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And that I love the tree from whence thou sprang’st

Henry VI 3: 5.7.31

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November 9, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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His wonted sleep under a fresh tree’s shade

Henry VI Pt 3: 2.5.49

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November 16, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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There stands the castle, by yon tuft of trees

King Richard II 2.3.53

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December 14, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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Overcome with moss and baleful mistletoe

Titus Andronicus 2.3.95

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December 21, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Shakespeare was a pioneer of new phrases and as it turns out... 6-7 (or being at sixes and sevens) has been around for quite some time! Even as we see showing up in the canon. Shakespeare is ever relevant!

Does this mean we can bring back 'Zounds? 🤣🙏🏼

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November 14, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Here, father, take the shadow of this tree

King Lear 5.2.1

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June 15, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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Happy Birthday, Ben Jonson! He’s considered the 2nd most important playwright & poet to Shakespeare. Probably his best known lines are from his preface to Shakespeare’s First Folio of 1623, such as:

“Soule of the Age !
The applause ! delight ! the wonder of our Stage !

Happy B-day, Ben!
June 11, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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This weekend's #ShakespeareSunday theme: QUARRELS and CONFLICT
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June 6, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Ye favorites of a king, are we not high?

King Richard II 3.2.88

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ticl.me TiCL 🍃💚🍃 @ticl.me · Jun 1
The original #Boscobel oak was chosen as a hiding place by Charles II in 1651

Its successor, the current (higher) tree here, was planted in the C18

The smaller #tree (and one day successor) was planted next to it by the then Prince, now King, Charles III in 2001
June 1, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Our next Tree List is Chaucerian, from Parliament of Fowls. In this list, he gives us meanings & uses for the trees, something we love especially. It’s not the only time Chaucer takes to listing trees. Check the comments with a h/t to an essay by Ingo Berensmeyer:
May 31, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Spenser - like Shakespeare (with a difference 😉) - is part of a storied tradition of poets cataloguing trees (like Chaucer to Ovid to Virgil, & more!) This is Spenser
"preserving" trees in The Faerie Queene.

But some of these ancient trees are in peril. Read on for more…🌳
May 30, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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"You must borrow me Gargantua's mouth first; 'tis a word to great for any mouth of this age's size." ~Celia, As You Like It

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May 25, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.
Comedy of Errors III. i.

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May 25, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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‘The thickest and the tallest’

Love’s Labour’s Lost 4.1.45

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ticl.me TiCL 🍃💚🍃 @ticl.me · May 25
The #Richmond Riverside #London plane 🌳 is the #TALLEST of its kind in the capital 🤩

#GreatTreesof #London #GTOL

Great Trees of Britain 🏆🌳🇬🇧 #GTOB

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May 25, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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He brings you figs

Antony & Cleopatra 5.2.236

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April 6, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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#OTD 5 Mar 1549

The Bill of Attainder passed against #ThomasSeymour of Sudeley Castle for attempted kidnap of nephew #EdwardVI & plotting to marry Princess Elizabeth

Much liked by his contemporaries, our 21st Cent values label him a cad or was he simply misguided?

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March 5, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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#ShakespeareSunday

"What is the matter, my lord?"

"Between who?"

"I mean, the matter that you read, my lord."

"Slanders, sir ..."

Hamlet
March 2, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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Today's #ShakespeareSunday theme: READING & WRITING!
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March 2, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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"If this be so, why blame you me to love you?"~ Phebe, As You Like It

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#love
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Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them unto thy soul with hoops of steel.

H 1.3 #ShakespeareSunday
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February 16, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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"I know no ways to mince it in love, but directly to say 'I love you:'" - Henry V (A5, S2) #Shakespeare #BardLove #ValentinesDay
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February 14, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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February 9, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Painfully to pore upon a book
To seek the light of truth.

Love's Labours Lost
Act I Scene 1
#ShakespeareSunday
#TruthAndAppearances
#LOTR #Gandalf
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February 9, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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"I can add colors to the chameleon"
~Richard of Gloucester,
3 Henry VI

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February 9, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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"Why, I can smile, and murder whiles I smile,
And cry 'Content' to that which grieves my heart,
And wet my cheeks with artificial tears,
And frame my face to all occasions."
~ Richard of Gloucester, 3 Henry IV

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Ralph Fiennes plays Richard III: 'I can add colours to the chameleon'
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