# Brush up your Shakespeare (a game) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 26, 2003, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brush-up-your-shakespeare-a-game/164330 "2003-03-26T17:30:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Simbelmyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Simbelmyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simbelmyne)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2003, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brush-up-your-shakespeare-a-game/164330/41 "2003-03-27T16:10:37Z")
“I have drunk, and seen the spider.” ---
**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2003, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brush-up-your-shakespeare-a-game/164330/42 "2003-03-27T16:54:14Z")
What, did I stump everyone with my quote? Too obscure for the likes of you, you eaters of broken meats? Ha! (Come on, damnit, rise to my taunting) ---
**Author:** ![ArrMatey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrmatey/32/3522_2.png) [@ArrMatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArrMatey)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2003, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brush-up-your-shakespeare-a-game/164330/43 "2003-03-27T18:04:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by gallows fodder \* > \*\*What, did I stump everyone with my quote? Too obscure for the likes of you, you eaters of broken meats? Ha! > > (Come on, damnit, rise to my taunting) \*\* Two Gentlemen of Verona, IIRC, but I don’t remember who said it. Do I get half credit? Hrm. Let’s see, a short one for half credit… “The wills above be done! but I would fain die a dry death.” ---
**Author:** ![Greg\_Charles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2003, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brush-up-your-shakespeare-a-game/164330/44 "2003-03-27T21:58:26Z")
Wow, this is a hard game! You’re all blowing me away. The only reason I know this one is I got out the Tempest to look at some of the earlier quotes, and this one is on the first page, spoken by Gonzalo. Here’s something from one I saw performed last summer: She sings like one immortal, and she dances As goddess-like to her admired lays ---
**Author:** ![Katisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bcef8e/32.png) [@Katisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katisha)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2003, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brush-up-your-shakespeare-a-game/164330/45 "2003-03-28T00:55:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Simbelmyne \* > \*\*“I have drunk, and seen the spider.” \*\* That’s _Winter’s Tale_ – Leontes suspects Hermione of infidelity. “The dangers of the days but newly gone, Whose memory is written on the earth With yet appearing blood, and the examples Of every minute’s instance, present now, Hath put us in these ill-beseeming arms, Not to break peace or any branch of it, But to establish here a peace indeed, Concurring both in name and quality.” ---
**Author:** ![Greg\_Charles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2003, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brush-up-your-shakespeare-a-game/164330/46 "2003-03-28T23:12:20Z")
Hey Katisha, no fair, you skipped mine! (Nice shoulder blade though.) Sadly, I have no idea where your quotation comes from. However, I do know “Brush Up Your Shakespeare” comes from Cole Porter’s “Kiss Me Kate”. That should be worth something! ---
**Author:** ![Greg\_Charles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2003, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brush-up-your-shakespeare-a-game/164330/47 "2003-03-28T23:17:44Z")
It suddenly strikes me that my picking out allusions to two different musicals\* may give people the wrong impression of me. Don’t be fooled; I’m all man! In fact, if there were a smiley with a mustache and Stetson hat, I’d use it right here. - The more oblique one being to “The Mikado”. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2003, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brush-up-your-shakespeare-a-game/164330/48 "2003-03-28T23:39:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Katisha \* > “The dangers of the days but newly gone, > Whose memory is written on the earth > With yet appearing blood, and the examples > Of every minute’s instance, present now, > Hath put us in these ill-beseeming arms, > Not to break peace or any branch of it, > But to establish here a peace indeed, > Concurring both in name and quality.” _Henry IV, Part II_. The Archbishop of York. Next up: > [@](#): > > He does it with a better grace, but I do it more natural. ---
**Author:** ![Tenebras](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/977dab/32.png) [@Tenebras](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tenebras)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2003, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brush-up-your-shakespeare-a-game/164330/49 "2003-03-29T00:09:49Z")
**better grace** is, I think, Twelfth Night. If so, I give thee: Angels and ministers of grace, defend us! ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2003, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brush-up-your-shakespeare-a-game/164330/50 "2003-03-29T01:21:57Z")
_Hamlet_, when Hamlet sees the ghost for the first time. One that I used as a sig line for a while, years ago before I got too lazy to do sig lines: “I can call spirits from the vasty deep.” “Why, so can I, or so can any man, But will they come when you do call for them?” ---
**Author:** ![Simbelmyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Simbelmyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simbelmyne)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2003, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brush-up-your-shakespeare-a-game/164330/51 "2003-03-29T01:46:32Z")
“I can call spirits from the vasty deep.” “Why, so can I, or so can any man, But will they come when you do call for them?” Fretful Porpentine, that is the best screenname I ever saw. “What shall he have that killed the deer? His leather skin and horns to wear. Then sing him home: Take thou no scorn to wear the horn, It was a crest ere thou wast born; Thy father?s father wore it, and thy father bore it. The horn, the horn, the lusty horn is not a thing to laugh to scorn.” ---
