- Time of past OR future Camino
- First one in 2005 from Moissac, France.
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By Jove, I am not covetous for gold,
You've misread this line -- according to my own research, that should be a "By James".
No mention of the "hot coil to maketh tea or the Buff to covereth ones head and neck from the burning sun"
Doh! You're right! - changing it now!
Well, while we're at it --
NOT
This story shall the good pilgrim teach his son (or daughter);
And the Feast of St James shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But that we pilgrims in it shall be remember'd;
We few, we happy few, we band of (non-gender specific) brothers;
For he these coming days that blisters his feet with me
Shall be my (non-gender specific) brother; be he ne'er so vile and snore so much,
These coming days shall gentle his condition:
BUT
This story shall the good pilgrim teach their child;
And the Feast of St James shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But that we pilgrims in it shall be remember'd;
We few, we happy few, we band of brethren;
For those, these coming days, that blister their feet with me
Shall be my brethren; be they ne'er so vile and snore so much,
These coming days shall gentle their condition:
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hmmmmm, interesting, it's not every day one gets to edit words from Shakespeare !!!
And of course there's the classic pilgrims' dilemma, needing the 'servicos' when the next village (and bar) is at least 5 kms away ... "to pee or not to pee" ...
Jennie. How now, spirit! whither wander you?…………………And of course there's the classic pilgrims' dilemma, needing the 'servicos' when the next village (and bar) is at least 5 kms away ... "to pee or not to pee" ...
Hi David, pilgrim b and John -
David - What a delight this thread is! We have all the best of Shakespeare rolled into one thread! Par excellence, thanks to you!
pilgrim b - You've excelled yourself with 2.1.1. Midsummers Night's Dream! This one's a cracker!
John - thank you for the compliment - I love reading your posts (as I do pilgrim b's and David's) - particularly those subtle, but hugely humorous, one liners!
I have to say that I was surprised no one beat me to the pee dilemma - 'guess it takes a crass Aussie to throw caution to the wind and post away so recklessly!
Cheers - Jenny
Shakespeare could have helped out with the forum rules (apologies for the gender specific references etc.)
1) “Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”
2) “They do not love that do not show their love.”
3) “Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.”
4) “I am not bound to please thee with my answer.”
5) “O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!”
6) “No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.”
7) “There's many a man has more hair than wit.”
8) “A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
9) “Words without thoughts never to heaven go”...
…however if anyone mentions real pilgrims, religion, or engages in 'pacer polemics' to the point where “Hell is empty and all the devils are here”...
10)…“Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.”
Yourself, sweet lady; for you gave the fire.Pilgrim
borrows his wit from your ladyship's words,
and spends what he borrows kindly in your company.
Two Gentlemen of Verona Pt1
pilgrim b -
Your ladyship is tremendously chuffed! This next one's for you and it's no coincidence that it comes from a recently-discovered sequel to "Romeo and Juliet" - indeed - it contains a variation on that line which is quoted above by thee so wittily! ...
The play! ... (drum roll please!) ... "Romeo and Juliet - The Miracle of The Way" - a play where no one died after all in the first play due to a miracle, and Romeo and Juliet end up in Spain - yes, you guessed it! - on the Camino!
The scene: crowded albergue dorm ... mightily malodorous ... the symphony of snoring wakes up the lovers ...
Romeo, to Juliet: "But, soft! What headlamp light through yonder window breaks? ...
Henry V: SCENE III.
Meanwhile, back on the Camino, after being told by the hospitelero that the owners say they can’t enter the refugio in Los Arcos as they are too muddy, the same pilgrim, dressed in now soaked and filthy cloth of gold, stands forward and speaks....
Let me speak proudly: tell the refugio owners
We are but pilgrims for the working day;
Our gayness and our gilt are all besmirched
With rainy walking on the muddy Camino.
And time and rain hath worn us into slovenry.
But, by the Mass, our hearts are in the trim ....
And my poor pilgrims now tell me, yet ere night
They will be in this refugio
And they'll be in fresher robes, or they will pluck
The gay new coats o'er the refugio owners heads
And turn them out of service. If they do this,--
As, if God please, they shall,--our passports then
Will soon be stamped. Hospitelero, save thou thy labour;
Come thou no more for clean boots and garments, gentle hospitelero:
You shall have none, I swear, except perhaps my excess and unused clothing;
Which if you have as I will leave 'em them,
Shall yield you little, tell the refugio owners.
Some pilgrim or other must present Wall: and let him
have some Grafiti, as in Leon, and some rough-cast
buff about him, to signify wall; and let him hold his
fingers thus bearing a buff, and through that cranny shall perigrino
and his love whisper." Buen Camino !!"
