! * Two quick ones... ! *

["Earl J. Moniz" <earlj@moniz.org>]

Answers to the March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb
question . . .
What a great bunch of folk we librarians are . . . but, of course,
everyone here already knows that  8-)

Thanks to Kathy and Dennis . . .
Now, all we need to do is find some surrounding text to give some
context . . . and then figure out what it all means?!  He seems to be
referring to some personal characteristics and using the weather as a
simile of sorts...
Hmmm . . . food for thought ... and me with such a weak digestive tract
. . . 8-)

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According to this site it was John Fletcher, but I can't find anything
to
confirm this.  Hope this helps.
http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/0331.htm
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This should be in many editions of the plays of Beaumont and Fletcher,
though this specific one is by Fletcher alone.  We've got it in a
number of editions, but I'm on the desk for the rest of the afternoon
and have to leave soon after, so can't retrieve a copy today.  But:
I found this on the Web, which provides a bit more (cryptic) context:

1624 FLETCHER
Wife for Month II. i.
Me. I would chuse March, for I would come in like a Lion.
To. But you'ld go out like a Lamb, when you went to hanging.

Note that:
It's WIFE FOR A MONTH, not for A DAY (obviously they were less fickle
back in the 17th century; in spite of the famous dumbshow WHO DOTH
DESIRETH
TO BE WED WITH ONE WHO HATH A FORTUNE OF MANY MANY MANY POUNDS?)
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Aloha y'all   ...   Earl J.
"Just an old Maui boy with a poor sense of direction ...
Guilford, CT ... working his way back home; one state at a time!"
www.moniz.org / earlj@moniz.org
Guilford Lakes Elementary
Librarian/Media Specialist

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