Alison
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“Justice, O royal Duke! Vail your regard
Upon a wronged—I would fain have said a maid.
O worthy prince, dishonor not your eye
By throwing it on any other object
Till you have heard me in my true complaint,
And given me justice, justice, justice, justice!”
#TheBard_ProblemPlays
Upon a wronged—I would fain have said a maid.
O worthy prince, dishonor not your eye
By throwing it on any other object
Till you have heard me in my true complaint,
And given me justice, justice, justice, justice!”
#TheBard_ProblemPlays
January 16, 2026 at 10:08 PM
“Justice, O royal Duke! Vail your regard
Upon a wronged—I would fain have said a maid.
O worthy prince, dishonor not your eye
By throwing it on any other object
Till you have heard me in my true complaint,
And given me justice, justice, justice, justice!”
#TheBard_ProblemPlays
Upon a wronged—I would fain have said a maid.
O worthy prince, dishonor not your eye
By throwing it on any other object
Till you have heard me in my true complaint,
And given me justice, justice, justice, justice!”
#TheBard_ProblemPlays
“Come, I have found you out a stand most fit,
Where you may have such vantage on the duke,
He shall not pass you. Twice the trumpets sounded:
The generous and gravest citizens
Have hent the gates, and very near upon
The duke is ent’ring: therefore, hence away!”
#TheBard_ProblemPlays
Where you may have such vantage on the duke,
He shall not pass you. Twice the trumpets sounded:
The generous and gravest citizens
Have hent the gates, and very near upon
The duke is ent’ring: therefore, hence away!”
#TheBard_ProblemPlays
January 15, 2026 at 10:57 PM
“Come, I have found you out a stand most fit,
Where you may have such vantage on the duke,
He shall not pass you. Twice the trumpets sounded:
The generous and gravest citizens
Have hent the gates, and very near upon
The duke is ent’ring: therefore, hence away!”
#TheBard_ProblemPlays
Where you may have such vantage on the duke,
He shall not pass you. Twice the trumpets sounded:
The generous and gravest citizens
Have hent the gates, and very near upon
The duke is ent’ring: therefore, hence away!”
#TheBard_ProblemPlays
January 14, 2026 at 9:09 PM
“A pox o’ your throats! Who makes that noise there? What are you?”
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January 13, 2026 at 9:05 PM
“A pox o’ your throats! Who makes that noise there? What are you?”
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“Come on, bawd. I will instruct thee in my trade; follow.”
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January 13, 2026 at 12:40 AM
“Come on, bawd. I will instruct thee in my trade; follow.”
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“Take, O, take those lips away,
That so sweetly were forsworn;
And those eyes, the break of day,
Lights that do mislead the morn;
But my kisses bring again, bring again;
Seals of love, but sealed in vain, sealed in vain.”
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That so sweetly were forsworn;
And those eyes, the break of day,
Lights that do mislead the morn;
But my kisses bring again, bring again;
Seals of love, but sealed in vain, sealed in vain.”
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January 11, 2026 at 8:27 PM
“Take, O, take those lips away,
That so sweetly were forsworn;
And those eyes, the break of day,
Lights that do mislead the morn;
But my kisses bring again, bring again;
Seals of love, but sealed in vain, sealed in vain.”
#TheBard_ProblemPlays
That so sweetly were forsworn;
And those eyes, the break of day,
Lights that do mislead the morn;
But my kisses bring again, bring again;
Seals of love, but sealed in vain, sealed in vain.”
#TheBard_ProblemPlays
“He who the sword of heaven will bear
Should be as holy as severe;
Pattern in himself to know,
Grace to stand, and virtue go”
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Should be as holy as severe;
Pattern in himself to know,
Grace to stand, and virtue go”
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January 10, 2026 at 7:42 PM
“He who the sword of heaven will bear
Should be as holy as severe;
Pattern in himself to know,
Grace to stand, and virtue go”
#TheBard_ProblemPlays
Should be as holy as severe;
Pattern in himself to know,
Grace to stand, and virtue go”
#TheBard_ProblemPlays
January 9, 2026 at 9:33 PM
“O, fie, fie, fie!
