Stump Art

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Can we stump Art? Post a random subject and let's see whether Art can relate something in that post to Shakespeare. (My money's on Art!)

Posts from another thread here just to kick things off.

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Fantastic new video of an oarfish, rarely seen alive and well. Usually when they are spotted they dying at the surface or already washed up dead. It hangs vertically in the depths and uses its immense dorsal fin to swim up and down.

[b][color=#0000FF][size=125]United States servicemen holding a 7 meter Giant Oarfish,[/size] found washed up on the shore near San Diego, California in 1996.[/color][/b]

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[b][color=#0000FF]William, an oafish country boy[/color][/b]

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<<Touchstone is a fictional character in Shakespeare's play As You Like It. Touchstone is the court jester of duke Frederick, the usurper's court. Throughout the play he comments on the other characters and thus contributes to a better understanding of the play. Touchstone falls in love with a dull-witted goat girl named Audrey. William, an oafish country boy, makes clumsy attempts to woo her as well, but is driven off by Touchstone, who threatens to kill him "a hundred and fifty ways.">>

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[b][color=#0000FF]Micky Rooney as Puck, or Robin Goodfellow, a Fairy A Midsummer Night's Dream (MGM, 1935)[/color][/b]

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I must say the oarfish is kinda cool. But watching it go up and down, up and down, up and down, up and down, up and down, up and down, up and down, up and down, up and down, up and down, is kinda boring, like Shakespeare.

[list]A Midsummer Night's Dream
. Act 3, Scene 2[/list]
PUCK: Up and down, up and down,
[list] I will lead them up and down:
I am fear'd in field and town:
Goblin, lead them up and down.[/list][/color][/i]

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Can we stump Art? Post a random subject and let's see whether
Art can relate something in that post to Shakespeare. (My money's on Art!)

• • Titus Andronicus Act 2, Scene 4
  CHIRON: Write down thy mind, bewray thy meaning so,
  • An if thy stumps will let thee play the scribe.
  • • Act 5, Scene 2
  TITUS ANDRONICUS: I am not mad; I know thee well enough:
  • Witness this wretched stump:

[geckzilla]

Do you think Shakespeare could have divided an ellipse into exactly equal area pie slices from one of the foci?

[stephen63]

Was dritto tondo Shakespeare's preferred cut?

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Do you think Shakespeare could have divided an ellipse into exactly equal area pie slices from one of the foci?

Was dritto tondo Shakespeare's preferred cut?

• The most unkindest cut of all
  
  • Titus Andronicus Act 5, Scene 3

TITUS ANDRONICUS: They [i.e., the foci] are both, baked in that pie;

• Whereof their mother [i.e., geckzilla] daintily hath fed,
  Eating the flesh that she herself hath bred.
  'Tis true, 'tis true; witness my knife's sharp point:

• A PERSONAL VOYAGE -- HARMONY OF THE WORLDS by Carl Sagan

<<Astronomers and astrologers were not always so distinct. For most of human history the one encompassed the other. But there came a time when astronomy escaped from the confines of astrology. The two traditions began to diverge in the life and mind of Johannes Kepler. It was he who demystified the heavens by discovering that a physical force lay behind the motions of the planets. He was the first astrophysicist and the last scientific astrologer.>>

<<According to historian James Connor, Kepler was familiar with theatre; his frail form well applied to playing the parts of girls.>>

The Astronomy of Shakespeare
by Elizabeth Howell on February 17, 2013

<<With all this talk lately of rocks whizzing by Earth (or crashing through the atmosphere), it’s remarkable that we didn’t even know of space rocks a few centuries ago. The first asteroid, 1 Ceres, was discovered in 1801.

Dial back a few centuries, and we were still in the realm of a perfect universe with the Earth at the center. William Shakespeare’s (1564-1616) plays are full of these references. Universe Today recently stumbled across a 1964 Irish Astronomical Journal paper replete with examples.

Shakespeare was born about 20 years after Nicolaus Copernicus, whose book De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres) laid out the case for the Sun-centered solar system. It took a while for Copernicus’ theories to take hold, however.

While bearing in mind that Shakespeare often wrote about historical personages, one passage from Troilus and Cressida demonstrates an example of the characters speaking of the Sun following the other planets in circles around the Earth.

• The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre,
  Observe degree, priority and place.
  Insisture, course, proportion, season, form,
  Office, and custom, in all line of order:
  And therefore is the glorious planet Sol
  In noble eminence enthroned and sphered
  Amidst the other …

An Earth-centered solar system had its problems when predicting the paths of the planets. Astronomers couldn’t figure out why Mars reversed in its path in the sky, for example.

