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61 Ghazal Game #12: KnowYour Shakespeare (Guess the play from which each couplet quotes) Question: better “to be or not to be?” Advice: “ . . . a borrower nor lender be.” Monolingual audiences can grasp, “but, for mine own part it was Greek to me.” Here’s a good one for my pothead students: “I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.” An argument of land and sea service: “I will praise any man that will praise me.” “The most peaceable way [to] take a thief, is, to let him . . . steal out of your company . . .” The history of all relationships Deftly reported: “What must be shall be.” At this point I’m giving away answers. Here: “O! Beware, my lord, of jealousy.” Eponymous questioner who asks, “Is This a dagger which I see before me?” In this play, adversaries in law try To remain friends as they “strive mightily.” Was it so good to be the king? He cried, “The little dogs and all . . . they bark at me.” This last one’s hard, and sums up my whole life: “A man I am, cross’d with adversity.” ...

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