Thy sin’s not accidental, but a trade.
Mercy to thee would prove itself a bawd:
‘Tis best that thou diest quickly.”
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Thy sin’s not accidental, but a trade.
Mercy to thee would prove itself a bawd:
‘Tis best that thou diest quickly.”
#TheBard_ProblemPlays
January 8, 2026 at 8:50 PM
“O, fie, fie, fie!
Thy sin’s not accidental, but a trade.
Mercy to thee would prove itself a bawd:
‘Tis best that thou diest quickly.”
#TheBard_ProblemPlays
Thy sin’s not accidental, but a trade.
Mercy to thee would prove itself a bawd:
‘Tis best that thou diest quickly.”
#TheBard_ProblemPlays
“I humbly thank you.
To sue to live, I find I seek to die,
And seeking death, find life: let it come on.”
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To sue to live, I find I seek to die,
And seeking death, find life: let it come on.”
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January 7, 2026 at 8:49 PM
“I humbly thank you.
To sue to live, I find I seek to die,
And seeking death, find life: let it come on.”
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To sue to live, I find I seek to die,
And seeking death, find life: let it come on.”
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“Then, Isabel, live chaste, and, brother, die:
More than our brother is our chastity.”
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More than our brother is our chastity.”
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January 6, 2026 at 9:07 PM
“Then, Isabel, live chaste, and, brother, die:
More than our brother is our chastity.”
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More than our brother is our chastity.”
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“Bound by my charity, and my blessed order,
I come to visit the afflicted spirits
Here in the prison: do me the common right
To let me see them, and to make me know
The nature of their crimes, that I may minister
To them accordingly.”
#TheBard_ProblemPlays
I come to visit the afflicted spirits
Here in the prison: do me the common right
To let me see them, and to make me know
The nature of their crimes, that I may minister
To them accordingly.”
#TheBard_ProblemPlays
January 5, 2026 at 8:44 PM
“Bound by my charity, and my blessed order,
I come to visit the afflicted spirits
Here in the prison: do me the common right
To let me see them, and to make me know
The nature of their crimes, that I may minister
To them accordingly.”
#TheBard_ProblemPlays
I come to visit the afflicted spirits
Here in the prison: do me the common right
To let me see them, and to make me know
The nature of their crimes, that I may minister
To them accordingly.”
#TheBard_ProblemPlays
“Tomorrow! O, that’s sudden! Spare him, spare him!
He’s not prepared for death.
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He’s not prepared for death.
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January 3, 2026 at 7:42 PM
“Tomorrow! O, that’s sudden! Spare him, spare him!
He’s not prepared for death.
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He’s not prepared for death.
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“We must not make a scarecrow of the law,
Setting it up to fear the birds of prey,
And let it keep one shape, till custom make it
Their perch and not their terror.”
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Setting it up to fear the birds of prey,
And let it keep one shape, till custom make it
Their perch and not their terror.”
#TheBard_ProblemPlays
December 31, 2025 at 3:28 PM
“We must not make a scarecrow of the law,
Setting it up to fear the birds of prey,
And let it keep one shape, till custom make it
Their perch and not their terror.”
#TheBard_ProblemPlays
Setting it up to fear the birds of prey,
And let it keep one shape, till custom make it
Their perch and not their terror.”
#TheBard_ProblemPlays
“Commend me to my brother; soon at night
I’ll send him certain word of my success.”
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I’ll send him certain word of my success.”
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December 29, 2025 at 6:42 PM
“Commend me to my brother; soon at night
I’ll send him certain word of my success.”
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I’ll send him certain word of my success.”
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“And have you nuns no farther privileges?”
