Posted by Smokey Stover on November 24, 2004
In Reply to: Re: Macedon and Monmouth posted by ESC on November 23, 2004
: : : Does anyone know where the saying "As different as Macedon and Monmouth" originated from?
: :
: : I've found it! It's from Shakespeare's Henry V.
: Thanks for posting and letting us know.
Pardon me for being a dunce, but lacking a copy at hand of Henry V, I don't know whether there's any significance in this choice of place names. Is it just that both start with M, but are very far apart geographically? SS