Forsooth, the world hath declared this day a time for using ‘thou’ and ‘thee’ and verily, ‘ye olde English. ✍️📜
Let us mark the birth of the bard by speaking in the manner of his time, with anachronistic flair!
Thou art not obliged to speak in the tongue of the Bard, but prithee, give it a try!
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‘All the world’s a stage,
and all the men and women merely players.
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts.’
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‘I wasted time,
and now doth time waste me.’
‘Talking isn’t doing.
It is a kind of good deed to say well;
and yet words are not deeds.’
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‘If you prick us do we not bleed?
If you tickle us do we not laugh?
If you poison us do we not die?
And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?’
‘Words without thoughts never to heaven go.’
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‘If music be the food of love play on.‘
‘Good night, good night!
Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.’
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‘Brevity is the soul of wit.‘
#TalkLikeShakespeareDay
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