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Shakespeare

So, for my English class, we had to memorize this portion of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream:

"Set your heart at rest:

The fairy land buys not the child of me.

His mother was a votaress of my order:

And, in the spiced Indian air, by night,

Full often hath she gossip'd by my side,

And sat with me on Neptune's yellow sands,

Marking the embarked traders on the flood,

When we have laugh'd to see the sails conceive

And grow big-bellied with the wanton wind;

Which she, with pretty and with swimming gait

Following,—her womb then rich with my young squire,—

Would imitate, and sail upon the land,

To fetch me trifles, and return again,

As from a voyage, rich with merchandise.

But she, being mortal, of that boy did die;

And for her sake do I rear up her boy,

And for her sake I will not part with him."

And anyways, I've been working  on memorizing it during swim practice. I've gotten to the point where I can recite it while kicking, but not during just sitting around, I've gotten into a rhythm. Anyways, I've been thinking that I should drag my English teacher to the pool, and make her grade me while I kick. It's a foolproof plan that probs won't work!