About Nothing.
A man of this profession loses a contest in which he conjures the tree that guards the Garden of the Hesperides, but his opponent Vandermast summons Hercules to chop the tree down. In the same play, another man of this profession creates a gigantic head that intones "Time is," "time was," and "time has been," that he hopes will raise a wall of brass around England. A character of this profession describes "fire and powder / which as they kiss consume," and advises: " love moderately; long love doth so; Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow." Ithamore calls two men of this profession "caterpillars," in a scene in which one of them lays the charge "Thou hast committed," which (*) Barabbas interrupts with "fornication? But that was in another country; And besides the wench is dead." A character of this profession named Francis suggests that Leonato spread the false rumor that Hero has died of grief, in Much Ado About Nothing. The most famous Shakespearean character of this profession gives a soliloquy comparing plants to humans, and gives a woman a vial to fake her death, causing her lover to poison himself, which in turn makes her stab herself. For 10 points, name this profession of Laurence, the adviser to Romeo and Juliet.
A man of this profession loses a contest in which he conjures the tree that guards the Garden of the Hesperides, but his opponent Vandermast summons Hercules to chop the tree down.
friar