{"id":1181,"date":"2007-03-20T13:38:54","date_gmt":"2007-03-20T20:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1181"},"modified":"2007-04-12T21:56:04","modified_gmt":"2007-04-13T04:56:04","slug":"the-silencing-of-the-lambs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1181\/the-silencing-of-the-lambs\/","title":{"rendered":"The silencing of the lambs . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

Exhibit one<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Romeo:<\/b> If I profane with my unworthiest hand
\nThis holy shrine, the gentle fine is this:
\nMy lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand
\nTo smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.<\/p>\n

Juliet:<\/b> Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much,
\nWhich mannerly devotion shows in this;
\nFor saints have hands that pilgrims’ hands do touch,
\nAnd palm to palm is holy palmers’ kiss.<\/p>\n

Romeo:<\/b> Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?<\/p>\n

Juliet:<\/b> Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.<\/p>\n

Romeo:<\/b> O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do;
\nThey pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.<\/p>\n

Juliet:<\/b> Saints do not move, though grant for prayers’ sake.<\/p>\n

Romeo:<\/b> Then move not, while my prayer’s effect I take.
\nThus from my lips, by yours, my sin is purged.<\/p>\n

Juliet:<\/b> Then have my lips the sin that they have took.<\/p>\n

Romeo:<\/b> Sin from thy lips? O trespass sweetly urged!
\nGive me my sin again.<\/p>\n

Juliet:<\/b> You kiss by the book.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Exhibit two<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

For young ladies too, it has been the intention chiefly to write; because boys being generally permitted the use of their fathers’ libraries at a much earlier age than girls are, they frequently have the best scenes of Shakespeare by heart, before their sisters are permitted to look into this manly book; and, therefore, instead of recommending these Tales to the perusal of young gentlemen who can read them so much better in the originals, their kind assistance is rather requested in explaining to their sisters such parts as are hardest for them to understand: and when they have helped them to get over the difficulties, then perhaps they will read to them (carefully selecting what is proper for a young sister’s ear) some passage which has pleased them in one of these stories, in the very words of the scene from which it is taken; and it is hoped they will find that the beautiful extracts, the select passages, they may choose to give their sisters in this way will be much better relished and understood from their having some notion of the general story from one of these imperfect abridgments; which if they be fortunately so done as to prove delightful Read more<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Exhibit one Romeo: If I profane with my unworthiest hand This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this: My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss. Juliet: Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much, Which mannerly devotion shows in this; For saints have hands that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,13,16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1181","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-blogging","7":"category-casual-friday","8":"category-weblogging-101","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16793,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/16793\/unchained-melody-sisters-of-mercy-because-leonard-cohen-deserves-better-than-this\/","url_meta":{"origin":1181,"position":0},"title":"Unchained Melody: \u201cSisters of Mercy\u201d \u2013 because Leonard Cohen deserves better than\u00a0this.","author":"Greg Swann","date":"August 29, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"So: Leonard Cohen wrote a song called \u201cHallelujah.\u201d People hear what they want to hear, so they think it's a religious song, when in fact it is a distant and self-absolving lamentation of a broken relationship. 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