The real explanation is the Earth “catching up” and passing Mars in its orbit, but astronomers in Shakespeare’s time commonly used “epicycles” (small circles in a planet’s orbit) to explain what was going on. Shakespeare wrote about this problem in Henry VI:

• Mars his true moving, even as in the heavens,
  So in the earth, to this day is not known.

However, the Bard displayed a more modern understanding of the Moon’s movement around the Earth, the paper points out. The Moon’s distance varies in its orbit, a fact spoken about in Othello, although note that Shakespeare attributes madness to the moon’s movements:

• It is the very error of the moon;
  She comes more near the earth than she was wont
  And makes men mad.

For more examples — including what Shakespeare thought about astrology — you can check out the paper here.>>

[Beyond]

Will this stump art Stump Art

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[BMAONE23]

As throne appearance goes
I see King Lear fast approaching

[Beyond]

Well, i see that stump art was too easy.
I was going to post a picture of a bumble bee on a dandelion, but figured that would be ridiculously easy.
So here's another stump art to try and Stump Art.

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Well, i see that stump art was too easy.
I was going to post a picture of a bumble bee on a dandelion, but figured that would be ridiculously easy.
So here's another stump art to try and Stump Art.

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The Phoenix "AND TURTLE"
(Published in 1601 in Robert Chester's "Loves Martyr.")

"E(arl of) RUTLAND" anagram of "AND TURTLE"
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http://shakespeare-w.com/english/shakes ... oenix.html
.
. Let the bird of loudest lay,
. On the sole Arabian tree,
. Herald sad and trumpet be,
. To whose sound cha(S)te wings obey.
. But tho(U) shrieking harbinge(R),
. Foul precurrer of th(E) fiend,
. Augur of the fe(V)er's end,
. To this troup(E) come thou not near!
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.  t l a y,O n  t  h e s o l e A r a b i
.  a n t r e e, H  e r a l d s a d a n d
.  t r u m p e  t  b e,T o w h o s e s o
.  u n d c h a (S) t e w i n g s o b e y.
.  B u t t h o (U) s h r i e k i n g h a
.  r b i n g e (R),F o u l p r e c u r r
.  e r o f t h (E) f i e n d,A u g u r o
.  f t h e f e (V) e r's e n d,T o t h i
.  s t r o u p (E) c o m e t h o u n o t
.  n e a r!

{E.VERUS} 18 : (Oxford's Latin name)
. Prob. at start ~ 1 in 6,860
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. From this session interdict
. Every fowl of tyrant wing,
. Save the eagle, feather'd king:
. Keep the obsequy so strict.

. Let the priest in surplice white,
. That defunctive music can,
. Be the death-divining swan,
. Lest the requ{I}em lack hi{S} right.
. And {T}hou trebl{E}-dated cro{W},
. That thy s{A}ble gende{R} makest
. Wi{T}h the breath thou givest and takest,
. 'Mongst our mourners shalt thou go.
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.  L  e  s  t  t  h  e  r  e
.  q  u {I} e  m  l  a  c  k
.  h  i {S} r  i  g  h  t. A
.  n  d {T} h  o  u  t  r  e
.  b  l {E}-d  a  t  e  d  c
.  r  o {W},T  h  a  t  t  h
.  y  s {A} b  l  e  g  e  n
.  d  e {R} m  a  k  e  s  t
.  W  i {T} h (T) h  e  b  r
.  e  a  t  h (T) h  o  u  g
.  i  v  e  s (T) a  n  d  t
.  a  k  e  s (T),

{I(ames) STEWART} 9 (King of England) Prob. ~ 1 in 137,000
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. Here the anthem doth commence:
. Love and constancy is dead;
. Phoenix and the turtle fled
. In a mutual flame from hence.

. So they loved, as love in twain
. Had the essence but in one;
. Two distincts, division none:
. Number there in love was slain.

. Hearts remote, yet not asunder;
. Distance, and no space was seen
. 'Twixt the turtle and his queen:
. But in them it were a wonder.

. So between them love did shine,
. That the turtle saw his right
. Flaming in the phoenix' sight;
. Either was the other's mine.

. Property was thus appalled,
. That the self was not the same;
. Single nature's double name
. Neither two nor one was called.

. Reason, in itself confounded,
. Saw division grow together,
. To themselves yet either neither,
. Simple were so well compounded,

. That it cried, How true a twain
. Seemeth this concordant one!
. Love hath reason, reason none,
. If what parts can so remain.

