The Gordon & Tony Show

 

 “Gordonius.  “….And do you now strew flowers in his way

that comes in triumph over Iraq’s blood?

Run to your houses, fall upon your knees,

Pray to the gods to intermit the avian plague

That needs must alight on your ingratitude”.

 

Charles. “You know it is the feast of Eastertide”

Gordonius. “It is no matter; let no images

Be hung with Tonius’s trophies. I’ll about

And drive away the vulgar from the streets…”

 

Enter Tonius: Milburn, the soothsayer, “Beware the recent Ides of March”.

Tonius. “He is a dreamer; let us leave him”.

 

Gordonius. “Look you Bennius,

The angy spot doth glow on Tonius’s brow,

And Twojags looks with such ferret

and such fiery eyes as we have seen him on the hustings”.

 

Tonius. “Let me have men about me that are fat;

Sleek-headed men and such as sleep o’nights,

Such as our beloved Macartna

who I have elevated above his station.

Yon Gordonius hath a sly and hungry look”.

 

Enter Hoonius. Sir, some people desire to see you”.

Gordonius. “Do you know them?”

Hoonius. No sir; their hats are plucked about their ears,

And half their faces buried in their cloaks”.

 

Gordonius. “Let ‘em enter. O conspiracy. Shamest thou

to show thy dangerous brow by night,

when evils are most free. Oh, then by day

Where wilt one find a cavern dark enough to

mask thy monstrous visage? Seek none, conspiracy.

Hide it in smiles and affability”.

 

Enter the conspirators.

Gordonius: “Know I these men that come along with you?”

Hoonius: “Yes, every man of them, and no man here but honours you…”

Gordonius. “Stoop, Britons, stoop, And let us bathe our hands

in Tonius’s blood…and waving our red weapons o’er our heads

Let’s all cry ’Peace, Freedom and Liberty’

All that hath been lost during Tonius’ rule”.

 

(as understood by Jim Addington) April 2006