Thank you, Christina! I was out of commission this past week, but catching up and finishing #AllsWell_2026 tonight. #Hamlet_2026 will be exciting; it gets better every time.

LAFEU

Mine eyes smell onions : I shall weep anon.
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Act V s3 (311-312)

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KING.
Let us from point to point this story know,
To make the even truth in pleasure flow.
. . .
All yet seems well, and if it end so meet,
The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet. [Flourish.]

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*meet: fittingly

Helena forgives, Bertram appreciates. 💍

#TheBard_ProblemPlays Day 81, 3/23- Act V s3 from 233

DIANA.
I have spoke the truth.

to

EPILOGUE [KING].
Ours be your patience then, and yours our parts;
Your gentle hands lend us, and take our hearts.

Fin.

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Hope to see y'all for #Hamlet_2026 on 3/27! 🎭

KING

Sir, for my thoughts, you have them ill to friend
Till your deeds gain them; fairer prove your honour
Than in my thought it lies!

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V,3,182-184
William Shakespeare

#TheBard_ProblemPlays Day 80, 3/22- Act V s3 from 130 "KING. I am wrapped in dismal thinkings" to 232,

DIANA.
I have spoke the truth.

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(1/2)

KING

I am not a day of season,
For thou mayst see a sunshine and a hail
In me at once. But to the brightest beams
Distracted clouds give way. So stand thou forth;
The time is fair again.
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Act V s3 (32-36)

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#TheBard_ProblemPlays Day 79, 3/21- Act V s3

Location. Rossillion.

KING.
We lost a jewel of her, and our esteem

to line 129,

BERTRAM.
Where yet she never was. [Exit, guarded.]

(1/2)

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KING

Let's take the instant by the forward top

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V,3,39

„The lock of hair on the forehead—the only place where one can seize the personified OPPORTUNITY or LUCK, which were symbolically depicted as a bald spot at the back of the head.“
Frank Günther (tr.)

“Truly, fortune’s displeasure is but sluttish, if it smell so strong, as thou speakest of: I will henceforth eat no fish of fortune’s buttering. Pr’ythee, allow the wind.”
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“That it will please you
To give this poor petition to the king,
And aid me with that store of power you have,
To come into his presence.”
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PAROLLES

. . . but I am now, sir, muddied in fortune’s mood, and smell somewhat strong of her strong displeasure.
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Act V s2 (3-4)
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PAROLLES
O my good lord, you were the first that found me.

LAFEW
Was I, in sooth? And I was the first that lost thee.

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V,2,41-43
William Shakespeare

#TheBard_ProblemPlays Day 78, 3/20-

Act V s1 "HELENA. But this exceeding posting day and night" to end of sc.;

Act V s2 "PAROLLES. Good Monsieur Lavatch, give my Lord Lafew this letter" to end of sc.,

PAROLLES.
I praise God for you. [Exeunt.]

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(1/2)

“his left cheek is a cheek of two pile and a half, but his right cheek is worn bare.”
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LAFEU

‘Twas a good lady, ‘twas a good lady: we may pick a thousand salads ere we light on such another herb.
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Act IV s5 (11-12)
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Mention of the Black Prince, Edward (1330-76), today, Act IV s5. #TheBard_ProblemPlays #AllsWell_2026

Oldest son of King Edward III, he was a valiant warrior & skilled diplomat who held out the promise of continuing his father’s rule over England and much of France. (1/2)

Folger Shakespeare site.

#TheBard_ProblemPlays Day 77, 3/19- Act IV s5

Loc. Rossillion.

LAFEW.
No, no, no, your son was misled with a snipped-taffeta fellow

to end of sc.,

LAVATCH.
Faith, there's a dozen of 'em, with delicate fine
hats, & most courteous feathers, which bow the
head & nod at every man.

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CLOWN
… the master I speak of ever keeps a good fire. But, sure, he is the prince of the world; let his nobility remain in's court. I am for the house with the narrow gate … and they'll be for the flowery way that leads to the broad gate and the great fire.

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IV,5,44-51

HELENA

But with the word the time will bring on summer,

. . . We must away;
Our wagon is prepared, and time revives us.
All’s well that ends well:
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Act IV s4 (31; 34-35)
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#TheBard_ProblemPlays Day 76, 3/18- Act IV s4

Location. Florence, the Widow's house.

HELENA.
That you may well perceive I have not wronged you

to end of sc.,

HELENA.
But with the word the time will bring on summer,
When briers shall have leaves as well as thorns
(1/2)

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“Who knows himself a braggart
Let him fear this: for it will come to pass,
That every braggart shall be found an ass.”
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PAROLLES

Simply the thing I am
Shall make me live.

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IV,321-322
William Shakespeare

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(Brain not working today...)

What up with Bertram and his disdain for cats?

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#TheBard_2026 Day 75, 3/17- Happy St. Patrick's Day!!

Act IV s3 from 238 "SECOND LORD. This is your devoted friend, sir" to end of sc.,

PAROLLES.
Safest in shame! Being fooled, by foolery thrive!
There's place and means for every man alive.
I'll after them.

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First Lord:
How mightily sometimes we make us comforts of our
losses!

Second Lord:
And how mightily some other times we drown our gain
in tears!

(IV.3.61-64)

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IV,3,216-219

FIRST SOLDIER [Reads]

„When he swears oaths, bid him drop gold, and take it;
After he scores he never pays the score.
Half-won is match well made; match, and well make it;
He ne'er pays after-debts; take it before.“

PAROLLES

My meaning in’t, I protest, was very honest in the behalf of the maid; for I knew the young Count to be a dangerous and lascivious boy, who is a WHALE to virginity and devours up all the fry it finds.
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Act IV s3 (196-199)
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