The Shakespeare Code

It is with over-whelming joy we report…..

….that on its first day of democratic freedom…..

….28 November, 2011…..

…..that great cradle of spirituality, EGYPT…..

….joined The Shakespeare Code….

In honour of this event, the Agents of The Code call on Trixie the Cat to recite Enobarbus’s sublime description of Cleopatra, on the Nile, in her barge…..

THE TRIXIE RECITATION

The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne,

Burned on the water; the poop was beaten gold

Purple the sails, and so perfumed that

The winds were love-sick with them; the oars were silver,

Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made

The water which they beat to follow faster,

As amorous of their strokes. For her own person,

It beggar’d all description: she did lie

In her pavilion, cloth-of-gold of tissue,

O’er-picturing that Venus where we see

The fancy out-work nature. On each side her

Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids,

With divers-coloured fans, whose wind did seem

To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool,

And what they undid, did…

There are now FIFTY-SEVEN participating nations in The Shakespeare Code…

‘Bye, now….