09w09:1 Shakespeare's Blog Part X Posted February 25th, 2009 by timothy. 0 Comments Goodreads | 2009 week 09 number 1 (Shakespeare’s Blog Part X) February 25th Money money. My presents are not enough (the bolt of silk, the dress of taffetas, the mask encrusted with brilliants). WS, prospering man of affairs, gives gold. Prices are so high, she says. It is on account of the crops failing last year. What does she like best to eat? Mutton stewed tender in spices, coughing with pepper. Odi et amo. Her smell, rank and sweet, repels my sense and drives me to madness. (And all the time poor Richard jogs on toward his foul death. Roan Barbary I have called her: that horse that thou so often hast bestrid, that horse that I so carefully have dressed. Then I see the twoness. She harps still on Burbage, a proper man. Well, that Bolingbroke shall never ride her). (Anthony Burgess, Nothing Like The Sun, p. 151)
