What I love about Shakespeare is he was writing popular theater, middle brow stuff. But what a vocabulary! Back when we aspired to know & use words intelligently. And also verbal history for the masses.
modern people need to get over their fear of elizabethan english! they might enjoy his bawdiness if they can't be transported by his use of language. after all, mark twain wrote a slim book on farting...
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He did something so stupid
He fretted he'd be put through the courts.
—Speedy Alka-Seltzer
Thou smother'st honesty, thou murder'st troth;
Thou foul abettor! thou notorious bawd!
Thou plantest scandal and displacest laud:
Thou ravisher, thou traitor, thou false thief,
Thy honey turns to gall, thy joy to grief
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And useth it to patronage his theft.
There's a lot going on..