Shakespeare in "Love's Labour's Lost" and the Non Reader.

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Default Shakespeare in "Love's Labour's Lost" and the Non Reader.

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Sir, he hath never fed of the dainties that are bred
in a book; he hath not eat paper, as it were; he
hath not drunk ink: his intellect is not
replenished; he is only an animal, only sensible in
the duller parts:
And such barren plants are set before us, that we
thankful should be,
Which we of taste and feeling are, for those parts that
do fructify in us more than he.
For as it would ill become me to be vain, indiscreet, or a fool,
So were there a patch set on learning, to see him in a school:
But omne bene, say I; being of an old father's mind,
Many can brook the weather that love not the wind.
—Sir Nathaniel from "Love’s Labour’s Lost" (Act IV, Scene II)
Shakespeare sure can insult intelligently.
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