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Aug. 29th, 2014 10:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
SCENE. A public road.
Enter PUTIN, RUSSIA, OBAMA
PUTIN
Come on, i' God's name; once more toward our father's.
Good Lord, how bright and goodly shines the moon!
RUSSIA
The moon! the sun: it is not moonlight now.
PUTIN
I say it is the moon that shines so bright.
RUSSIA
I know it is the sun that shines so bright.
PUTIN
Now, by my mother's son, and that's myself,
It shall be moon, or star, or what I list,
Or ere I journey to your father's house.
Go on, and fetch our horses back again.
Evermore cross'd and cross'd; nothing but cross'd!
OBAMA
Say as he says, or we shall never go.
RUSSIA
Forward, I pray, since we have come so far,
And be it moon, or sun, or what you please:
An if you please to call it a rush-candle,
Henceforth I vow it shall be so for me.
PUTIN
I say it is the moon.
RUSSIA
I know it is the moon.
PUTIN
Nay, then you lie: it is the blessed sun.
RUSSIA
Then, God be bless'd, it is the blessed sun:
But sun it is not, when you say it is not;
And the moon changes even as your mind.
What you will have it named, even that it is;
And so it shall be so for Russia.
OBAMA
Putin, go thy ways; the field is won.
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Date: 2014-08-30 12:13 pm (UTC)