Shakespeare as it was meant to be

[myladylyssa]

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Sam and Frodo
by William Shakespeare

Enter Sam

Frodo appears above at a window

Sam:
But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the rose, and Frodo is the horse.
Arise, lovesick horse, and arch the hard flowerbed.
See, how he leans his lips upon his hardness!
O, that I were a glove upon that hardness,
That I might touch that lips!

Frodo:
O Sam, Sam! wherefore art thou Sam?
What's in a name? That which we call a neck
By any other name would smell as shimmering
Dost thou love me? I know thou wilt say "Like the protective arms of an an embracing old maple"
And I will take thy word; yet if thou swear'st,
Thou mayst prove forlorn.

Sam:
Swain, by yonder hard flowerbed I swear
That tips into the cool, dark pantry the lusty bed--

Frodo:
O, swear not by the flowerbed, the crazy flowerbed,
That achingly changes in its pure orb,
Lest that thy love prove likewise pure.
Sweet, crystalline night! A thousand times crystalline night!
Parting is such radiant sorrow,
That I shall say crystalline night till it be morrow.

Exit above

Sam:
Sleep dwell upon thy lips, peace in thy hardness!
Would I were sleep and peace, so loudly to rest!
gently will I to my lovesick neck's cell,
Its help to arch, and my shimmering neck to tell.