I go away for a few weeks

[Satanic Ram]

And everyone is at each others throats!

[Altobelli]

Aye, you have missed all the fun Satanic, if you could call it fun. all's well that ends well (who wrote that sh1t ?).

[Altobelli]

Just Googled it.

This is, of course, best known from the Shakespeare play, but it was a proverb before it was a play title.

John Heywood included it in A dialogue conteinyng the nomber in effect of all the prouerbes in the Englishe tongue, 1546:


Lovers live by love, ye as larkes live by leekes
Saied this Ales, muche more then halfe in mockage.
Tushe (quoth mine aunte) these lovers in dotage
Thinke the ground beare them not, but wed of corage
They must in all haste, though a leafe of borage
Might by all the substance that they can fell.
Well aunt (quoth Ales) all is well that endes well.

Shakespeare was well acquainted with Heywood's work and wrote All's Well That Ends Well in 1601. It is not only as the title of the play, but line appears in the text too.


HELENA:
Yet, I pray you:
But with the word the time will bring on summer,
When briers shall have leaves as well as thorns,
And be as sweet as sharp. We must away;
Our wagon is prepared, and ti

[swaledale]

[quote="Altobelli"]Just Googled it.

This is, of course, best known from the Shakespeare play, but it was a proverb before it was a play title.

John Heywood included it in A dialogue conteinyng the nomber in effect of all the prouerbes in the Englishe tongue, 1546:


Lovers live by love, ye as larkes live by leekes
Saied this Ales, muche more then halfe in mockage.
Tushe (quoth mine aunte) these lovers in dotage
Thinke the ground beare them not, but wed of corage
They must in all haste, though a leafe of borage
Might by all the substance that they can fell.
Well aunt (quoth Ales) all is well that endes well.

Shakespeare was well acquainted with Heywood's work and wrote All's Well That Ends Well in 1601. It is not only as the title of the play, but line appears in the text too.


HELENA:
Yet, I pray you:
But with the word the time will bring on summer,
When briers shall have leaves as well as thorns,
And be as sweet as sharp. W

[Turfmoorspirit]

And everyone is at each others throats!

So what's different.. ?

[Rattea]

It's been like a twilight convention!!!

Luckily I always prevail as I have a handbag of garlic

[swaledale]

It's been like a twilight convention!!!

Luckily I always prevail as I have a handbag of garlic

I'm impressed, never saw you as a style guru

[Rattea]

It's a fine line Swale ..... Between fashion guru and handbag envy

[swaledale]

It's a fine line Swale ..... Between fashion guru and handbag envy

Oh I know dear, I'm thinking of getting my shell suit out of the wardrobe, it must be time for those to get back in fashion.

[Acido]

Nice to see a bit of culture on this board.
Welcome back Satanic. yes there has been a bit of a kerfuffle, but I think all the handbags have now been put down!

Nice use of the word kerfuffle there Swale, its an important word and we should all use it a bit more on here. in fact, its almost on a par with gobbledegook