GFTU BGCM Minutes 2017

director of the hotel with John Fray over there who is the former President of

the GFTU and Doug and some other directors just to make sure it comes

through, so I kind of had a double hit on all of this and I will be continuing in

doing that.

Shakespeare. There are loads of things you could say, but I have found not a

sonnet, but a poem that he wrote, although I think it is in sonnet form, but let’s

not go down the English literature route. What is remarkable I think about it is it

is a commentary on contemporary artists around at the time in those

Elizabethan times. Now we are so used to immediate communications. How

did they know what was going on? He moved between Stratford and London

when he was working, but he kept his finger on the pulse of everything that was

happening right down to Roman history, as we saw last night, to contemporary

artists. This is from the Passionate Pilgrim. It is verse VIII of the Passionate

Pilgrim and it is a kind of love poem. I do not know who he is writing it to, but it

would be very nice to have this written for you. He says, “If music and sweet

poetry agree, As they must needs (the sister and the brother), Then must the

love be great ‘twixt thee and me, Because thou lov’st the one, and I the other.

Dowland to thee is dear, whose heavenly touch Upon the lute doth ravish

human sense; Spenser to me, whose deep conceit is such As passing all

conceit needs no defence. Thou lov’st to hear the sweet melodious sound That

Phoebus’ lute (the queen of music) makes; And I in deep delight am chiefly

drowned When as himself to singing he betakes. One god is god of both (as

poets feign) One knight loves both, and both in thee remain”. Thank you.

(Applause)

THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much, John. Lee, I understand you are moving a

vote of thanks.

VOTE OF THANKS

BRO LEE MOON (Nautilus International): President, conference, thanks for asking

me to move the vote of thanks. I was actually honoured to be asked to do this,

although I was given less than 24 hours’ notice to do it, so I have had to

remember the things that had happened, particularly over the last few days. If

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