But he, poor man, by your first order died,
And that a winged Mercury did bear;
Some tardy cripple bare the countermand,
That came too lag to see him buried.
Gloucester in Shakespeare’s Richard 3 (II.i.88-92)
It’s a fine example of the old Mercury Retrograde trick, “You got the email, right?”
Mercury is in apparent retrograde motion from August 30 to September 22 – but?
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