
by
TS » Fri Jun 01, 2007 8:35 am
Okay, I'm using this one only because in high school a few years ago, I had to "perform" == i.e., stand there and mumble it all out -- the whole scene from which it's taken for extra credit.
Speaker, play, context, and/or the character the speaker is addressing/"conjuring." If no one gets it, I'll give the line that immediately precedes the passage, 'cause that's a big hint:
'Appear thou in the likeness of a sigh!
Speak but one rhyme, and I am satisfied.
Cry but “Ay me!” Pronounce but “love” and “dove.”
Speak to my gossip Venus one fair word,
One nickname for her purblind son and heir,
Young Abraham Cupid, he that shot so true
When King Cophetua loved the beggar maid.—
He heareth not, he stirreth not, he moveth not.
The ape is dead, and I must conjure him.—
I conjure thee by Rosaline's bright eyes,
By her high forehead and her scarlet lip,
By her fine foot, straight leg, and quivering thigh,
And the demesnes that there adjacent lie,
That in thy likeness thou appear to us.'