeare quotation:

"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown." (Henry IV, Part II, Act 3, Scene 1)

but also rhymes three times with it:

lies, hies; 
wears, "caeres";
crowns, clowns.

There will be more.

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