{"id":1214,"date":"2013-12-17T20:52:32","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T20:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/library\/?page_id=1214"},"modified":"2021-11-30T16:20:11","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T21:20:11","slug":"the-library-inscriptions-come-and","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/library\/about\/inscriptions\/the-library-inscriptions-come-and\/","title":{"rendered":"The Library Inscriptions &#8211; Come and&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A painted wooden panel mounted on the lobby wall is carved with the words<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Come, and take choice of all my library<br \/>\nAnd so beguile thy sorrow&#8230;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1215\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1215\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1549\/beguile.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1214]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1215\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1549\/beguile-300x64.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"64\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1549\/beguile-300x64.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1549\/beguile-80x17.jpg 80w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1549\/beguile.jpg 396w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1215\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Picture of inscription &#8220;Come, and take choice&#8230;&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px;line-height: 19px\">These lines are from William Shakespeare\u2019s Titus Andronicus, Act 4, scene 1, lines 34 and 35, a speech of Titus\u2019 to Lavinia after her mutilation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The italic copperplate style calligraphy of Raphael Boguslav (a Newport, R.I. resident) was enlarged and carved by John Benson. The panel of medium density fiberboard, with a birch veneer, measures 10 feet by 2 1\/4 feet. The letters were carved to a 90\u00ba V-section and painted a darker tint than that of the panel surface, which matches the wall color. The piece was installed on August 28, 1995.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a title=\"Inscriptions\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/library\/inscriptions\/\">Back to Inscriptions main page<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A painted wooden panel mounted on the lobby wall is carved with the words Come, and take choice of all my library And so beguile thy sorrow&#8230; These lines are from William Shakespeare\u2019s Titus Andronicus, Act 4, scene 1, lines 34 and 35, a speech of Titus\u2019 to Lavinia after her mutilation. The italic copperplate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":619,"featured_media":0,"parent":1094,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-1214","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/619"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9782,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1214\/revisions\/9782"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}