Frothy Sky

This is a more literal interpretation of the word for today's Shakespeare Challenge. This was take shortly after take-off from Spain back to the UK. Looking down, I thought the clouds resembled froth so grabbed compact camera!

Froth
Froth is a foolish gentleman and Elbow a constable. They appear briefly in ‘Measure for Measure’ and have such wonderful names that the imagination can work overtime!
Within the scene Elbow explains that he is the Duke’s constable. He often gets his words muddled so it makes it difficult for Angelo to question him. He has brought Froth and Pompey to him for being in a brothel. Froth confesses to working for Mistress Overdone and Escalus tells the men that working in prostitution is illegal and punishable and that they should not been seen in a brothel again.

An alternative quote for ‘froth’ is from ‘The Rape of Lucrece’:
“What win I, if I gain the thing I seek?
A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy.
Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week?
Or sells eternity to get a toy?
For one sweet grape who will the vine destroy?
Or what fond beggar, but to touch the crown,
Would with the sceptre straight be strucken down?”