[Peace-discuss] Re: [Peace] Watch AOTA when the hurlyburly's done...

[John W.]

On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 11:03 AM, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at uiuc.edu> wrote:

We're both right (rare as that is)...


I don't get it.  Did Edward de Vere plagiarize Shakespeare, then?  Wouldn't
that have been kind of difficult to GET AWAY WITH?



> John W. wrote:


>  On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 9:11 PM, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at uiuc.edu<mailto:
>> galliher at uiuc.edu>> wrote:
>>
>>           A CONCLUDING COMMENT ON THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN
>>           (from sixteenth-century poet Edward de Vere)
>>
>>           You do look, my son, in a moved sort,
>>           As if you were dismayed: be cheerful, sir.
>>           Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
>>           As I foretold you, were all spirits and
>>           Are melted into air, into thin air:
>>           And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
>>           The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces,
>>           The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
>>           Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve
>>           And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
>>           Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
>>           As dreams are made on, and our little life
>>           Is rounded with a sleep...
>>
>>
>> What an uneducated fool I am!  All these years I thought that these lines
>> were spoken by Prospero in Shakespeare's "The Tempest"!  :-(
>>
>
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