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    Talk like Shakespeare day

    Mark, 'tis 'Talk Liketh Shakespeare Day!' Then come, good fellows, and let us dream of dragons and finless fish, take but a moment and speak of clip-winged griffins and a ramping cat. The youth of England are on fire, and though men may sleep, some have knives with edges. Such words as his delight the eyes and fill the mind as the secret parts of fortune come to a handsome gentleman, as a stratagem to its quarter returns an ill-shaped fish with magnanimity! If you disagree, you are a stuffed cloak-bag of guts, a bolting-hutch of beastliness!  (h/t David Hoyt)

     

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    1. Charles Pigden Avatar
      Charles Pigden

      To talk of dragons and of finless fish?
      That’s Shakespeare-like but yet not like enough.
      For if to talk like Shakespeare is your wish
      If you would speak the great bard’s stately stuff
      Elizabethan diction will not do.
      There’s more is needed – that’s to speak in verse
      Without it Shakespeare-talking’s not for you
      Nor must you talking tediously rehearse
      Your halting rhythms – they must come out quick
      Or as a Shakespeare talker you are dead.
      Wit that is slow, why that’s not really wit
      And assonance is better than a rhyme
      If assonances pop into your head
      So that your verses pop out just in time.
      Now with a couplet I must end this scene.
      To work at tasks both less fun and more mean.

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    2. Eric Winsberg Avatar
      Eric Winsberg

      nice!

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