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Nemi 📚🎶 @nemimeli.bsky.social · 6h

LOVELL
Came you from the king, my lord?

GARDINER
I did Sir Thomas, and left him at primero
With the Duke of Suffolk.

William Shakespeare
#HenryVIII_2025
V,1,6-8

Primero: a popular card game in aristocratic circles.

The Card Players (1508-1510) by Lucas van
Leyden

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David Reader 🐳📚🐦 @thepaleusher.bsky.social · 1h

Lovell

Th’ Archbishop
Is the King’s hand and tongue; and who dare speak
One syllable against him?

Gardiner

. . . I myself have ventured
To speak my mind of him.
. . . that he is—
. . .
A most arch-heretic, a pestilence
That does infect the land:
#HenryVIII_2025
Act V s1

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David Reader 🐳📚🐦 @thepaleusher.bsky.social · 1h

Western Sky

(morning view)

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Raven @ravenbranhard.bsky.social · 18h

calling it the road
the fool walked on broken glass
till his feet found light

#Photography Foolish Steve
@foolishsteve.bsky.social

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Skittles @skittlesmom.bsky.social · 1d

Leaves in the creek.

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Nemi 📚🎶 @nemimeli.bsky.social · 1d

KATHERINE

In which I have commended to his goodness
The model of our chaste loves, his young daughter
…
(She is young and of a noble modest nature,
I hope she will deserve well)

#HenryVIII_2025
IV,2,131-136

Mary Tudor (1516-58) went down in history as “Bloody Mary“.

Mary Tudor, Fitzmuseum

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christina500 @christina500.bsky.social · 1d

KATHERINE.
O my good lord, that comfort comes too late,
'Tis like a pardon after execution:
That gentle physic given in time had cured me,
But now I am past all comforts here but prayers.
How does his highness?

Act IV s2 #HenryVIII_2025 Does your edition drop "Queen" too?

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David Reader 🐳📚🐦 @thepaleusher.bsky.social · 1d

Katharine

Spirits of peace, where are ye?
#HenryVIII_2025
Act IV s2 (83)

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CelticStoic 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticstoic.bsky.social · 2d

"The one red leaf, the last of its clan,
That dances as often as dance it can,
Hanging so light, and hanging so high,
On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky.”

― Samuel Taylor Coleridge, c. 1798

From my wife's walk:

From the poem "Christabel" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Said to explore good and evil, innocence and experience, and the corrupting power of the supernatural.

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Nemi 📚🎶 @nemimeli.bsky.social · 2d

GRIFFITH

Those twins of learning that he rais'd in you,
Ipswich and Oxford; one of which fell with him,
Unwilling to outlive the good that did it

William Shakespeare
#HenryVIII_2025
IV,2,58-60

Wolsey’s Gate in Ipswich

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David Reader 🐳📚🐦 @thepaleusher.bsky.social · 2d

Griffith

He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one;
Exceeding wise, fair-spoken and persuading;
Lofty and sour to them that loved him not,
But to those men that sought him, sweet as summer.
#HenryVIII_2025
Act IV s2 (51-54)

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Wolfgang Scherreiks @wolfgangscherreiks.bsky.social · 2d

»Oh, sacrament of summer days, Oh, last communion in the haze, Permit a child to join.«
Emily Dickinson

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David Reader 🐳📚🐦 @thepaleusher.bsky.social · 2d

Found them by switching to “Latest” then “Retry”

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David Reader 🐳📚🐦 @thepaleusher.bsky.social · 3d

First Gentleman

God save you, sir! Where have you been broiling?

Third Gentleman

Among the crowd i’ th’ Abbey, where a finger
Could not be wedged in more. I am stifled
With the mere rankness of their joy.
#HenryVIII_2025
Act IV s1 (56-59)

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Nemi 📚🎶 @nemimeli.bsky.social · 3d

„The Order of the Coronation.
8. A canopy, born by four of the Cinque Ports, under it the Queen, in her robe; in her hair, richly adorned with pearl, crowned.“

#HenryVIII_2025
IV,1

Anne was seated in her litter beneath a cloth of gold which was carried by the Four Wardens of the Cinque Ports …

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Searsapple @sparrersway.bsky.social · 3d

#lifeinthecracks #plantasrebeldes

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Raven @ravenbranhard.bsky.social · 3d

no path to follow
the still breeze moves the branches
I too sway with it

#Photography Bernard Doucette
@bdoucette.bsky.social

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Annabel Lee @annabel-lee.bsky.social · 3d

#melvillemonday

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Annabel Lee @annabel-lee.bsky.social · 3d

Nantucket Island, Massachusetts

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Moo Dog Press @moodogpress.com · 11d

The will, that never can relent—

The aim, survivor of the bafflement,

Make this memorial due.

Herman Melville

#MelvilleMonday

Carved anchor, rope, leaves— stone obelisk detail. Thinking.

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Ustinoff auf Eis @ustinoff.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d

In Mardi, Melville had shifted his interest from the actual to the abstruse and symbolical, and he never recovered from the dive into metaphysics which proved fatal to him as a novelist. It was while on this perilous border that he produced the best of his […]

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Bw drawing. A whale makes a fountain, a rowing boat with sailors

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Herman Melville @melvillequotes.bsky.social · Apr 5

"All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life."
—Moby-Dick

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Moo Dog Press @moodogpress.com · 3d

“Such a portentous and mysterious monster roused all my curiosity. Then the wild and distant seas where he rolled his island bulk; the undeliverable, nameless perils of the whale…”

#MelvilleMonday

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ROSSINI, Vinicius @vsrossini.bsky.social · 5d

18° Livro: Moby Dick - Herman Melville

Acho que Melville deve ser uma das pessoas mais inteligentes e cultas do mundo. É um absurdo a quantidade de referências desse livro. Muito denso mas vale muito a pena a leitura. Uma das melhores da vida.

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Nemi 📚🎶 @nemimeli.bsky.social · 4d

Happy #MelvilleMonday ! 🐳

„Now, with the subordinate phantoms, what wonder remained soon waned away; for in a whaler wonders soon wane.“

Herman Melville
Moby-Dick
CHAPTER 50 AHAB'S BOAT AND CREW • FEDALLAH

#AmericanReadalong

Fedallah
Claus Hoie, 1911-2007
NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION

Framed and matted watercolor with Fedallah wearing white pans and turban looking out from mast. Blue-white color combination in foreground depicting ocean. Green-grey color alternation in background to show horizon.

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