Subject: RE: Letterman's Top 10 (my favorite is number 2) Bcozican - 2008-09-26 5:55 PM Bloody h3ll! a reference to Henry V - no idea what that is about.....dont remember a lick of Shakespear from school..;-) Prince Hal (future Henry V)'s soliloquy at the beginning of I Henry IV: HENRY, PRINCE OF WALES. I know you all, and will awhile uphold The unyok'd humour of your idleness. Yet herein will I imitate the Sun, Who doth permit the base contagious clouds To smother up his beauty from the world, That, when he please again to be himself, Being wanted, he may be more wonder'd at, By breaking through the foul and ugly mists Of vapours that did seem to strangle him. If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work; But, when they seldom come, they wish'd-for come, And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents. So when this loose behaviour I throw off, And pay the debt I never promised, By how much better than my word I am, By so much shall I falsify men's hopes; And, like bright metal on a sullen ground, My reformation, glitt'ring o'er my fault, Shall show more goodly and attract more eyes Than that which hath no foil to set it off. I'll so offend to make offense a skill, Redeeming time when men think least I will. I had to learn it in 10th or 11th grade.....
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