BITS AND PIECES

PUPPY TALES

To be as it were, a dog at all times.

William Shakespeare

Therefore to this dog will I,

Tenderly not scornfully,

Render praise and favour:

With my hand upon his head,

is my benediction said

Therefore and forever.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I`m only a dog --- Not much you say

But I have great sport, I play all day.

Grenville Kleiser

Recollect the Almighty, who

gave the dog to be a companion

of our pleasures and our toils,

hath invested him with a nature

noble and incaple of deceit.

Sir Walter Scott                                    

 

                                                                     

 

SHAKESPEAREAN INSULTS

 

You are not worth another word, else I`d call you Knave.

 

Why art thou then exasperate, thou idle immaterial skein of sleave-silk, thou green sarsenet flap for a sore eye, thou tassel of a prodigal`s purse, thou? Ah, how the world is pestered with such waterflies, diminutives of nature.

Thou whoreson zed, thou unnecessary letter.    

This woman`s an easy glove, my Lord, she goes off and on at pleasure.

False of Heart, light of Ear, bloody handed, Hog in sloth, Fox in stealth, Wolf in greediness, Dog in madness, Lion in prey.

I would thou didst itch from head to foot and I had the scratching of thee; I would make thee the loathsomest scab in Greece.