I get the bastard reference but not the first part.
I was watching the chimes at midnight the other day and had to fucking pause and rewind a bunch of times to understand what the fuck they were saying. I need to read some more Shakespeare and early modern English
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I take that line (out of context) as his father being absent. Fathered = he has a biological father, fatherless = his father failed to be a father figure to his son.
