flatter the mountaintops (wait, is that a pun?)

[lotesse]

...I just dreamed I was teaching my sister to speak Shakespeare. She had to recite "full many a glorious morning," and I was beating out the scansion for her. She was complaining that it sounded weird when I read it like that.

TOO MUCH SHAKESPEARE IN MY BRAINS.

...Coleridge called the pun "Shakespeare's fatal Cleopatra."