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December 29, 2025 at 6:39 PM
“And have you nuns no farther privileges?”
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“And he supposes me travell’d to Poland;
For so I have strew’d it in the common ear,
And so it is receiv’d.”
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For so I have strew’d it in the common ear,
And so it is receiv’d.”
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December 28, 2025 at 4:14 PM
“And he supposes me travell’d to Poland;
For so I have strew’d it in the common ear,
And so it is receiv’d.”
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For so I have strew’d it in the common ear,
And so it is receiv’d.”
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“Nay, not as one would say, healthy;
but so sound as things that are hollow: thy bones are hollow; impiety has made a feast of thee.”
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but so sound as things that are hollow: thy bones are hollow; impiety has made a feast of thee.”
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December 27, 2025 at 4:02 PM
“Nay, not as one would say, healthy;
but so sound as things that are hollow: thy bones are hollow; impiety has made a feast of thee.”
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but so sound as things that are hollow: thy bones are hollow; impiety has made a feast of thee.”
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“What figure of us, think you, he will bear?
For you must know, we have with special soul
Elected him our absence to supply;
Lent him our terror, dressed him with our love,
And given his deputation all the organs
Of our own pow’r. What think you of it?”
#thebard_problemplays
For you must know, we have with special soul
Elected him our absence to supply;
Lent him our terror, dressed him with our love,
And given his deputation all the organs
Of our own pow’r. What think you of it?”
#thebard_problemplays
December 26, 2025 at 10:39 PM
“What figure of us, think you, he will bear?
For you must know, we have with special soul
Elected him our absence to supply;
Lent him our terror, dressed him with our love,
And given his deputation all the organs
Of our own pow’r. What think you of it?”
#thebard_problemplays
For you must know, we have with special soul
Elected him our absence to supply;
Lent him our terror, dressed him with our love,
And given his deputation all the organs
Of our own pow’r. What think you of it?”
#thebard_problemplays
December 26, 2025 at 10:23 PM
“What figure of us, think you, he will bear?
For you must know, we have with special soul
Elected him our absence to supply;
Lent him our terror, dressed him with our love,
And given his deputation all the organs
Of our own pow’r. What think you of it?”
#thebard_problemplays
For you must know, we have with special soul
Elected him our absence to supply;
Lent him our terror, dressed him with our love,
And given his deputation all the organs
Of our own pow’r. What think you of it?”
#thebard_problemplays
Anthony Powell, Writer, #BornOnThisDay in 1905, in Westminster, London
“Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.” (‘The Valley of Bones’)
📸 Antony Armstrong-Jones (January 16, 1978)
“Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.” (‘The Valley of Bones’)
📸 Antony Armstrong-Jones (January 16, 1978)
December 21, 2025 at 3:57 PM
“Sir Valentine,
Thou art a gentleman, and well deriv’d;
Take thou thy Silvia, for thou hast deserv’d her.”
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Thou art a gentleman, and well deriv’d;
Take thou thy Silvia, for thou hast deserv’d her.”
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December 14, 2025 at 6:17 PM
“Sir Valentine,
Thou art a gentleman, and well deriv’d;
Take thou thy Silvia, for thou hast deserv’d her.”
#twogents_2025
Thou art a gentleman, and well deriv’d;
Take thou thy Silvia, for thou hast deserv’d her.”
#twogents_2025
December 14, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Jane!
Jane!
Jane Austen at 250
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December 14, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Jane!
Jane!
“Amen, amen! go on, good Eglamour,
Out at the postern by the abbey-wall;
I fear I am attended by some spies.”
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Out at the postern by the abbey-wall;
I fear I am attended by some spies.”
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December 12, 2025 at 8:26 PM
“Amen, amen! go on, good Eglamour,
Out at the postern by the abbey-wall;
I fear I am attended by some spies.”
#twogents_2025
Out at the postern by the abbey-wall;
I fear I am attended by some spies.”
#twogents_2025