On 18/01/2020 04:51, Dick Balaska wrote:
> Am 1/14/20 8:50 AM, also sprach jr:
> 
> There is a law that you can't just say [Shakespeare]
> You have to say
> [Shakespeare - Henry VIII Act 4 Scene 2]
> 

That is very true. :)
I'm impressed that you looked it up. Another apt quote from the same 
speech would be:
He was a man of an unbounded stomach, ever ranking Himself with princes; 
one that, by suggestion, tied all the kingdom*: simony was fair-play; 
His own opinion was his law: i' the presence He would say untruths; and 
be ever double Both in his words and meaning: he was never, But where he 
meant to ruin, pitiful:


* The king (Queen)



Henry VIII, not one of his better plays. ;)
And re-reading the quote it seems quite incomprehensible to modern ears.


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Regards
     Stephen

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