{"id":588,"date":"2017-02-13T19:42:34","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T19:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespearelang\/?p=588"},"modified":"2017-02-13T19:42:34","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T19:42:34","slug":"on-valentines-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespearelang\/2017\/02\/13\/on-valentines-day\/","title":{"rendered":"On Valentine&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Sean Murphy.<\/p>\n<p>Each numbered phrase is from a Shakespeare play, but which one? Answers below:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Tomorrow is Saint Valentine&#8217;s day,<br \/>\nAll in the morning betime,<br \/>\nAnd I a maid at your window<br \/>\nTo be your Valentine<a href=\"#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">[i]<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">I am so love-shaked<a href=\"#_edn2\" name=\"_ednref2\">[ii]<\/a> that I need a remedy. My love-thoughts lie rich when canopied with bowers<a href=\"#_edn3\" name=\"_ednref3\">[iii]<\/a>. I am an old love-monger<a href=\"#_edn4\" name=\"_ednref4\">[iv]<\/a>, who speaks skilfully. I relish a love-song<a href=\"#_edn5\" name=\"_ednref5\">[v]<\/a>, and wish to write a love-line<a href=\"#_edn6\" name=\"_ednref6\">[vi]<\/a>. I imagine myself a don Cupid, a regent of love rhymes<a href=\"#_edn7\" name=\"_ednref7\">[vii]<\/a> in love-letters. I aim to loose my love-shaft from my bow<a href=\"#_edn8\" name=\"_ednref8\">[viii]<\/a>, plead my love-suit<a href=\"#_edn9\" name=\"_ednref9\">[ix]<\/a> and interchange love-tokens<a href=\"#_edn10\" name=\"_ednref10\">[x]<\/a> with my true love before love-devouring death do what he dare<a href=\"#_edn11\" name=\"_ednref11\">[xi]<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Ah, if only I could end the heart-ache<a href=\"#_edn12\" name=\"_ednref12\">[xii]<\/a> I feel for that rose-lipped cherubin<a href=\"#_edn13\" name=\"_ednref13\">[xiii]<\/a>. I am a true lover<a href=\"#_edn14\" name=\"_ednref14\">[xiv]<\/a>, a hot lover<a href=\"#_edn15\" name=\"_ednref15\">[xv]<\/a>! I am a lover, sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad, made to my mistress\u2019 eye-brow<a href=\"#_edn16\" name=\"_ednref16\">[xvi]<\/a>. Thy lips, those kissing cherries, tempting grow!<a href=\"#_edn17\" name=\"_ednref17\">[xvii]<\/a> If my passion change not shortly<a href=\"#_edn18\" name=\"_ednref18\">[xviii]<\/a>, then I will kiss your lips<a href=\"#_edn19\" name=\"_ednref19\">[xix]<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Enough, no more!<a href=\"#_edn20\" name=\"_ednref20\">[xx]<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">The 15<sup>th<\/sup> of February, I can say at last:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Good morrow, friends \u2013 Saint Valentine is past!<a href=\"#_edn21\" name=\"_ednref21\">[xxi]<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ednref1\" name=\"_edn1\"><em>[i]<\/em><\/a><em> Hamlet<br \/>\n<\/em><a href=\"#_ednref2\" name=\"_edn2\"><em>[ii]<\/em><\/a><em> As You Like It<br \/>\n<\/em><a href=\"#_ednref3\" name=\"_edn3\"><em>[iii]<\/em><\/a><em> Twelfth Night<br \/>\n<\/em><a href=\"#_ednref4\" name=\"_edn4\"><em>[iv]<\/em><\/a><em> Love\u2019s Labours Lost<br \/>\n<\/em><a href=\"#_ednref5\" name=\"_edn5\"><em>[v]<\/em><\/a><em> The Two Gentlemen of Verona<br \/>\n<\/em><a href=\"#_ednref6\" name=\"_edn6\"><em>[vi]<\/em><\/a><em> All\u2019s Well that End Well<br \/>\n<\/em><a href=\"#_ednref7\" name=\"_edn7\"><em>[vii]<\/em><\/a><em> Love\u2019s Labours Lost<br \/>\n<\/em><a href=\"#_ednref8\" name=\"_edn8\"><em>[viii]<\/em><\/a><em> A Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream<br \/>\n<\/em><a href=\"#_ednref9\" name=\"_edn9\"><em>[ix]<\/em><\/a><em> Henry V<br \/>\n<\/em><a href=\"#_ednref10\" name=\"_edn10\"><em>[x]<\/em><\/a><em> A Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream<br \/>\n<\/em><a href=\"#_ednref11\" name=\"_edn11\"><em>[xi]<\/em><\/a><em> Romeo and Juliet<br \/>\n<\/em><a href=\"#_ednref12\" name=\"_edn12\"><em>[xii]<\/em><\/a><em> Hamlet<br \/>\n<\/em><a href=\"#_ednref13\" name=\"_edn13\"><em>[xiii]<\/em><\/a><em> Othello<br \/>\n<\/em><a href=\"#_ednref14\" name=\"_edn14\"><em>[xiv]<\/em><\/a><em> As You Like It<br \/>\n<\/em><a href=\"#_ednref15\" name=\"_edn15\"><em>[xv]<\/em><\/a><em> The Two Gentlemen of Verona<br \/>\n<\/em><a href=\"#_ednref16\" name=\"_edn16\"><em>[xvi]<\/em><\/a><em> As You Like It<br \/>\n<\/em><a href=\"#_ednref17\" name=\"_edn17\"><em>[xvii]<\/em><\/a><em> A Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream<br \/>\n<\/em><a href=\"#_ednref18\" name=\"_edn18\"><em>[xviii]<\/em><\/a><em> Much Ado About Nothing<br \/>\n<\/em><a href=\"#_ednref19\" name=\"_edn19\"><em>[xix]<\/em><\/a><em> Henry V<br \/>\n<\/em><a href=\"#_ednref20\" name=\"_edn20\">[xx]<\/a> <em>Twelfth Night<br \/>\n<\/em><a href=\"#_ednref21\" name=\"_edn21\"><em>[xxi]<\/em><\/a><em> A Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sean Murphy. Each numbered phrase is from a Shakespeare play, but which one? Answers below: Tomorrow is Saint Valentine&#8217;s day, All in the morning betime, And I a maid at your window To be your Valentine[i]. I am so &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespearelang\/2017\/02\/13\/on-valentines-day\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[47],"class_list":["post-588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-valentines-day"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespearelang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespearelang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespearelang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespearelang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespearelang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespearelang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespearelang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespearelang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespearelang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}