What would the Bard have thought?

Pedal on Parliament and the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death.

Both worthy of a blip, but how to combine?

"sermons in stones"

Very tenuously:
The phrase is from 'As You Like It': the usurped Duke lives "exempt from public haunt" in the Forest of Arden, where he has learned to accept as alternatives to civilization (company, learning, religion) the trees, brooks and stones (tongues, books, sermons) he lives among.

By contrast, the PoP cyclists were very much in 'public haunt', had more than enough like-minded company, could be said to be learning from the leaflets and bulletins being handed out, and received the secular equivalent of sermons from the campaigning speakers outside Holyrood.

We did cycle on stones and past churches on our way down the High St and Canongate.

I told you it was tenuous. Very!!!