# Shakespeare played by... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 24, 2008, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-played-by/454097 "2008-06-24T18:59:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2008, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-played-by/454097/41 "2008-06-25T23:24:43Z")
_I could be well moved, if I were as you: If I could pray to move, prayers would move me: But I am constant as the northern star, Of whose true-fix’d and resting quality There is no fellow in the firmament. The skies are painted with unnumber’d sparks, They are all fire and every one doth shine, But there’s but one in all doth hold his place: So in the world; 'tis furnish’d well with men, And men are flesh and blood, and apprehensive; Yet in the number I do know but one That unassailable holds on his rank, Unshaked of motion: and that I am he . . ._ John McCain ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2008, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-played-by/454097/42 "2008-06-25T23:31:09Z")
\*Be brave, then; for your captain is brave, and vows reformation. There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny: the three-hooped pot; shall have ten hoops and I will make it felony to drink small beer: all the realm shall be in common; and in Cheapside shall my palfrey go to grass: and when I am king, as king I will be . . . * * * . . . there shall be no money; all shall eat and drink on my score; and I will apparel them all in one livery, that they may agree like brothers and worship me their lord.\* Barack Obama ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2008, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-played-by/454097/43 "2008-06-25T23:37:49Z")
_This royal throne of kings, this scepter’d isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall, Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands, This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England . . ._ Sid Vicious ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2008, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-played-by/454097/44 "2008-06-25T23:46:51Z")
_. . . but that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison house, I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes like stars start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine . . ._ Salim Ahmed Hamdan ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2008, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-played-by/454097/45 "2008-06-26T03:26:42Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro] \*Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him. \* Mary Surratt [/QUOTE] Doesn’t that work better for Michael Vick? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2008, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-played-by/454097/46 "2008-06-26T04:38:14Z")
_An ’twere not as good a deed as drink, to turn true man and to leave these rogues, I am the veriest varlet that ever chewed with a tooth._ Scott McClellan ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2008, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-played-by/454097/47 "2008-06-26T12:34:12Z")
_The play’s the thing_–David Mamuth _That which we call a rose would still smell as sweet_–My first thought was “Gertrude Stein” ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2008, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-played-by/454097/48 "2008-06-26T12:35:48Z")
_. . .’tis no sin for a man to labour in his vocation._ Tony Soprano ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2008, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-played-by/454097/49 "2008-06-26T13:18:54Z")
[QUOTE=Kythereia] _The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose._ (regarding) Fred Phelps [/QUOTE] - it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.\* ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2008, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-played-by/454097/50 "2008-06-26T13:26:23Z")
_Tweaks me by the nose? gives me the lie i’ the throat, As deep as to the lungs? who does me this?_ Linda Lovelace ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2008, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-played-by/454097/51 "2008-07-01T01:38:03Z")
_but there’s no bottom, none, In my voluptuousness: your wives, your daughters, Your matrons and your maids, could not fill up The cistern of my lust._ Wilt Chamberlain ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f07891/32.png) [@Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Plastic_Ninja)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-played-by/454097/52 "2008-10-01T23:25:14Z")
_First, as you know, my house within the city Is richly furnished with plate and gold Basins and ewers to lave her dainty hands My hangings all of Tyrian tapestry In ivory coffers have I stored my crowns In cypress chests my arras counterpoints Costly apparel, tents, and canopies Fine linens, Turkey cushions bossed with pearl Valance of Venice gold in needlework Pewter and brass, and all other things that belong To house or housekeeping: then, at my farm, I have a hundred milch-kine to the pail, Six score fat oxen standing in my stalls And all things answerable to this portion. Myself am struck in years, I must confess; And if I die tomorrow, this is hers, If whilst I live she will be only mine._ Howard Marshall II (Above is from memory, so it might be a little shaky. Part of my practice for rehearsal tonight…) ---
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2008, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-played-by/454097/53 "2008-10-02T00:28:45Z")
_“Let me have men about me that are fat, sleek headed men that sleep o’ the night.”_ Mrs. Karl Rove _“It was Greek to me.”_ Jackie Onassis ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2008, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-played-by/454097/54 "2008-10-04T16:18:47Z")
“Thou know’st that all my fortunes are at sea/ Neither have I money nor commodity/ To raise a present sum; therefore go forth/ Try what my credit in Venice can do/ That shall be rack’d, even to the uttermost/ To furnish thee to Belmont, to fair Portia.” -Antonio, I.i.177. – AIG CEO “This first, of gold, who this inscription bears,/ ‘Who chooseth me shall gain what many men desire’/ The second, silver, which this promise carries/ ‘Who chooseth me shall get as much as he deserves’? This third, dull lead, with warning all as blunt/ ‘Who chooseth me must give and hazard all he hath.’” -Prince of Morocco, II.vii.3. – Wachovia CEO “Nay, take my life and all, pardon not that/ You take my house when you do take the prop/ That doth sustain my house; you take my life/ When you do take the means whereby I live.” -Shylock, Iv.i.374. – Joe Schmo, U.S.A., Balloon mortgage holder “This house, these servants, and this same myself/ are yours-my Lord’s- I give thim with this ring/ Which when you part from, lose, or give away/ Let it presage the ruin of your love/ And be my vantage to exclaim on you.” -Portia, III.ii.170. – Ditto ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2008, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-played-by/454097/55 "2008-10-04T16:19:54Z")
“Thou know’st that all my fortunes are at sea/ Neither have I money nor commodity/ To raise a present sum; therefore go forth/ Try what my credit in Venice can do/ That shall be rack’d, even to the uttermost/ To furnish thee to Belmont, to fair Portia.” -Antonio, I.i.177. – AIG CEO “This first, of gold, who this inscription bears,/ ‘Who chooseth me shall gain what many men desire’/ The second, silver, which this promise carries/ ‘Who chooseth me shall get as much as he deserves’? This third, dull lead, with warning all as blunt/ ‘Who chooseth me must give and hazard all he hath.’” -Prince of Morocco, II.vii.3. – Wachovia CEO “Nay, take my life and all, pardon not that/ You take my house when you do take the prop/ That doth sustain my house; you take my life/ When you do take the means whereby I live.” -Shylock, Iv.i.374. – Joe Schmo, U.S.A., Balloon mortgage holder “This house, these servants, and this same myself/ are yours-my Lord’s- I give them with this ring/ Which when you part from, lose, or give away/ Let it presage the ruin of your love/ And be my vantage to exclaim on you.” -Portia, III.ii.170. – Ditto ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2008, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-played-by/454097/56 "2008-10-04T16:33:03Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > _I will be master of what is mine own: > She is my goods, my chattels; she is my house, > My household stuff, my field, my barn, > My horse, my ox, my ass, my any thing._ > O.J. Simpson \*“Come, let’s away to prison; We two alone will sing like birds I’ th’ cage.” - ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2008, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-played-by/454097/57 "2008-10-04T16:44:51Z")
_What have we here? a man or a fish?_ Michael Phelps ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2008, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-played-by/454097/58 "2008-10-06T16:25:42Z")
_O, that this too too solid flesh would melt Thaw and resolve itself into a dew!_ - Richard Simmons [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-played-by/454097.md?page=2)