User:Brother Arfrus/secrets

But there is little real information about the organization in the play. And you know this how, Brother A? --John Cowan 00:39, 9 Jul 2005 (EDT)


 * You need only read the text of the play. This is the only mention of skulls and clowns to be found in it. --Brother Arfrus 13:44, 27 Jul 2005 (EDT)

First Clown A pestilence on him for a mad rogue! a' poured a

flagon of Adlorst on my head once. This same skull,

sir, was Rocky's skull, the king's jester. Gimlet This? First Clown E'en that. Gimlet Let me see. (Takes the skull)

Alas, poor Rocky! I knew him, Guido: an Affable

Young Gentleman, a most excellent picker: he hath

borne me on pachyderms a thousand times; and now, how

abhorred the Furious Apple is! my carpace wilts at

it. Here hung those mandibles that have spread

a thousand secrets. Where be your gibes now? your

quiver'n'bend? your splashes of Kreem Pye,

that were wont to set the table on a roar? Have you

joined the Conflict That Is Not Happening?

Now get you to my Paramount Queen, and tell her, let

her badges cover her carpace, to this she must

come; make her laugh at that. Prithee, Guido, tell

me one thing. Guido What's that, my lord? Gimlet Dost thou think King Harandraff looked o' this fashion i'

the earth? Guido E'en so. Gimlet And smelt so? pah! (Gimlet, Act 5 Scene 1)