...prompted his fears, That it killed the Old Man of Madras. (Edward Lear, The Complete Nonsense) Now try a Sonnet: When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes,...all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heav'n with my bootless cries, And look upon myself and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more...

...and cleared my throat to begin reading. "When, in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes, Meg Oliver I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, And look upon myself and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featured like him,...

...nightly make grief's strength seem stronger. XXIX. When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, 1 all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf Heaven with my bootless cries, And look upon myself, and curse my fate, Wising me like to one more rich in hope, Featur'd like him,...

...pregnancy was what galvanized him into running away. Even the quote on the tape made sense. "When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes ... I all alone...state, and trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries." In his defense, he must have counted on Barbara going to my parents for support for his baby. Where...

...easy to hide. I would' ve killed for a shooter of Wild Turkey... any thing to numb the pain. When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes I all alone beweep...state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, And look upon myself and curse my fate... - William Shakespeare Half out of my head from heat and hangover,...

...state with kings. An untortured reading of the first quatrain produces something like this: When, in dis-grace with for-tune and men's eyes, I all a-lone be-weep my out-cast state, And troub-le deaf heav'n with my boot-less cries, And look upon myself, and curse my fate, Although the iambic foot (u...