6. If you have…refused to budge an inch;
If you have been…tongue tied, a tower of strength,
hoodwinked, in a pickle;
If you have…insisted on fair play, slept not a wink,
knitted your brows, seen better days;
If you think it is…early days;
If you think…the game is up and the truth will out;
If you…have your teeth set on edge, without rhyme or
reason, and you send me packing because I’m a
laughing stock…THEN –
You’re using language given to you by Mr Shakespeare!
10. Nothing is added to the
original text but those
words and expressions
are omitted which
cannot with propriety
be read aloud in a
family.
11. “It is not only the crowning glory of England,
it is the crowning glory of mankind, that
such a man should ever have been born as
William Shakespeare.”