The perfect Shakespeare play for this week — which as I write has seen snow, rain and sleet as well as sun — seems to be “A Midsummer-Night’s Dream.” William Shakespeare (1564-1616) seems rarely to have written anything so romantic and fun. Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations has several quotations from the play, such as these:
“The course of true love never did run smooth.”
— Act I, Scene 1
(Never, even back then… oh well!)
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is wing’d Cupid painted blind.”
— Act I, Scene 1
“It is not night when I do see your face.”
— Act II, Scene 1
And, perhaps, the all-purpose modern quote:
“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”
— Act III, Scene 2
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Knowing your love of hockey, I'm not surprised you end with a Puck.
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