As a diversion for myself, I decided to watch Much Ado About Nothing on movies-on-demand, when I had some down time today. I hadn't seen that movie in several years and it's one of my favorites.

Here's a photo and a link. Beware, it's a "chick flick" but it's a pleasant comedy, mostly well performed. One also must understand Shakespearean English.

 

 

  Much Ado About Nothing,

The prose, which is read by Emma Thompson, at the beginning of the film is what struck me. Even Shakespeare agrees with what I tell so many of my clients....yes, over 400 years old, this man agrees with me, I am in good company.

Sigh no more, ladies, sigh nor more;
    Men were deceivers ever;
One foot in sea and one on shore,
    To one thing constant never;
        Then sigh not so,
        But let them go,
    And be you blithe and bonny;
Converting all your sounds of woe
    Into. "Hey nonny, nonny".

Sing no more ditties, sing no more,
    Or dumps so dull and heavy;
The fraud of men was ever so,
    Since summer first was leavy.
        Then sigh not so,
        But let them go,
    And be you blithe and bonny,
Converting all your sounds of woe
    Into. "Hey, nonny, nonny".

Allow me to translate particular phrases and words:

Be blithe and bonny: no committal, young and beautiful

Converting all your sounds of woe into "Hey nonny, nonny": Changing your pains and complaints to nonsense and fun and jokes.

So 400 years ago some playwright was telling women not to take men so seriously, to stop making your complaints, and be nonchalant and pretty and make life fun.

How many years does it take women to get this?