Correct. I struggled with "Yon" (how I learned it in high school) vs. "Yond" (what the sources say now). I went with "Yond" because the D stands for defense.
Many people do not know this, but Shakespeare invented basketball. Here are ten quotes I offer as proof.
1. Had she affections and warm youthful blood, / She would be as swift in motion as a ball...
2. Yet there has been knights, and / lords, and gentlemen, with their coaches, I warrant / you, coach after coach, letter after letter, gift / after gift; smelling so sweetly, all musk...
3. Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, / Grapple them unto thy soul with hoops of steel...
4. This is mere practice, Gloucester.
5. Since when, I pray you, sir? / God's light, with two points on your shoulder? Much!
6. My father's wit and my mother's tongue, assist me!
7. I do feel, / By the rebound of yours, a grief that smites / My very heart at root.
8. The good gods assuage thy / wrath, and turn the dregs of it upon this varlet / here,—this, who, like a block, hath denied my / access to thee.
9. But, cousin, what if we assay'd to steal / The clownish fool out of your father's court? / Would he not be a comfort to our travel?
10. It must be thought on. If it pass against us, / We lose the better half of our possession...
11. The robbed that smiles steals something from the thief.
12. and without any pause or staggering take this basket on your shoulders.
That's all I got without searching for quotes I didn't already know. (And I had to look up the second one to check on the wording.)
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So far, my favorite Shakespeare line that I've gotten to say on stage is "We are the only love gods", delivered while holding a glass of "champagne". Everybody else clinked glasses with me, then we walked off stage. Great fun.
I played the part that gets to say "The robbed that smiles steals something from the thief" but it was an outdoor production and we had to cut the run time down to 100 minutes, so, that line was lost. It's my favorite line from Othello.
Wally is a fraternity brother of mine and I urged him to partake in this thread! He and his lovely wife were theater co-directors at the Lakeland Cultural Arts little theater in Littleton, NC for many years. It was known as the busiest littler theater in the country, putting on 16 shows/year. Then he (they) went to England for 18 months where he got a Masters in Shakespeare at Brunell University. When he returned he got a job teaching theater at Louisburg College, just north of Durham. He retired last year. But he still knows his Bard. Ask him if he believes that Billieboy actually wrote the plays credited to him? LOL
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I have decided that my "theme quote" for 2020 is "Methought I was enamoured of an [redacted, rhymes with class]."
" I know thee well, a serviceable villain. As duteous to the vices of thy mistress as badness would desire".