finds.....

ok, so in the continuing search for the lost christmas book, i continue to find things i didn't know i had lost, things i didn't remember i had, and things i wish i could bring myself to throw away......one curious find.......a minibook of shakespeare quotations that i appear to have purchased from the Shakepeare's birthplace in Stratford-on-Avon......i was there is 1972 with my parents and my brother......and i have no recollection of buying this little book for 30 pence....but here it is, and i have enjoyed reading through it....the 1st installment is Ben Johnson's euology, done as a preface to a First Folio of Shakepeare's Works, published in 1623.......

To draw no envy on thy name,
am i thus ample to thy book and fame,
while i confess thy writings to be such,
as neither man nor muse can praise too much,

soule of the age,

Thou art a monument without a tomb,
and art alive still while thy book doth live,
and we have wits to read and praise to give

wow........ben johnson is almost as good with a turn of the word as the bard himself.....