quiz
Terrance
lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Sun Apr 7 07:16:29 CDT 2002
Miguel de Cervantes, author of Don Quichotte de la Mancha and William
Shakespeare both died on the 23rd of April 1616. Three days after
Cervantes was buried, Shakespeare rose from his seat and declared,
"ah, we have lost the greatest writer in all of Europe."
How can this be?
Hint: Shakespeare was born and died on St. George day.
Death eats up all things, both the young lamb
and old sheep; and I have heard our parson
say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that
comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no
mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather
or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn:
he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach'd, for he swallows without
chewing,
and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and tho' you can see
no belly
he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives,
which he
guggles down like mother's milk.
-- Miguel de Cervantes: Sancho Panza, in Don Quixote, pt. 2, bk. 5, ch.
20
http://www.delcohistory.org/ashmead/ashmead_pg19.htm
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