Re: Never read Shakespeare while you're hungry
Posted by:
Lymond (---.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com)
Date: January 19, 2007 12:07PM
Welcome, good Robin.
See'st thou this sweet?
The date cake now I do begin to pity:
For, eating it of late behind the trolley,
Seeking sweet favours from this hateful food,
I did upbraid her and fall out with her;
For the waitress from the kitchen then had rounded
With a coronet of fresh and fragrant flans;
And that same dew, which sometime on the buds
Was wont to swell like round and orient pearls,
Poured now upon that pretty flans heights
Like tears that did their own disgrace bewail.
When I had at my pleasure tasted it
And the waitress in mild terms begg'd my patience,
I then did ask for a napkin
Which straight she gave me, and to the kitchen sent
To bear to my table a 1787 Chateau d'Yquem.
And now I have the bottle, I will undo
This hateful imperfection of a cork:
And, gently Pluck, take this transformed cork
From off the neck of this fine wine;
That, he awaking when the other do,
May all to Athens back again repair
And think no more of this night's accidents
But as the fierce vexation of a hangover.
But first I will release the green fairy.
Be as thou wast wont to be;
See as thou wast wont to see:
Dian's bud o'er Cupid's absinthe
Hath no force or blessed power.
Now, my Titania; wake you, my sweet queen and phone me an ambulance.