History of Quill Ink

Here\'s what\'s inside: History of Quill Ink Where ink shows up in Shakespeare’s plays: “Ink and paper, Charmian.” - Cleopatra, Anthony and Cleopatra (I.5) “Get me ink and paper:” - Cleopatra, Anthony and Cleopatra (I.5) “If the skin were parchment, and the blows you gave were ink, Your own handwriting would tell you what I think.” - Dromio of Ephesus, Comedy of Errors (III.1) “I will remain The loyal'st husband that did e'er plight troth: My residence in Rome at one Philario's, Who to my father was a friend, to me Known but by letter: thither write, my queen, And with mine eyes I'll drink the words you send, Though ink be made of gall.” - Posthumous Leonatus, Cymbeline (I.1) O damn'd paper! Black as the ink that's on thee! - Pisanio, Cymbeline (III.2) “Wherefore you do so ill translate yourself Out of the speech of peace, that bears such grace, Into the harsh and boist'rous tongue of war; Turning your books to graves, your ink to blood, Your pens to lances, and your tongue divine To a loud trumpet and a point of war?” - Earl of Westmoreland, Henry IV Part II (IV.1) “I'll call for pen and ink, and write my mind.” - Earl of Suffolk, Henry VI Part 1 (V.3) “where, I mean, I did encounter that obscene and preposterous event, that draweth from my snow-white pen the ebon-coloured ink, which here thou viewest, beholdest, surveyest, or seest;” - Ferdinand, Love’s Labour’s Lost (I.1) he hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink Sir Nathaniel, Love’s Labour’s Lost (IV.2) “Never durst poet touch a pen to write Until his ink were temper'd with Love's sighs: - Biron, Love’s Labour’s Lost (IV.3) Beauteous as ink; a good conclusion.” - Princess of France, Love’s Labour’s Lost (V.2) “Ink would have seem'd more black and damned here!'” - William Shakespeare, Lover’s Complaint “O, she is fallen Into a pit of ink, that the wide sea Hath drops too few to wash her clean again And salt too little which may season give To her foul-tainted flesh!” - Leonato, Much Ado About Nothing (IV.1) “O Lychorida, Bid Nestor bring me spices, ink and paper,” Pericles (III.1) “Give me some ink and paper in my tent I'll draw the form and model of our battle,” - Richmond (Henry VIII), Richard III (V.3) “I will not sup to-night. Give me some ink and paper.” - Richard III (Duke of Gloucester), Richard III (V.3) Set it down. Is ink and paper ready? - Richard III (Duke of Gloucester), Richard III (V.3) Is it even so? then I defy you, stars! Thou know'st my lodging: get me ink and paper, And hire post-horses; I will hence to-night.- Romeo, Romeo and Juliet (V.1) “That in black ink my love may still shine bright.” - Shakespeare, Sonnet 65 “What's in the brain that ink may character Which hath not figured to thee my true spirit?” - Shakespeare, Sonnet 108 (he’s talking about how to write...

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