SHAKESPEARE: THE MISSING LINES (2).
(Recently discovered and published here for the first time)
Friends Romans countrymen lend me your ears
and a cotton bud.
Is this a dagger I see before me, the handle before my hand?
No. it’s a frying pan - get on with the cooking.
If music be the food of love, play on
an organ – no not that one!
Shall I compare thee to a summer day?
Dry, hot and sweaty!
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
Oh heck !
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Author:
Michael Edwards (
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- Comment from author about the poem: Second selection plus the last of the series of prints.
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It is more of that unknown Wagadagga stuff Michael! Good fun writes.
Another intriguing print Michael.
Thanks Andy - my favourite is the 'Friends' one but I guess our American friends will know them better as Q-Tips
It makes me wonder why these missing lines were not searched for centuries ago, in Shakey's days, with their wit and wisdom!
Ah but they didn't have Google back then and The Antiques Road Show was in its infancy.
So thrilling to read these lines recently unearthed by your ingenuity dear Micheal - Shakespeare would turn over and smile could he read them in your fun-write. Great stuff.
Thanks Fay. They were found under a car park in Leicester along with some crooked bones although academics are divided on the authenticity of the last one: it is suggested that the word 'heck' wasn't in use in Shakey's time. 🙂 Thanks for looking in.
Oh these lines are wonderful! My favorite poem is "shall I compare thee to a summers day?" so that follow up line is in good fun, I'm sure. Actually all of these are quite good! Very nice print!
Pleased you didn't berate me for the connotations of No3 - last ones tomorrow.
Pipe organ or mouth organ ... err, harmonica ... both make for fine music. Clever writes, Michael!
Ah musical organ - now I get it - thanks as always louis
Shakespeare would laugh his skeleton off.
He would indeed - make no bones about it. Richard the third did and he was dead already !!
This is so hilarious and so realistic. Thank you for sharing it with us. Your painting, as always, beautiful.
Thank you so much on both counts - I do appreciate your comments.
Thanks MICHAEL ~ These are getting bluer & bluer ~ especially Nos. 3 & 5 ~ I'm surprised Cardinal Orchi didn't demand an 18 for innuendoes ! Can't wait for tomorrow ! Yours BRIAN. Your abstract is an exact painting of the referees box (in which I have sat !) and the track ~ in our local VELODROME !
Will they get bluer still - last batch tomorrow - promise!! Ta Brian
Oh heck, Michael, you did it again! This time you curved some the bard's missing lines in the painting as well as throwing us some curve balls in the poem.
You get a three chuckle for this from me!
Thanks Fred - glad you got a chuckle or three - also last painting of this type for a while.
Made me smile, good job
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