The erudite among you will recognise the title of this post as a quotation from Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’ and wonder what it can possibly have to do with paperfolding. I am not, however, quoting it directly from Shakespeare, but from the lesser known writer E H Barker Esq of Thetford, Norfolk, who, in 1828, published a book of reminiscences about one of his teachers, the Rev. Samuel Parr. In contrast to Hamlet, this seems to me to be about as obscure a publication as you can find.
Like quills upon the fretful porpentine
Like quills upon the fretful porpentine
Like quills upon the fretful porpentine
The erudite among you will recognise the title of this post as a quotation from Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’ and wonder what it can possibly have to do with paperfolding. I am not, however, quoting it directly from Shakespeare, but from the lesser known writer E H Barker Esq of Thetford, Norfolk, who, in 1828, published a book of reminiscences about one of his teachers, the Rev. Samuel Parr. In contrast to Hamlet, this seems to me to be about as obscure a publication as you can find.