Shakespeare meme

[jack]

"I have given suck and know how tender tis to love the babe that milks me, I would pluck my nipple from its boneless gums and dash its brains out, had I so sworn as you have done to this."

I don't know why I remember that quote. I wonder if that's the longest quote I could give? I don't remember many, especially excluding snippets of "to be or not to be"

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[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Note, that's not quite right, there's a clause missing, you can google if you need the original, and I remembered one of the pronouns differently. But pretty much.

[pizza.maircrosoft.com (from livejournal.com)]

nice cuddly quote you picked there.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know it's violent; as I say, I'm not sure quite why it stayed with me, I think the way it all runs cascadingly up to the dramatic last few words.

[pizza.maircrosoft.com (from livejournal.com)]

hm. I must have known reams of shakespeare at the times I was studying it for gcse/a-level, but I can't think of any quote longer than a few words now. bits...

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Do you want to quote a few single phrases?

[pizza.maircrosoft.com (from livejournal.com)]

not especially :)

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

:)

[ladyshrew.livejournal.com]

I had that speech memorized when I was 11. It's really disturbing that I did.

[ladyshrew.livejournal.com]

Btw, it's, "I would, while it was smiling in my face, have plucked my nipple . . . " and I think "the brains"?