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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsHaving some dinner with Will Shakespeare. Ask us anything.
Debating whether to post an edition of WSTFTD this weekend. I'm going out of town, and Will is headed to Stratford.
The Globe is closed for the winter, of course, and business at the Blackfriars is cool right now. So relaxation time for everyone...
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,580 posts)I'll leave it up to you and Will about the weekend posting...
It's good to relax now and then.
Aristus
(66,310 posts)Will ate a lot of turnips when he was coming up, but now that he's made his bones: "Zounds, mate! Never again!"
Beef, lamb, fowl of any sort, toasted cheese, you name it. It's good to be rich, says Will.
Aristus
(66,310 posts)"Boiled leaves? Ta, mate, thank you, no. A sip of ale will do me quite well."
elleng
(130,860 posts)but a SIP???
surely
Aristus
(66,310 posts)British understatement, you know...
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Aristus
(66,310 posts)Before that, BREW! Even the children drank it. "Small beer", it was called, for its low-alcohol content.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Aristus
(66,310 posts)RILib
(862 posts)or something. I'm not sure how using it as an ingredient in beer overcame that.
pscot
(21,024 posts)Anyway the water was a lot cleaner than it is now.
RILib
(862 posts)weren't people always keeling over in London from diseases from contaminated water.
ellisonz
(27,711 posts)Which loo did Shakespeare go into or is a unisex joint?
struggle4progress
(118,273 posts)ellisonz
(27,711 posts)Aristus
(66,310 posts)One-holers for the poor, four-holers for the middle-class, water closets for the rich, and "the stool" for royalty.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)depending on where you lived.
struggle4progress
(118,273 posts)Aristus
(66,310 posts)That was me, not Will...
struggle4progress
(118,273 posts)Ptah
(33,024 posts)Aristus
(66,310 posts)frogmarch
(12,153 posts)when Will and his friends emptied their chamber pots out the window, and shouted, Ware (Beware) the stool! they were actually shouting, Wear the stool!
Seriously. Ive wondered about it ever since my high school World History teacher said thats what they shouted.
Well, you did say we could ask you anything.
Aristus
(66,310 posts)Actually, Will just said: "Crikey, mate! You colonial blokes think up the oddest things!..."
frogmarch
(12,153 posts)I expected as much.
Regards to you both.
Grantuspeace
(873 posts)Lady Freedom Returns
(14,120 posts)Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak whispers the o'er-fraught heart, and bids it break.
FYI= Macbeth-- Act 4, Sc. 3
Aristus
(66,310 posts)I didn't think to make a standing offer. I was beating my head against the table, when Will said:
"What though her frowning brows be bent,
Her cloudy looks will calm her night,
And then too late she will repent,
That thus dissembled her delight."
I think he thinks you're faking your sorrow. But good on you for expressing it in his words.
Uh-oh, here goes: he's lifting his glass in toast to you.
He's really got a thing for you, LFR. Pull up a chair and have coffee and dessert with us...