Shakespeare on the Crash of 2008

[Garpal Gumnut]

Whenever I feel melancholy I get out a well thumbed text of Shakespeare.

I found this on our present mess.

I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable.
2 Henry IV (1.2.74)

Can anyone find similar in the bard's writings?

gg

 

[Indie]

Timon of Athens:

FLAVIUS:
Good fellows all,
The latest of my wealth I'll share amongst you.
Wherever we shall meet, for Timon's sake,
Let's yet be fellows; let's shake our heads, and say,
As 'twere a knell unto our master's fortunes,
'We have seen better days.' Let each take some;
Nay, put out all your hands. Not one word more:
Thus part we rich in sorrow, parting poor.

 

[Whiskers]

Not from that bard, but it's my latest whenever I feel melancholy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZbKHDPPrrc

 

[Garpal Gumnut]

Not from that bard, but it's my latest whenever I feel melancholy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZbKHDPPrrc

I'm sure its good mate but let us keep it to the bard.

gg

 

[kevo]

Polonius to his son Laertes -

Polonius:
Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
Hamlet Act 1, scene 3, 75–77

 

[2020hindsight]

I suspect this might be of use to a Kiwi - advice on how to get rich with parti-coloured sheep

The Merchant of Venice ; Act I, scene III

SHYLOCK: Methought you said you neither lend nor borrow
Upon advantage.

ANTONIO: I do never use it.

SHYLOCK: When Jacob grazed his uncle Laban's sheep--
This Jacob from our holy Abram was,
As his wise mother wrought in his behalf,
The third possessor; ay, he was the third--

ANTONIO: And what of him? did he take interest?

SHYLOCK: No, not take interest, not, as you would say,
Directly interest: mark what Jacob did.

When Laban and himself were compromised
That all the eanlings which were streak'd and pied
Should fall as Jacob's hire, the ewes, being rank,
In the end of autumn turned to the rams,
And, when the work of generation was
Between these woolly breeders in the act,
The skilful shepherd peel'd me certain wands,
And, in the doing of the deed of kind,
He stuck them up before the fulsome ewes,
Who then conceiving did in eaning time
Fall parti-colour'd lambs, and those were Jacob's.
This was a way to thrive, and he was blest:
And thrift is blessing, if men steal it not.

:eek3:

 

[xyzedarteerf]

[Thou] hath more hair than wit, and more faults than hairs, and more wealth than faults.

Taken from: The Two Gentlemen of Verona

 

[wallyt99]

Of China and America -
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The Merry Wives Of Windsor Act 2, scene 2, 2–5

Falstaff: (Wu Jin Tow)
I will not lend thee a penny.

Pistol: (George W)
Why then the world's mine oyster,
Which I with sword will open.

Falstaff: (Wu Jin Tow)
Not a penny.



Of the eventual collapse of Paper Money
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Othello Act 3, scene 3, 155–161

Iago:
Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing;
'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands;
But he that filches from me my good name
Robs me of that which not enriches him,
And makes me poor indeed.


On the Collapse of the U.S Financial empire
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Antony And Cleopatra Act 1, scene 1, 29–36

Antony:
Let Rome in Tiber melt, and the wide arch
Of the rang'd empire fall! Here is my space,
Kingdoms are clay; our dungy earth alike
Feeds beast as man. . . .

 

[wallyt99]

"Loans made easy, Only at Shakespeare Finance company."

http://www.shakespearefinance.co.uk/

 

[2020hindsight]

[Thou] hath more hair than wit, and more faults than hairs, and more wealth than faults.

Taken from: The Two Gentlemen of Verona

lol - good one xyz
likewise wally, kevo

 

[Rockhoundnz]

You guys come up with some weird stuff sometimes! :