Birthday Bard

Saturday, April 23rd is the day 'we' celebrate the birthday of William Shakespeare. His exact birth date is unknown, but he was baptized on April 26th 1564 so this date was chosen some time ago, partly because it is also the day he died in 1616.

I don't know what Jesus and Willie agreed upon when he went to eternity, but I sure do hope he is in heaven when I get there, because I would really like to hang out with someone who says stuff like this:

Being your slave, what should I do but tend
upon the hours and times of your desire?
I have no precious time at all to spend,
nor services to do, till you require.
Nor dare I chide the world-without-end hour
whilst I, my soveriegn, watch the clock for you,
nor think the bitterness of absence sour
when you have bid your servant once adieu.
Nor dare I question with my jealous thought
where you may be, or your affairs suppose,
but like a slave stay and think of nought
Save, where you are, how happy you make those.
So true a fool is love that in your will
though you do anything, he thinks no ill.