RAT One Syllable Shakespeare

["Adam" <kafclown@well.com>]

The game was to take a famous speech and turn it into words of one syllable.
Here was my entry-- (there are no prizes, it's just for fun!)
Hope you enjoy!



  HAL V. (The Start)

O for a Muse of fire that would rise to
 the top cloud of bright thoughts;
 My whole house for a stage, more than one prince to act
 and more than one king to see this great scene!
 Then should old Hal, strong and fierce and mean,
 Wear the port of Mars, and at his heels
 Leashed in like hounds, should Want, Sword, and Fire
 crouch for work. But, give us leave, you nice men all,
 The flat and straight thoughts that do dare
 on this stage on a slant to bring forth
 so great a thing.  Can this small square hold
 the vast fields of France? Or may we cram
 in this O made of wood all the casques
 that made the air smell so bad in France?
 O, give us leave!  Since a hand drawn line may
 say with not much work much,
 Let us, naught but air and bone to this tale,
 on your mind and thoughts now work.
 Look on these walls and see that there
 are now two kings and their men
 whose high and tall fronts stand near,
 but the slim sea runs 'tween.
 Piece out our bad work with your thoughts;
 Cut a man in lots of parts and think
 that now he is lots of men.
 Think when we talk of a horse, that you see him run,
 and that the proud print of his hoof is on the earth;
 For 'tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings,
 and take them here and there, jump past the clock
 and turn the work of lots of those years
 through the sift of sand-- for the which use me,
 as a Guide to this tale of woe,
 And I, like I need to ask, will pray
 that you are nice when you hear and judge our play.
 



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