Part 2 - Parallels between Bacon's Promus and Romeo and Juliet
(with special emphasis on Promus Folio 112)
(with special emphasis on Promus Folio 112)
Part 2f
R&J 1.4.14-16
(The Capulet Ball is starting. Mercutio urges Romeo to dance):
Romeo: Not I, believe me. You have dancing shoes
With nimble soles, I have a soul of lead
So stakes me to the ground I cannot move.
With nimble soles, I have a soul of lead
So stakes me to the ground I cannot move.
Bacon's Promus entry 580 (from Folio 94B):
"Assaj ben balla a chi fortuna suona" ["He dances well to whom fortune plays a tune"]
Comment: Fortune is not playing Romeo a tune because Rosaline has rejected his love.
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R&J 1.5.45
"As a rich jewel in a Ethiop's ear"
Bacon's Promus entry 687 (in Folio 97F):
"A ring of gold on a swine's snout" [from Proverbs XI 22].
Comment: A similar idea.
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R&J Act 2 Prologue 1
"Now old desire doth in his death bed lie" [i.e. Romeo's desire for Rosaline]
Bacon's Promus entry 1472 (from Folio 130):
"Il commence bien a mourir qui abandonne son desir" ["He who abandons his desire begins to die"]
Comment: A different thought from the Shake-Speare line but both deal with the death of desire.
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