Midsummer Nights Dream Act 3 scene 1
O pilgrim b, pilgrim b! Wherefore art thou pilgrim b?! And how did you get to Leon so quickly? The rest of us are still in Los Arcos!
pilgrim b! The Lady from the Great Southern Land doth beseech you to quit Leon and return to that bliss you left behind (in Los Arcos - yep - we're all still waiting!).How heavy do I journey on the Way,
When what I seek, my weary travel's end,
Doth teach that ease and that repose to say
'Thus far the miles are measured from my friends!'
For that same groan doth put this in my mind;
My grief lies onward and my joy behind.
Therefore should I tarry?
Sonnet 50
pilgrim b! The Lady from the Great Southern Land doth beseech you to quit Leon and return to that bliss you left behind (in Los Arcos - yep - we're all still waiting!).
Have a care on your perilous and lonely journey, for 'rough winds do shake the darling buds of May' on the Meseta. Godspeed, until we are reunited and our dishevelled but still 'golden' pilgrim can joyously proclaim 'Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more' …
Dearest pilgrim b - my head's spinning !!!I took the horse my Leige forsook exchanging for a bed
Methinks my Bottom was the fool when on to Leon I Sped!
Act 1 v 1 anon
Dearest pilgrim b - my head's spinning !!!
I must 'to sleep; perchance to dream (of finally walking out of Los Arcos with the one who has so recently returned plus the rest of our motley lot of pilgrim mates!): ay, there's the rub ...'!
I will have my scribe put nib to parchment at the earliest hour on the morrow ... silently, without any rustling of garbage bags ...
Good night, good night! Parting the Forum is such sweet sorrow!
Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit,
And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,
I will be brief.” Good night Southern maiden sweetest be thy dreams"
A message for pilgrim b from The Lady of the GSL's scribe :
"Kindest and wittiest pilgrim b - M'Lady has now emerged from her bedchamber (yes, the only private room in the albergue - the securing of which was a selfish act and definitely not 'true pilgrim' behaviour) and has instructed me to convey to you the following message, which, for reasons of national security, must be, of necessity, scripted in 'code' ...
Como estamos a la espera (fuera de la puerta del albergue cerrado, siendo el pasado 08 a.m.; bastones de senderismo tap, tap, golpeando con impaciencia) para nuestro OP nos regale con una nueva entrega de su cuento mágico, ¿existe la posibilidad, querido peregrino b, que podemos "entretener el tiempo con pensamientos de amor?" ...(Sonnet XXXIX)
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
Tis alone to Santiago I now must go.
Sonnet 30
Pilgrim B! Does this mean I've been dumped?
Tia - Ah if only wishing would make in so. But alas there are many steps (blisters and sprains) me thinks before the sun shall rise on SDC.Methinks it is all 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'
This comes from the recently-discovered sequel to "Romeo and Juliet"
Thou art mistaken thrice my dearest friend, twas not I be at thy door,
For it was, to Leon, that on my steed I rode, and there to build a wall:
I tarried there, thou read my post :O yeh your head was a spinning.
Perchance pilgrim was in your dream, for to Los Arcos he did nay return.
Thou art loved like a Camino angel, a scribe need never bolt thy door.
There is nought either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
So to my dearest friend :
A true-devoted pilgrim is not weary
To measure kingdoms with his feeble steps;
Much less shall she that hath Love's wings to fly,
And when the flight is made to one so dear,
Of such divine perfection, as ……...Thrice no thou art not dumped only thy thinking would make it so!
Two Gentlemen of Verona Act 2 :7
Love it!Alas, poor Osprey! I knew him, Horatio;
a pack of infinite space, of most excellent complication;
I did bear it on my back a thousand times;
and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is!
My gorge rises at it.
Here hung those Camelback lips that I have kissed I know not how oft.
Where be your straps now? Your clips? Your soggy plastic bags?
Your bottles of wine, that were wont to set the table on a roar?
Hamlet, V.i
On bus to Leon now - don't move!
'Sent from my iPhone'
“For never was a story of more woe than this of the Leon bus that did not show.”
Romeo Juliet
"O pilgrim b, thou art mighty yet"! * "the hand that writ it; (ie your post above!) for I love you so"** 'gave-eth' the Lady from the Great Southern Land much joy on her long journey back to the GSL after the bus took the wrong turn at Santo Domingo de la Calzada (see Al's fun thread!). BTW - is the wall finished yet?
* Julius Caesar: V.iii
** Sonnets: LXXI
Fair lady from GSL “I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.” ( As you like it)
Yeh Leon wall hath been accomplished, with much graffiti too!
To be a buff in replicate, as LTfit shall approve.
Our artist Wayfarer hath a pic he will post thou, if you choose!
A-ha pilgrim b! Methinks I 'as sussed the reason why "I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it" ... you 'as secured lodgings at the Parador Hostal San Marcos de Leon! (I bet you "like it" immensely!).
With said accomplishment of said wall, are you tarrying in the tourist shops for buffs - of such quality as to gain the approval of our dear Forum member LTfit?
