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.

Parodying Shakespeare

(Stratford-upon-Avon.)

Mark Antony:
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him;
-copied from here.

David Falkayn:

"'I come to curry Caesarism, not to raze it.'"
-Poul Anderson, "The Trouble Twisters" IN Anderson, David Falkayn: Star Trader (Riverdale, NY, 2010), pp. 77-208 AT p. 155.

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
-copied from here.

" 'Uneasy hies tha head what caeres for clowns.' "
-copied from here.

If that's not clever, it'll do till the real clever comes along.

The Morning After II

A Midsummer Tempest, xiii.

See The Morning After.

I have quoted the Shakespearean parody:

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

- twice before. See here.

The full reference for the original line is:

Henry IV, Part 2: Act 3, scene 1, line 31. (See here.)

Valeria and Holger have told Rupert much about the seventeenth and subsequent centuries. The Old Phoenix landlord must have allowed this because he knew that it was permissible or appropriate that Rupert return to his seventeenth century with the information that they had imparted from alternative timelines:

regicide;
terror;
tyranny;

"'...those who claim to speak for the people standing on their backs to do it...'" (p. 108);
centuries of further regicides and tyrannies;
meanwhile, Charles II corrupted by years of exile;
the Restoration of the English monarchy;
Charles' merry but ruinous reign;
war against the Dutch;
the Dutch Raid on the Medway with a broom at the masthead;
the overthrow of the Stuarts.

Rupert will prevent all this in his timeline although, of course, neither he nor anyone else can prevent it in those timelines where it does occur. Regicide etc can be prevented only in timelines where they are prevented.