. Whereupon it made this threne
. To the phoenix and the dove,
. Co-su(P)remes (A)nd sta(R)s of lo(V)e,
. As ch(O)rus to their tragic scene.
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.  C  o- s  u (P) r
.  e  m  e  s (A) n
.  d  s  t  a (R) s
.  o  f  l  o (V) e,
.  A  s  c  h (O) r
.  u  s  t  o  t  h
.  e  i  r  t  r  a
.  g  i  c  s  c  e
.  n  e.

(PARVO) 6 : (Rutland/Manners' motto)
. Prob. in last sentences ~ 1 in 15,000
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"MULTUM IN PARVO" : "Much in LITTLE"
"Much [information] condensed into few words."
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. _MOBY DICK_ CHAPTER 107 "The CARPENTER"
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<<You might almost say, that this STRANGE uncompromisedness in him involved *a sort of unintelligence* ; for in his numerous trades, he did not seem to work so much by reason or by instinct, or simply because he had been TUTORed to it, or by any intermixture of all these, even or UNEVEN; but merely by kind of DEAF & DUMB, spontaneous literal process
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He was a pure manipulater; his BRAIN, if he had EVER had one, must have early oozed along into the muscles of his fingers. He was like one of those unreasoning but still highly useful, *MULTUM IN PARVO* , >>
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[Beyond]

Well, that was a little s-l-o-w, but given the posted picture... understandable.
I do believe I'll try another.
Perhaps I'll be able to Stump Art with a stump art out-house

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Perhaps I'll be able to Stump Art with a stump art out-house

[list]Love's Labour's Lost Act 2, Scene 1[/list]
PRINCESS: Were my lord so, his ignorance were wise,
[list] Where now his knowledge must prove ignorance.[/color]
I hear your grace hath sworn out house-keeping:
Tis deadly sin to keep that oath, my lord,
And sin to break it.
But pardon me. I am too sudden-bold:
To teach a teacher ill beseemeth me.
Vouchsafe to read the purpose of my coming,
And suddenly resolve me in my suit.[/i][/list]

[Beyond]

Hmm... Really a bit thin, Art.
Maybe if i leave off the stump and just post some Art

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<<Zero Hour (stylized as ZERØ HOUR) is an American conspiracy television series starring Anthony Edwards.

The first episode aired on February 14, 2013 [Neufer's 67th birthday ].

Hank Galliston (Anti-ny Edwards) publishes the magazine Modern Skeptic, which focuses on the paranormal. His wife Laila buys a unique-looking clock from a boardwalk vendor. Hank disassembles Laila's clock to find a flawed diamond. With light shone through it, the stone refracts a map. Hank shows the map and its markings to Father Mickle, a priest who talks of a language that died in the 2nd century. The priest also mentions the Rosicrucians, a group of Christian mystics of the time. Arron and Rachel travel to Bavaria to find the clock maker, who wears a Rosicrucian cross. He informs them that after the Nazis created a new "eternal life", the Church appointed twelve new "apostles" that assembled in 1938 to protect the war-torn world from doom. A clock was created for each. The apostles then scattered to hide from the Nazis.

Laila Galliston [discovers] a new clue, PR642. Hank's father suggests the digits are a 1938 phone number. The physics department of Princeton University's Institute for Advanced Study, where Albert Einstein had once worked, is the new location. It is revealed Einstein was also an apostle with a clock. Hank's team and the FBI believe Einstein's partially erased blackboard contains the much-sought-after answer in finding his clock. Hank later finds Einstein's clock, and a message inside, believed to be Einstein's last words, gets decoded. The message states not only his remorse for helping creating the atomic bomb, but also his atonement by mentioning others' attempts to kill God.>>

[Beyond]

Well, i must say that that was a Neuendorffer better than "Love's Labor's Lost Act 2, scene 1.

You're 67 What an Oldie
I'm only heading for 66.

Even though there were no shaken speres thrown at what i posted, the story makes up for it.
And because you're so (ha-ha) old, I'll give you a break from 'stumpin' fer awhile, but that doesn't mean that no one else will try.

Gee, to think that one day I'll be as old as neufer is already. GADS!!

[geckzilla]

It's all just a bunch of fuliginous waste.

[neufer]

Even though there were no shaken speres thrown at what i posted, the story makes up for it.

