MR. MASSEY AND SHAKESPEARE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1138, 26 August 1913, Page 3

MR. MASSEY AND SHAKESPEARE.

In winding up the Financial Debate, the Premier capped Mr G. W. Russell's attempt to dfescribe Ministers’ qualities through the medium of Shakespeare by fitting some apt quotations on the leaders of the Opposition. Mr Russell. — What cracker is this same, that deafs our ears With this abundance of superfluous breath ? —King John. Mr Hanan. — A gentleman, nurse, that loves to hear himselt talk, and will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month. —Romeo and Juliet. Mr MacDonald. — I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts ; I am no orator as Brutus is; I ouly speak right on. —Julius* Caesar. Mr Buddo.— He draweth oat the thread of bis verbosity Finer than the staple ot his argument. —Love’s Labour Lust. Mr Witty.—l am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men. —Henry IV. Mr Laurenson. — He has strangled His language in his tears. —Henry VIII.

Mr Myers.— Vaulting ambition which o’erleaps itself And falls on the other side. —Machett.

Mr Isitt. —Grautiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, his reasons are two grains of wheat hid in two bushels'of chaff ; you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them they are not worth the search. —Merchant of Venice.

Mr Wilford.—Oh, for a fortyparson power to chant thy praise, Hypocrisy! Oh, for a hymn loud as the virtues thou dost loudly vaunt, not practice! —Byron’s “Don Juan.”