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- From: lawson@acuson.com (Drew Lawson)
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
- Subject: Shakespear (was: Inconsistency in the bible)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.150720.2208@acuson.com>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 15:07:20 GMT
- References: <1992Aug19.172123.27761@linus.mitre.org> <1992Aug20.040358.5439@uniwa.uwa.edu.au>
- Reply-To: lawson@aldia.UUCP (Drew Lawson)
- Organization: ACUSON, Mountain View, CA
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- In article <1992Aug20.040358.5439@uniwa.uwa.edu.au>
- diarmuid@uniwa.uwa.edu.au (Diarmuid Pigott) writes:
- >m23364@mwunix (James Meritt) writes:
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- >: What is the line from Shakespear[e] about "protesting too much"?
- >
- >I'm a paid researcher, but just for you - it's from Macbeth (the
- >Scottish Play) and it goes "Methinks the lady doth protest too much"
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- I hope you're not paid very much, then. The line is from Hamlet (the
- Danish play). It is uttered by Hamlet's mother while watching _Pyramus
- and Thisbe_ (probably spelled wrong).
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- Lady MacBeth never says anything nearly so cheerful.
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