• You missed "publishes the magazine Modern Skeptic"

<<Hank Galliston (Anti-ny Edwards) publishes the magazine Modern Skeptic, which focuses on the paranormal.>>

[Beyond]

The article in the magazine Modern Skeptic isn't Shakespeare, it's about the man Shakespeare, who he really was. So that doesn't count.

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It's all just a bunch of fuliginous waste.

His head, like a smokejack, the funnel unswept,
and the ideas whirling round and round about in it,
all obfuscated and darkened over with fuliginous matter.
clouds of passion which might obfuscate the intellects of meaner females .
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x 29 buttons on Shakespeare

Words Hidden in the Dedication of Shakespeare's Sonnets

<<Here are words of four or more letters that have been found in arrays based on the first 146 letters of the dedication to Shakespeare's Sonnets. Following each word is a key to its location. The first two digits identify the array (from 02 columns to 35 columns); the second two digits identify the column in which the word was found; the lowercase "d" or "u" indicates whether the word is found by reading down the column or up.

5-letter Words: WASTE:0606d >>

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• Romeo and Juliet Act 1, Scene 4

MERCUTIO: I mean, sir, in delay

• We *WASTE* our lights in vain, like lamps by day.
  Take our good meaning, for our judgment sits
  *FIVE TIMES in that ere once in our FIVE wits* .

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Dedication of Shakespeare's Sonnets
# of Capital Letters= 145 (= 5 x 29)

     T O.T H E.
     O N L I E.
     B E G E T
     T E R.O F.
     T H E S E.
     I N S V I
     N G.S O N
     N E T S Mr
    [W]H A L L.
     H[A]P P I
     N E[S]S E.
     A N D[T]H
     A T.E T[E]
     R N I T I
     E P R O M
     I S E D.B
     Y.O V R.E
     V E R-L I
     V I N G.P
     O E T.W I
     S H E T H.
     T H E.W E
     L L-W I S
     H I N G.A
     D V E N T
     V R E R I
     N.S E T T
     I N G.F O
     R T H.T.T.

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• Shakespeare's Sonnet 145:

. 'I HATE' from *HATE AWAY* SHE threw,
. And sav'd my life, saying 'not you'
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• Known Earl of Oxford poem:

"That I do *WASTE* with *OTHERS' LOVE* ,
. that *HATH* myself in *HATE* ," - E.O.
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<<It has been claimed that [Shakespeare's Sonnet 145] was originally written for Anne HATHAWAY, Shakespeare's wife. This was first proposed by Andrew Gurr in 1971. Gurr suggested that the words "HATE AWAY" may be a pun (in Elizabethan pronunciation) on "HATHAWAY". It has also been suggested that the next words, "And saved my life", would have been indistinguishable in pronunciation from "Anne saved my life". Gurr says in his work “Shakespeare’s First Poem: Sonnet 145” that Shakespeare wrote this poem in 1582, making Shakespeare only 18. “The only explanation that makes much sense is that the play on ‘hate’ and throwing ‘hate away’ by adding an ending was meant to be read by a lady whose surname was Hathaway”. He argues that because spelling was not consistent in Shakespeare’s time there is no way of knowing for sure whether it was to her or not. He does think it is plausible that such a pun on her name exists within this sonnet since he does make other puns in various other sonnets. Michael Wood agrees with Andrew Gurr in the idea of this poem being about Anne and says it would make sense for this sonnet to be about her because, “He [Shakespeare] was vulnerable. Anne was twenty-six and knew the world. Reading between the lines, she would be the rock on which he relied through his life, supporting his career in London”.>>

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The article in the magazine Modern Skeptic isn't Shakespeare,
it's about the man Shakespeare, who he really was.

So that doesn't count.

• EDWARD DE VERE, ERLE OF OXINFORD was a Vi-count:

<<Arthur Golding (c. 1536 – May 1606) was an English translator of more than 30 works from Latin into English. While primarily remembered today for "his" [1567] translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses because of its influence on William Shakespeare's works, in his own time he was most famous for his translations of the sermons of John Calvin were important in spreading the doctrines of the Protestant Reformation.>>

THE BOOK OF PSALMS BY JOHN CALVIN

• THE EPISTLE DEDICATORY

[PREFIXED TO THE ORIGINAL TRANSLAT10N, 1571.]

To The Right Honorably And Verie Good Lord,
EDWARD DE VERE, ERLE OF OXINFORD,
Lord Great Chamberlain Of England, Vicount Bulbecke, Etc.

