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diff --git a/old/68539-0.txt b/old/68539-0.txt deleted file mode 100644 index c738fbf..0000000 --- a/old/68539-0.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,869 +0,0 @@ -The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Shakespeare garden club, by Mabel -M. Moran - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and -most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions -whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms -of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at -www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you -will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before -using this eBook. - -Title: The Shakespeare garden club - A fantasy - -Author: Mabel M. Moran - -Release Date: July 16, 2022 [eBook #68539] - -Language: English - -Produced by: Charlene Taylor, David E. Brown, and the Online Distributed - Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was - produced from images generously made available by The - Internet Archive/American Libraries.) - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SHAKESPEARE GARDEN -CLUB *** - - - - - - The Shakespeare Garden Club - - A FANTASY - - --by-- - - Mabel M. Moran - of the - Larchmont Garden Club - Larchmont, N. Y. - - [Illustration] - - Copyright 1919. By Mabel M. Moran. - - - - -CAST - - - Ann Hathaway - Mistress Page - Mistress Ford - Lady Macbeth - Perdita - Cordelia - Desdemona - Katherine - Jessica - Portia - Rosalind - Juliet - Titania - Ophelia - Rosaline - Cleopatra - - - - -The Shakespeare Garden Club - -A FANTASY - -By MABEL M. MORAN. - - -SCENE: A room in Ann Hathaway’s cottage at Stratford-on-Avon. -Furnishing in keeping with the period. - -(As curtain rises Ann is in the act of placing chairs, benches etc., in -a semi-circle around the room; in center of circle is a long chest to -be used as desk for the presiding officer. - -Noise is heard at door. Ann runs and opens same. Enter Mistress Page -and Mistress Ford,--with animated flutter). - - ANN: Mistress Page (kisses) and Mistress Ford (more kisses). No finer - sight ere greeted eye than you two dear ladies--nor never did I need - you more. - - PAGE: How now? - - FORD: And why is this? - - ANN: Forsooth, ’tis a meeting here to-day of the Shakespeare Garden - Club--and like to be grave and solemn, so none better than you Merry - Wives of Windsor to cheer me up. - - PAGE: A meeting--a-lack-a-day--may we stay? We are not members. - - ANN: Oh, you are my guests--and most welcome. - - FORD: Do we know the ladies? - - ANN: Nearly all, I trow, there’s the President, Lady Macbeth. - - PAGE: She was ever all dignity--and ambition. - - ANN: And the Secretary is Portia, the attorney-at-law. - - FORD: A-la-la, she’ll make you toe the mark. - - ANN: Jessica, Shylock’s daughter, is Treasurer. - - PAGE: No one dares owe dues to her, I’ll warrant. - - ANN: But sit you down, and have a merry gossip together. Methinks the - ladies do arrive. - - (Knock on door. Perdita enters, greeting and handshaking) - - ANN: (Aside to wives as Perdita crosses stage and takes chair at - end) You remember the Winters’ Tale they told of her? (Wives nod - energetically) - - ANN: And here comes Desdemona, wife of Othello. - - Enter Desdemona. (sits by Perdita) - - PAGE: (aside) How could she ever have married that horrid black man? - - Enter Cordelia. - - FORD: I have never met her, she’s daughter to King Lear, a cranky - father and hard to please, but she’s a lovely religious woman. - - Enter Katherine. - - PAGE: Why that’s Petrucio’s wife, the one they called the Shrew, she - hath an untamed twinkle in her eye. - - Enter Jessica. - (sits at table) - - FORD: Shylock’s daughter, she keeps him guessing I’ll warrant. - - Enter Rosalind. - (in man’s attire) - - PAGE: That must be Rosalind, she always did love the doublet and - hose, but--as you like it--so do it, say I. - - Enter Portia. - (Mortar-board and gown) - (Sits at center table.) - - FORD: ’Tis Portia, the lawyer, and most successful. She’ll win a case - tho it be for the Queen or only for a pound of flesh. - - Enter Juliet. - - PAGE: That’s Romeo’s wife, Juliet Capulet that was; for a run-away - match I hear they’re very happy. - - Enter Titania. - - FORD: There’s a woman I cannot understand. She seems ever to dwell in - a sort of Midsummer Night’s Dream. - - Enter Ophelia. - - PAGE: That girl gives me the shivers, tho some say she makes a fine - wife to that melancholy Dane named Hamlet. - - Enter Cleopatra. - (Regally attired in Egyptian draperies) - - FORD: My word! ’Tis well our husbands are not here, that woman is a - vampire. - - (Enter in