This learned constable is too cunning to be FTLN 2388 understood
"Too clever b y half!" Most days this is among my top five favorite lines in this play.
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Marry, sir, they have committed false FTLN 2375 report; moreover, they have spoken untruths; FTLN 2376 secondarily, they are slanders; sixth and lastly, they FTLN 2377 have belied a lady; thirdly, they have verified unjust FTLN 2378 things; and, to conclude, they are lying knaves.
So in place of R&J's misdirected messenger, our play rides on to its comedic salvation with the aid of the amazing Dogberry and his associates.
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And let my counsel sway you in this case. FTLN 1923 Your daughter here the princes left for dead. FTLN 1924 Let her awhile be secretly kept in, FTLN 1925215 And publish it that she is dead indeed
How wickedly delightful that again a friar poses a solution involving feigned death, but unlike R&J's Friar Lawrence, puts us not on a path to tragedy but to comedy.
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