That’s Shakespeare In Love
“What Wild Moonlight” by Victoria Lynne
TWO households, both alike in dignity
In fair Monaco, where we lay our scene
Nicholas Duvall and Katya Alexander are our Romeo and Juliet
A handsome blonde and a stunning brunette
AS ancient grudge break to new mystery
A lost Stone of Destiny and three scrolls make certain hands unclean
Whenceforth in days of yore both their households sought to unite
Two powerful families of medieval lore
By marriage a young gypsy lass and a fierce warrior one night
But alas through treachery and betrayal the night ends in gore
The Stone of Destiny then stole and lost to the ages
With the missing scrolls marking its resting place amongst its yellow pages
AND now dear friends of present days we speak
Of the Lord of Scoundrel and a gypsy magician lass
She whose brightness of her cheek would shame the stars that streak
And whose bosom Nicholas doth crave to caress
Forswear it sight!
Nicholas did ne’er saw true beauty till that night
A carriage ride doth spark this story start
With Katya posing as Nicholas’s mistress in exchange for the coins purloined
But soon Katya finds herself losing her heart
To Nicholas’ talents (i.e. his loins)
Katya then spots a ring on Nicholas’ impressive finger
Which means is a dragon and she, his slayer
But instead of fleeing her own mortal enemy she instead doth linger
And then beside the rose bushes she bid him to be her body’s surveyor
ARMED with letters from her great grandmother past
Katya bids to uncover the truth of that ancient night
What she finds though sets her mind harassed and her emotions outcast
For she finds that attraction bound the couple and not fright
“So why forth the anger and the suspicion of betrayal?” she doth muse
But little time to settle her mind did she have to wit,
For her life is by someone being abused
Causing Nicholas to rage, curse and spit
But Katya thinks it is Nicholas who wants her dead
(Clearly the dear lady must have falled on her head)
WHEN the villain is revealed, Katya is brought by he to a secret cave
Bound and held by gunpoint, our lady is forced to render the location of the Stone
Nicholas races to her rescue like a love sick knave
And despatches the villain leaving him dead to the bone
The lovers reunite and reveal their identity true
And return to their home to continue to screw
AND so doth end a story of forth the fatal loins of two foes
Whenceforth pair of star-crossed lovers meet and mate for life
For though whole misadventured piteous overthrows
They do with their love bury their families’ strife