Sir Malachi Shelgrave:
"'There goes a daybreak wide across the world
"'Which forces pretty stars to flee our sight.
"But oh, those stars were shining infamous
"'Within that chamber which a tyrant kept!
"''Tis pity that you fight for fading night.'" (p. 13)
(Shelgrave has to add a political point.)
But look, the morn, in russet mantle clad,
Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastward hill.
Those lines stayed in my memory when we saw Laurence Olivier's Hamlet at school in the 1960s.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
You are causing me to think I should regret the lack of interest I've had in Shakespeare's plays! (Smiles)
Ad astra! Sean
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