I might plead, with Shylock: "Hath not a [pale, stale male] hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?
Samuel Pepys said of the marriage: "... that the Duke of York's marriage with her hath undone the kingdom, by making the Chancellor so great above reach, who otherwise would have been but an ordinary man, to have been dealt with by other people ..."....
WHAT, prithee, is awash with seas but hath no water?
Grasping her naked breasts in her hands, Rachel pleads her case with Shakespearean gravitas, "Hath not a Jew, er, eyes?" Yowza!
" He reads out, with relish, Duke Senior's speech as he leaves the court to live in the Forest of Arden, beginning with the lines "Hath not old custom made this life more sweet/ Than that of painted pomp?/ Are not these woods/ More free from peril than the envious court?" Flynn continues: "So there's a really powerful spirituality to his sense of nature.
(Codicil to that rule: you occasionally get a pass if you write a book whining in support of someone who is dead. But even then, chance are you'll still be hit with the "hell hath no fury" tag).
I know nothing human that is so; but surely she doth not deserve the Rancour with which she hath been treated by the Public.
Some He hath only trusted with one talent, some with five, and some with ten.
Having devoured Friedrich Nietzsche as a teenager, she took his writerly advice to heart: "Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood.
This bill gave the succession to Mary's sister, Anne, in default of issue to Mary; barred Roman Catholics from the throne; abolished the Crown's power to suspend laws; condemned the power of dispensing with laws "as it hath been exercised and used of late"; and declared a standing army illegal in time of peace.
