Sunday, August 7, 2011

Shakespeare for Hangovers

Shakespeare, Othello, (Act II, Sc. iii, 274-8, 81-3)
Casio:  I remember a mass of things, but nothing dis-
tinctly; a quarrel, but nothing wherefore.  O God! that
men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away
their brains; that we should, with joy, pleasance, revel,
and applause, transform ourselves into beasts.
...
It hath pleased the devil drunkeness to give place
to the devil wrath; one unperfectness shows me another,
to make me frankly despise myself.


Antony and Cleopatra, (Act II, Scene 2, 182-3)
Enobarbus: Ay sir; we did sleep day out of countenance,
and made the night light with drinking.

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