numbers minor characters and take seats, much chatting, - laughing, etc., until) - Enter Lady Macbeth. - (All rise and bow, she takes seat at center of table and raps) - The meeting comes to order. - - LADY MACBETH: (rising and speaking with much dignity) Ladies of the - Shakespeare Garden Club: We have a long and arduous meeting before - us. Do I impose too much upon the milk of human kindness when I beg - that the minutes of the previous meeting be omitted? - - PORTIA: (Jumping to her feet) I do protest, Madam, there is no power - in Stratford that can alter a decree established. - - KATHERINE: How now! Must we listen to the law again to-day, Portia? - Go to--let’s get on! - - LADY MACBETH: Oh well, what were done, when ’tis done then ’twere - well it were done quickly. Madam Secretary--the minutes. - - PORTIA: (reading) The 12th meeting of the Shakespeare Garden Club - was held on March 15th (interruption from a member) Oh the Ides of - March! The Ides of March. (grows faint and is fanned by companions.) - - MISTRESS PAGE: Poor soul, that is Caesar’s wife. - - PORTIA: (continues) The meeting was at the home of Juliet Montague - and was addressed by Will Shakespeare himself, who hath told us in - strong words of the unsightly condition of the banks of the River - Avon. Willow trees uprooted, old rushes strewn about; broken - flagons, and stray odds and ends of all unsavory things, even unto - defunct felines, lie on the edge of our lovely waterway, and it was - urged by our most beloved leader that this Club take the matter in - hand and clear away the filth and grow Plants, Flowers and Fruits - along the river’s banks. ’Twas moved by Desdemona, seconded by - Rosalind, and carried that our Garden Club should attend unto this - work. - - LADY MACBETH: (rising) Enough! Thus thou must do, if thou’d have it, - let us hear what our members have in mind. - - PORTIA: Madam President, there is more to read. - - JESSICA: Sit you down, Portia, and let me read my report upon the - ducats in our treasury. - - PORTIA: Jessica, thou art indeed thy father’s child. Shylock ever - thought upon the ducats. - - LADY MACBETH: Ladies, enough of this. Ambition for our Club is our - dear wish. Let’s on with business. Who hath considered this matter - and can name some fair flowers to carpet Avon’s banks? - - (looks about questioningly, a member rises) - - Ah Titania! - - TITANIA: Madam President, my suggestions come from realms of fairy - land as I dream, half-waking, on a bank where the wild thyme blows; - where oxlips and the nodding violet grows. Quite over canopied with - luscious woodbine, with sweet musk roses, and with eglantine. I - dream of pease blossoms and mustard seed and canker roses (tho some - call them wild) and honeysuckle and ivy--(which I trow is feminine - because it requires support). I give you dewberries and apricots, - and love-in-idleness, and there is cupid’s flower and Dian’s bud, - which is but an herb, but brewed will keep men and women chaste. - - MISTRESS FORD: (aside) Best brew some for Cleopatra. - - TITANIA: (continues) These, Madam President, are what I would grow on - Avon’s marshy banks. (sits down) - - LADY MACBETH: Titania hath named a worthy list, let all in favor - signify in the usual way. - - (Members applaud and murmur “aye, aye”) - - LADY MACBETH: (looking about) Juliet, do I see you wish to speak? - - JULIET: Madam President, Romeo says the plaintain leaf is most - excellent for healing bruises, why not grow that? And Friar Lawrence - knows many precious juic-ed flowers that kill the poisons of baleful - weeds. Such weeds as the mandrake that shrieks like living mortals - when torn from the earth. And surely we must have a pomegranate tree, - for Romeo and I both know that the nightingale loves to sing in the - branches, and the nightingale sings far sweeter than the lark. - - JESSICA: Oh you romantic child, still thinking of your honeymoon. - - LADY MACBETH: Ladies, your approval? (Applause and “ayes”) - - OPHELIA: (very timidly) Madam President? - - KATHERINE: (aside) Have we to listen to Ophelia? Everyone knows she - hath bats in her belfry. - - ROSALIND: Hush, Kate, Hamlet hath changed her mind since they were - wed, she’s sane enough now. - - KATHERINE: Hamlet and Petrucio must be of the same kin, Petrucio made - me change some, forsooth. - - OPHELIA: (in louder tones) Madam President. - - LADY MACBETH: Ah Ophelia, speak up my child. - - OPHELIA: Madam, I move we plant rosemary, that’s for remembrance - and a chosen emblem for weddings and funerals. And pansies, they’re - for thought, tho Madam Titania called them “love-in-idleness.” - Fennel, too, we should have, that’s for