**Author:** ![Katisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bcef8e/32.png) [@Katisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katisha)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2003, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brush-up-your-shakespeare-a-game/164330/52 "2003-03-29T01:49:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fretful Porpentine \* > \*\*“I can call spirits from the vasty deep.” > “Why, so can I, or so can any man, > But will they come when you do call for them?” \*\* Oh, that’s a personal favorite of mine! _1 Henry IV_ – Hotspur and Glendower engage in a pissing match. 😉 And **Greg** , I’m afraid I’m quite stumped on yours, unless it’s Florizel in _Winter’s Tale._ And I have a left elbow people come miles to see… 😉 Here’s Shakespeare for the kinky – “That is, were I under the terms of death, The impression of keen whips I’d wear as rubies, And strip myself to death, as to a bed That longing have been sick for, ere I’d yield My body up to shame.” ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2003, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brush-up-your-shakespeare-a-game/164330/53 "2003-03-29T01:57:51Z")
> [@](#): > > Fretful Porpentine, that is the best screenname I ever saw. Why, thank you! > [@](#): > > “What shall he have that killed the deer? > His leather skin and horns to wear. > Then sing him home: > Take thou no scorn to wear the horn, > It was a crest ere thou wast born; > Thy father?s father wore it, > and thy father bore it. > The horn, the horn, the lusty horn > is not a thing to laugh to scorn.” _As You Like It_, but I’m not sure who sings it. “Noblest of men, woo’t die? Hast thou no care of me? shall I abide In this dull world, which in thy absence is No better than a sty? O, see, my women, The crown o’the earth doth melt. My lord! O, wither’d is the garland of the war, The soldier’s pole is fall’n: young boys and girls Are level now with men; the odds is gone, And there is nothing left remarkable Beneath the visiting moon.” ---
**Author:** ![Simbelmyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Simbelmyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simbelmyne)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2003, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brush-up-your-shakespeare-a-game/164330/54 "2003-03-29T02:03:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fretful Porpentine \* > \*\*Why, thank you! > > _As You Like It_, but I’m not sure who sings it. > > “Noblest of men, woo’t die? > Hast thou no care of me? shall I abide > In this dull world, which in thy absence is > No better than a sty? O, see, my women, > The crown o’the earth doth melt. My lord! > O, wither’d is the garland of the war, > The soldier’s pole is fall’n: young boys and girls > Are level now with men; the odds is gone, > And there is nothing left remarkable > Beneath the visiting moon.” \*\* Isn’t that Cleopatra over Anthony? “Thou wilt lie upon the wings of night Whiter than new snow on a raven?s back.” ---
**Author:** ![Simbelmyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Simbelmyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simbelmyne)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2003, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brush-up-your-shakespeare-a-game/164330/55 "2003-03-29T02:13:17Z")
nope. I’m wrong. nevermind ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2003, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brush-up-your-shakespeare-a-game/164330/56 "2003-03-29T03:07:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Greg Charles \* > \*\*She sings like one immortal, and she dances > As goddess-like to her admired lays \*\* But is it Shakespeare? It’s not in the Folio: _Pericles, Prince of Tyre_, Act V, Prologue. Here’s mine: “The sense of death is most in apprehension, And the poor beetle that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies.” ---
**Author:** ![Katisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bcef8e/32.png) [@Katisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katisha)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2003, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brush-up-your-shakespeare-a-game/164330/57 "2003-03-29T07:29:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Simbelmyne \* > \*\*nope. I’m wrong. nevermind \*\* Actually, I believe you’re right! Yours is Juliet, anticipating her wedding night, and **Northern Piper** ’s sounds like it might possibly be from _Measure for Measure._ And I’ll point out that nobody’s guessed the one in my last post! ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2003, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brush-up-your-shakespeare-a-game/164330/58 "2003-03-29T13:09:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Katisha \* > \*\*Here’s Shakespeare for the kinky – > > “That is, were I under the terms of death, > The impression of keen whips I’d wear as rubies, > And strip myself to death, as to a bed > That longing have been sick for, ere I’d yield > My body up to shame.” \*\* We seem to be delving into the same play, **Katisha** - yours is Isabel rebuffing Angelo’s attempt on her virtue in _Measure for Measure_, Act II, sc. iv, 100-104. Mine is Isabel to Claudio in the very next scene (Act III, sc. i, 77-80), telling him to bear up and be a man at his death. Here’s my next one, just a shorty: who was the “snapper-up of unconsidered trifles”? ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2003, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brush-up-your-shakespeare-a-game/164330/59 "2003-03-29T14:52:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Simbelmyne \* > \*\*nope. I’m wrong. nevermind \*\* No, you’re right. ---
**Author:** ![Simbelmyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Simbelmyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simbelmyne)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2003, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brush-up-your-shakespeare-a-game/164330/60 "2003-03-29T16:05:03Z")
“snapper-up of unconsidered trifles” Autolycus from Winters Tale “They lie deadly that tell you you have good faces.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brush-up-your-shakespeare-a-game/164330.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brush-up-your-shakespeare-a-game/164330.md?page=4)