Dear Roberta

Just to get you started on a mammoth programme, I have
done a search of Kipling online resources  (mainly
Project Gutenberg) for the word 'Shakespear', and come
up with fourteen quotes, excluding the 'Proofs of Holy
Writ' which John Radcliffe has already mentioned.
Since only a some of the works are available on line,
I am sure that plenty more references can be found.

I append the extracts to the bottom of this email.

Enjoy you hunt!

With best regards
David Page
Harrow UK

'On the Gate' - Debits and Credits

But Death was right. They need not have hurried. The
crowd at The Gate was far
beyond the capacities of the Examining Board even
though, as St. Peter’s Deputy
informed him, it had been enlarged twice in his
absence.
‘We’re doing our best,’ the Seraph explained, ‘but
delay is inevitable, Sir. The
Lower Establishment are taking advantage of it, as
usual, at the tail of the
Convoys. I’ve doubled all pickets there, and I’m
sending more. Here’s the extra
list, Sir—Arc J., Bradlaugh C., Bunyan J., Calvin J.
Iscariot J. reported to me
just now, as under your orders, and took ’em with him.
Also Shakespeare W.
and——’

'The Gardener' - Debits and credits

At ten years old, after two terms at a prep. school,
something or somebody gave
him the idea that his civil status was not quite
regular. He attacked Helen on
the subject, breaking down her stammered defences with
the family directness.
‘Don’t believe a word of it,’ he said, cheerily, at
the end. ‘People wouldn’t
have talked like they did if my people had been
married. But don’t you bother,
Auntie. I’ve found out all about my sort in English
Hist’ry and the Shakespeare
bits. There was William the Conqueror to begin with,
and—oh, heaps more, and
they all got on first-rate. ’Twon’t make any
difference to you, my being
that—will it?’

'The Propagation of Knwledge' - Debits and Credits,
also The Complete Stalky

Too many references to quote!

'Kim'

'Ah!  Thatt is the question, as Shakespeare hath it.
I come to
congratulate you on your extraordinary effeecient
performance at
Delhi.  Oah!  I tell you we are all proud of you.  It
was verree
neat and handy.  Our mutual friend, he is old friend
of mine. He has
been in some dam'-tight places.  Now he will be in
some more. He
told me; I tell Mr Lurgan; and he is pleased you
graduate so nicely.
All the Department is pleased.'

'The Courting of Dinah Shadd' - Life's Handicap

‘But what do you know about Polonius?’ I demanded.
This was a new side of
Mulvaney’s character.
‘All that Shakespeare iver wrote an’ a dale more that
the gallery shouted,’ said
the man of war, carefully lacing his boots. ‘Did I not
tell you av Silver’s
theatre in Dublin whin I was younger than I am now an’
a patron av the drama?

'The Dream of Duncan Parrenness' - Life's Handicap

LIKE Mr. Bunyan of old, I, Duncan Parrenness, Writer
to the Most Honourable the
East India Company, in this God-forgotten city of
Calcutta, have dreamed a
dream, and never since that Kitty my mare fell lame
have I been so troubled.
Therefore, lest I should forget my dream, I have made
shift to set it down here.
Though Heaven knows how unhandy the pen is to me who
was always readier with
sword than ink-horn when I left London two long years
since.
When the Governor-General’s great dance (that he gives
yearly at the latter end
of November) was finisht, I had gone to mine own room
which looks over that
sullen, un-English stream, the Hoogly, scarce so sober
as I might have been.
Now, roaring drunk in the West is but fuddled in the
East, and I was drunk
Nor’-Nor’ Easterly as Mr. Shakespeare might have said.


'Brugglesmith' - Many Inventions

M‘Phee could never pay a compliment prettily. The
friend sat down suddenly on a
bollard, saying that M‘Phee had understated the truth.
Personally, he on the
bollard considered that Shakespeare was trembling in
the balance solely on my
account, and if the first officer wished to dispute
this he was prepared to
fight the first officer then or later, ‘as per
invoice.’

'Watches of the Night' - Plain Tales from the Hills

Shakespeare alludes to the pleasure of watching an
Engineer being shelled by
his own Battery. Now this shows that poets should not
write about what they do
not understand. Any one could have told him that
Sappers and Gunners are
perfectly different branches of the Service. But, if
you correct the sentence,
and substitute Gunner for Sapper, the moral comes just
the same.

'His Wedded Wife' - Plain Tales from the Hills

Shakespeare says something about worms, or it may be
giants or
beetles, turning if you tread on them too severely.
The safest plan
is never to tread on a worm--not even on the last new
subaltern from
Home, with his buttons hardly out of their tissue
paper, and the red
of sappy English beef in his cheeks.

'In Error' - Plain Tales from the Hills

Because Mrs. Reiver was cold and hard, he said she was
stately and
dignified.  Because she had no brains, and could not
talk cleverly,
he said she was reserved and shy.  Mrs. Reiver shy!
Because she was
unworthy of honor or reverence from any one, he
reverenced her from
a distance and dowered her with all the virtues in the
Bible and
most of those in Shakespeare.

'Weland's Sword' - Puck of Pook's Hill

The children were at the Theatre, acting to Three Cows
as
much as they could remember of Midsummer Night's
Dream.  Their father had made them a small play out of
the
big Shakespeare one, and they had rehearsed it with
him
and with their mother till they could say it by heart.
 They
began when Nick Bottom the weaver comes out of the
bushes with a donkey's head on his shoulders, and
finds
Titania, Queen of the Fairies, asleep.

'A Little Prep' - STalky & Co

"'Strange, how desire doth outrun performance,'" said
Beetle
irreverently, quoting from some Shakespeare play that
they were
cramming that term. They regained their study and
settled down to the
imposition.

'The Flag of their Country' - Stalky & Co

"Nor art either. D'you remember our 'Evening with
Shakespeare'?" The
Head's eyes twinkled. "Or the humorous gentleman with
the magic
lantern?"


"Ouh! Reomeo, Reomeo. Wherefore art thou Reomeo?" said
McTurk over his
shoulder, quoting the Shakespeare artiste of last
term. "Well, he
won't be as bad as _her_, I hope. Stalky, are you
properly patriotic?
Because if you ain't, this chap's goin' to make you."

'They' - Traffics and Discoveries

Here, then, I stayed; a horseman's green spear laid at
my breast; held by the
exceeding beauty of that jewel in that setting.
``If I am not packed off for a trespasser, or if this
knight does not ride a
wallop at me,'' thought I, ``Shakespeare and Queen
Elizabeth at least must come
out of that half-open garden door and ask me to tea.''








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