flatterers, tho some say the - gladiators mixed it with their daily food, to make them fierce and - rude. Columbine is pretty, but it means unfaithfulness--and forsaken - lovers--let’s not plant that. Then we must have rue, for its other - name is herb of grace--we all need that. And daisies, shall we plant - those? They mean to “dissemble.” But oh dear Madam, I pray you let - us have violets--and violets and violets, for they mean - faithfulness. (sits down) - - KATHERINE: Madam President, I move we cheer Ophelia, she hath told us - useful things. (Members--“Aye, aye, aye!”) - - LADY MACBETH: (Raps for quiet) Peace ladies, time passes, we must - hasten, are there more suggestions? - - PERDITA: Madam President--Now Jove give me courage, I do so tremble - when I speak--we should plant lavender and mint, and savory, and - marjoram, and pale primroses--fairest flowers of their season would - show star-like on Avon’s banks, while the flower-de-luce and crown - imperial would rear their lily heads in majesty gainst the foliage - of willows. We could also have carnations and gillyvors, tho I like - them not. - - (sits down hastily) - - KATHERINE: Madam President. Perdita is so shy she will not tell - why she likes not the carnation and the gillyvors, but I know ’tis - because they both are streaked with red and white and look like - painted women. - - MISTRESS FORD: (aside) Let’s call Cleopatra “gilly” for short. - - CORDELIA: Madam President. - - LADY MACBETH: Cordelia has the floor. - - CORDELIA: Ladies, I ask your indulgence while I tell you a short but - sweet tale of the Crown Imperial. This flower, which we sometimes - call the Canterbury Bells, was first made white and erect and grew - to its full beauty in the Garden of Gethsemane where it was oft - noted and admired by our Lord, but on the night of the Agony, as he - passed through the Garden, all the other flowers bowed their heads - in sorrowful adoration, save the Crown Imperial, which alone - remained with its head unbowed, but not for long. Sorrow and shame - soon took the place of pride, and tears and painful blushes - followed, and so hath she ever remained with bent blossoms unto this - very day. (Murmurs and nods from members) - - MISTRESS FORD: (aside) Did I not say Cordelia was a fine religious - woman? - - ROSALINE: Madam President? - - LADY MACBETH: Rosaline, my dear, I rejoice to hear you speak. - - ROSALINE: Dear Madam, I recall a sweet song of my childhood, learned - before I knew that sometimes Love’s Labor’s Lost. It paints a - picture of springtime. (Sings) - - When daisies pied and violets blue - And lady-smocks all silver white - And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue - Do paint the meadows with delight. - - Surely this would apply to Avon’s banks as well. - - LADY MACBETH: Quite likely, child, ’tis a pretty chant, we thank you. - (looks slowly around circle) Ah, Cleopatra, have you no suggestions? - - (Cleopatra rises languidly and poses) - - CLEOPATRA: Madam President, age cannot wither, nor custom stale the - infinite variety of my memories of Egypt’s bounteous blooms; but - alas! They would shrivel and die in your cold clime. Would that you - might see green figs grow, and ripe luscious olives. And Oh for a - glimpse of the date trees on the Nile, or a whiff of the orange - blossoms’ perfume. Could you but imagine the beauty of the lemon - tree heavy with golden fruit, or the loveliness of the lime. The - dusky purple of Egypt’s wine-like grapes lies ever in mine eye, and - I dream of the wondrous green of the Aspic vine. Yet perchance that - which I love most is the polished sheen of laurel leaves, for - Anthony and I wore laurel chaplets on our brows throughout the year. - (Sinks back into seat) - - MISTRESS PAGE: My word, she treats us English like 30 farthings. - - LADY MACBETH: My lady Cleopatra hath told us what we may not have. - - OPHELIA: (rising hastily) Dear lady, let me tell you what we must not - have, ’tis aconite, bracken, bramble and brier, burs, burdock and - cockle, duckweed and hemlock, insane-root, nettles and opium. All - these are evil things. Let’s none of them. - - (Members murmur and shiver) - - PORTIA: The law would call this a process of elimination. - - ROSALIND: Madam President, I speak for the greenwood tree, for trees - are my delight. ’Twas but a while ago that I found a man haunting - the forest and abusing our young plants with carving “Rosalind” on - their bark. Hanging odes on Hawthornes, and elegies on - brambles--forsooth deifying the name of Rosalind. I soon stopped - that. - - KATHERINE: Brave girl, what did you do? - - ROSALIND: (laughing) I married him. - - LADY MACBETH: Mistress Ford, have you a thought to add to our growing - list? - - MISTRESS FORD: (rising and bowing low) My lady, I thank you for your - courtesy to one outside your club, and being a good housewife I - would speak for grains. You should plant barley, corn and oats, rye - and wheat. Then too, there’s spices, ginger, nutmeg and mace--oh - yes, and mustard, thyme and savory. - - MISTRESS PAGE: (rising quickly) Dear Madam, I, too, am a good - housewife, pray let me speak for what we can never neglect, good - vegetables. There’s cabbage and carrots, beans and peas, lettuce and - mushrooms, and onions, garlic and leeks. - - LADY MACBETH: Ladies! Mine ears are weighted with sounds of food. - Pray let us not consider onions--garlic and leeks--or all the - perfume of Arabia will not sweeten this little land. - - CORDELIA: Dear Madam, I fear to annoy, but would the name of - berries fall heavy on thine ear? We should grow some of these - along the bank; say blueberries and blackberries, currants, and - dewberries, gooseberries, mulberries and strawberries, and if we - grow strawberries we must remember that our own King Henry the - Fifth hath said: “The strawberry grows underneath the nettle, and - wholesome berries thrive and ripen best, neighbored by fruit of - baser quality.” Are we humans like that, I wonder? - - LADY MACBETH: (Turning to Portia) Madam Secretary, are you able to - make notes--these thoughts come in thick and fast. - - PORTIA: Aye, Madam, and I crave your mercy, and beg that the quality - of mercy is not strained, for Ann Hathaway has asked that we leave - not out of our discussion the trees that Master Shakespeare loves - so well. If a suggestion from me comes not amiss, it would seem wise - that our members now sitting in this half circle should try, as in - our childhood games, to name the trees in order, alphabetical, each - taking her turn according to the letter, what say you, Madam? - - LADY MACBETH: Most admirable. Shall we begin at this end with - Mistress Page? - - MISTRESS PAGE: Do I understand that I am to name all trees I canst - remember beginning with the letter ‘A?’ - - PORTIA: That is my thought, and when you have finished just tap your - neighbor and she will start with ‘B.’ - - MISTRESS PAGE: (Thoughtfully) Almond, ash, aspen, apple, that’s all. - (taps Mistress Ford) - - MISTRESS FORD: Balsam, bay, birch, box. - - (much excitement among members, all trying to think, etc.) (Much - original business) - - NEXT: Cherry, chestnut, crabapple, cypress. - - NEXT: Elm and elder. - - NEXT: Fig, filbert and fir. - - NEXT: Hazlenut and holly. - - NEXT: Lemon, lime and linden. - - NEXT: Oak, olive, orange. - - NEXT: Mistletoe and mulberry. - - NEXT: Palm, peach, pear, pine, plum, pomegranate. - - NEXT: Quince. - - NEXT: Sycamore. - - NEXT: Walnut and willow. - - NEXT: Yew-tree. - - ANN HATHAWAY: Will Shakespeare would love that game, and thank the - players, ’tis a goodly list of trees to cast welcome shade on Avon’s - banks. - - LADY MACBETH: Ladies, we may rest content, our meeting hath - accomplished much, is there further discussion for our Garden Club? - - DESDEMONA: Madam, my husband’s friend, Iago, (tho I like nor trust him - not) hath a pretty wit and hath likened us to gardens in these - words: “Our bodies are our gardens, to which our wills are - gardeners, so that if we will plant nettles or sow lettuce, set - hyssop, and weed up thyme, supply it with one gender of herbs, or - distract it with many, either to have it sterile with idleness or - manured with industry, why the power and corrigible authority of - this lies in our wills.” (sits down) - - LADY MACBETH: True, child, very true. Ladies, let me prophesy, that - when our members have died, and worms have eaten them and Master - Shakespeare himself hath become but ancient history--garden clubs in - times to come will remember fair Avon’s shores made lovely by your - sweet suggestions. - - CLEOPATRA: (languidly) Madam, I move we adjourn. - - - Curtain. - - - - -TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES: - - - Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. - - Inconsistencies in hyphenation have been standardized. - - Archaic or variant spelling has been retained. - - The cover image for this eBook was created by the transcriber and is - entered into the public domain. - -*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SHAKESPEARE GARDEN -CLUB *** - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will -be renamed. - -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the -United States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. 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