• ARTHUR GOLDING

To the furtherance wherof, God hath by householde alyance lincked vnto
your Lordship a long experienced NESTOR, whose counsaile and footsteps
if you folowe, no doubte but you shalbee bothe happie in your selfe, and
singularly profitable to your common welth; and moreouer, God shall
blisse you with plentiful and godly issue by your vertuous and
deerbeloued Spouse, to continew the honor and renoavne of your noble
house after the happy knitting vp of bothe your yeeres, which I pray God
may bee many in vnseperable loue, like the loue of Ceix and Alcyonee,
to the glory of God, and the contentation of bothe your desires.

Written at London, the 20:of October 1571.
Your good Lordship's moste humlble to commaund, Arthur Golding.

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_The MINERVA BRITANNA_ Banner Folding clearly demonstrates
how the Equidistant Linear Sequence decoding is to be performed:
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.      [V]I    \V\  I T U R
.      [I]N G   \E\  N I O
.      [C]Æ|T|E  \R\  A M
.      [O]R|T|I S \E\  R
.      [U N T]

"all thinges perish and come to theyr last end, but workes
of learned WITS and monuments of Poetry abide *for EUER* ."
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*MENTE VIDEBOR*
__ {anagram}
*DE VERE IN TOMB* (1612)
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[Beyond]

Sheesh I may just give up this thread. Ann hath a way with Shakespeare that i don't have.
Plus... that 29th button on Shakespeare looks a little different.

[geckzilla]

The fuliginous waste (hot air) turned out to be carbon dioxide, something that wouldn't be well understood until Lavoisier came along. And then he got his head chopped off. What a waste. The questionable author had no idea what breath really was.

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The fuliginous waste (hot air) turned out to be carbon dioxide, something that wouldn't be well understood until Lavoisier came along. And then he got his head chopped off. What a waste. The questionable author had no idea what breath really was.

[size=135][b][color=#FF0000]BA[/color][color=#0000FF] n : the soul represented by a bird with a human head (here seen on the de Vere Coat-of-Arms)[/color][/b][/size]

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• James Joyce's _Ulysses_ p.377

"Metempsychosis. They believed you could be
changed into a tree from grief. WEEPING WILLOW.

BA. There he goes. Funny little beggar.

Wonder where he lives. Belfry up there. VERy likely."

"BA. Again."

"BA. Who knows what they're always flying for. Insects?"
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_____ Love's Labour's Lost > Act V, scene I

MOTH: [Aside to COSTARD] They have been at
. a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.

COSTARD: O, they have lived long on the alms-basket of words.
. I marvel thy master hath not eaten thee for a word;
. for thou Art not so long by the head as
. H[ONO](r)i(F)i[CAB]ilitudinitatibus:
. thou Art easier swallowed than a flap-dragon.

MOTH: Peace! the peal begins.

DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO: [To HOLOFERNES]
. Monsieur, are you not lettered?

MOTH: Yes, yes; he teaches boys the hornbook. What is
. a, b, spelt backward, with the horn on his head?

HOLOFERNES: BA, pueritia, with a HORN added.

MOTH: BA, most silly sheep with a HORN. You hear his learning.
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HORN, n. [W., Gael., & Ir. CORN, L. CORNU Cf. CORN on the foot, CORNea, CORNer, CORNet, CORNUcopia.]

[owlice]

Got anything for straws, grasping at?

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Got anything for straws, grasping at?

[list]Hamlet, Prince of Denmark Act 4, Scene 5[/list]
Gentleman: She...
[list] Spurns enviously at straws; speaks things in doubt,
That carry but half sense: her speech is nothing,
Yet the unshaped use of it doth move
The hearers to collection; they aim at it,
And botch the words up fit to their own thoughts;[/list][/color][/i]------------------------------------------------------------------
[list]King Lear Act 3, Scene 4[/list]
KENT: What Art thou that dost grumble there i' the straw?

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[list]King Richard III Act 3, Scene 5[/list]
BUCKINGHAM: Tut, I can counterfeit the deep tragedian;
[list] Speak and look back, and pry on EVERy side,
Tremble and start at wagging of a straw,
Intending deep suspicion: ghastly looks
Are at my service, like enforced smiles ;
And both are ready in their offices,
At any time, to grace my stratagems.[/list][/color][/i]------------------------------------------------------------------
[list]Hamlet, Prince of Denmark Act 4, Scene 4[/list]
HAMLET: Rightly to be great
[list] Is not to stir without great argument,
But greatly to find quarrel in a straw
When honour's at the stake.[/list][/color][/i]