If you please, dearest pilgrim b, convey my good wishes to our most precious Forum member and fellow pilgrim, Wayfarer, with the news that a 'pic posted' will be much appreciated here in the GSL ...
Nay thou hast grasped the wrong end of the stick Fair lady
Tis not the town I search for buffs, for I do seek the Wall
Hast thou not read the forum post entitled Camino buffs
Tis there I met precious member LTfit to help us in our call
Btw the Parador Hostal San Marcos de Leon is just right for all of us should I book rooms?
I beg your sweet forgiveness, pilgrim b, over the confusion with that most essential item of pilgrim apparel - the buff - for I have been most distracted of late.
Here in the GSL there has been cause for great rejoicing - our victory in yet another epic battle in the sporting arena - yes! The Second Test! The cause of my distraction was not due to that noble game itself, but to the plethora of post-match parties which I was obliged to attend!
However, I can report it was not ALL fun and games ... for I did atone for my previously reported selfish act (nabbing the only private room at the albergue at Los Arcos) and spent much time providing tea and sympathy to that sad army of cricket followers - the Barmy Army. Alas, said tea and sympathy were not appreciated by your countrymen, but the tinnies were!
Let us step along at a pilgrim's pace to the subject of the Parador booking ...
My scribe has exchanged correspondence with our Forum Bard - our OP - yes, he who is the Purveyor of the excellent range of pilgrim products. Our Bard sends his felicitations and is pleased to advise that the motley band of pilgrim mates has grown daily and has indeed become a merry troop, eagerly anticipating their "rest days" at the Parador! He advises lodgings for 226 pilgrims will be necessary, to book out all the restaurants, the day spa, and to warn the laundry staff! The booking is to be in the name of 'Revke'. (wow - am I in
trouble!)
My dear pilgrim b -
My scribe is suffering from the 'd-t's' after attending too many occasions of cricket celebrations with me, so please forgive the typo! Now corrected dear pilgrim b!
PS
See, your guests approach.
Address yourself to entertain them rightly,
And let's be red with mirth.
Parador in advance request thy names.
That is all 226 and sprightly,
- The Winter's Tale (Florizel at IV, iv)
- From Parador Hostal San Marcos de Leon
My dear pilgrim b -
My scribe, who has a number of concerns regarding the 'group' booking at the Parador Hostal San Marcos de Leon, has now exchanged correspondence directly with www.paradores-spain.com. He has been advised that the names of the 226 pilgrims (together with full contact details, passport numbers, AND credit card type, number and expiry date, plus that 3-digit 'ccc' thingey) is, of necessity, for reasons of confidentiality, to be provided by the individual themselves, and not by a third party.
Parador Reservations most kindly further explained to my scribe that the credit card details are required to guard against the non-payment of beverages from the mini bar and the "walk-away special"(a small Camino "in" joke!) theft of the bathrobes ... a highly desirable item for future 'lounge-wear' in albergues from Hospital de Orbigo onwards!
Accordingly, please despatch a trusted messenger forthwith to Los Arcos to obtain said details from all 226 pilgrims.
Does this mean I'm, dumped !!!!
Never fear, dear pilgrim b ! No 'Way' (yes, another Camino reference!) on earth would I ever dump thee !!!
Please know that "the course of true (pilgrim) love never did run smooth" * and until we can be reunited at the Parador Hostal San Marcos de Leon,
"We shall remain in (Forum) friendship" ** and demonstrate our mutual admiration by clicking on "Like, Like, Like"!
* A Midsummer Night's Dream: I,i
** Antony and Cleopatra: II,ii
Dear jennieH94 plus 226
your scribe he is a tricky youth
his quill is sharp yet shallow.
For if he pens a path for thee
My lady doth surely follow!
Tis now the second time his quill
hath turned thee from thy fate.
Tis time thy scribe did surely go
How much longer must I wait?
pilgrim b Chap 2 v 1,2
My dearest pilgrim b -
Pray not beseecheth me to give my scribe his marching orders - inefficient at times - yes; a tad too fond of tinnies and tinto - yes - for it is this tricky youth who is the creator of ALL the scallywaggery that you doth see!
My loyal liege and I are bound by together by feudal law, so together we must remain, much in the manner of those famous duos - The Hoff and Pammie, Dame Edna and her bridesmaid Madge Allsop, and the boys from Wham!, whose names (together) all go down in history!
My Lady, blow, thou Camino wind
Thou art not so unkind,
As this pilgrim's ingratitude.
A pilgrim does not demand , he is grateful.
As You Like It, Act II, Scene VII"
"There are no strangers or (tricky youths), only friends thou hast not as yet met".
"What a piece of work is a man (with the name of pilgrim b!)! How noble in reason!"*
My thanks to you for all the quotes posted with such good humour within this thread - it's been a lot of fun.
Cheers and thanks again -
Jenny
* Hamlet: II,ii
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