QUOTING SHAKESPEARE
IF YOU CANNOT UNDERSTAND MY ARGUMENT. AND DECLARE:
it's Greek to me. you are quoting Shakespeare. IF you claim
to be more sinned against than sinning, you are quoting
Shakespeare. IF you act more in sorrow than in anger, if
your wish is rather to the thought, if your lost property has
vanished into thin air, you are quoting Shakespeare. IF you
have ever refused to budge an inch or suffered from green-
eyed jealousy, if you have played rast and loose, if you have
been tongue-lied — a lower 01 strength — hoodwinked or in
a pickle, if youv have knitted your brows — made a virtue or
necessity, insisted on fair play — slept not one wink — Stood on
ceremony — danced attendance on your lord and master —
laughed yourself into stitches, had short shrift — cold comfort,
or too much of a good thing, if you have seen better days, or
lived in a fool's paradise, why, be that as it may, the more
[001 you. for it is a foregone conclusion that you are as good
luck would have it, quoting Shakespeare. IF you think it is
early days and clear out bag and baggage, if you think it is
high time, and that that is the long and short Of it, if you
believe that the game is up, and that truth will out, even if it
involves your own flesh and blood, if you lie low till the crack
Of doom because you suspect foul play, if you have teeth set
on edge at one fell swoop — without rhyme or reason, then to
give the devil his due if the truth were known for surely you
have a tongue in your head, you are quoting Shakespeare.
EVEN IF you bid me good riddance and send me packing, if you
wish I was dead as a doornail, if you think I am an eyesore —
a laughing stock — the devil incarnate — a stony-hearted villain
— bloody-minded, Or a blinking idiot, then by Jove — O Lord —
tut, tut! — For goodness' sake — what the dickens! — but me no
buts — it is all one to nle, for you are quoting Shakespeare...
.BEKNARD LEVIN
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