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" element,' but the word is over-worn. \Exit. Vio. This fellow is wise enough to play the fool ; And to do that well craves a kind of wit : He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time, And, like the haggard, check at... "
The plays of William Shakespeare, with the corrections and illustr. of ... - Page 400
by William Shakespeare - 1768
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Particular Saints: Shakespeare's Four Antonios, Their Contexts, and Their Plays

Cynthia Lewis - 1997 - 268 pages
...of foolish wisdom and wise folly, as Viola notes after having sparred with him: This fellow is wise enough to play the fool, And to do that well craves a kind of wit. He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time; And like the haggard,...
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Who's who in Shakespeare

Peter Quennell, Hamish Johnson - 2002 - 246 pages
...Orsino's melancholy and Olivia's obsessive mourning. Olivia characterizes him: This fellow is wise enough to play the fool. And to do that well, craves a kind of wit: He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time : And like the haggard,...
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Word On The Street: Debunking The Myth Of A Pure Standard English

John Mcwhorter - 2000 - 306 pages
...that appears transparent but is not comes in Twelfth Night, when Viola observes: This fellow is wise enough to play the fool; And to do that well craves a kind of wit. He must observe their mood on whom he jests. The quality of persons, and the time, And, like the haggard,...
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Shakespeare and the Poets' War

James Bednarz - 2001 - 358 pages
...supplements Olivia's encomium moriae with her own definition of Feste's "art": This fellow is wise enough to play the fool, And to do that well craves a kind of wit. He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time; And like the haggard,...
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Shakespeare Survey, Volume 44

Stanley Wells - 2002 - 282 pages
...Night where she reflects on the qualities demanded of a fool by his occupation: This fellow is wise enough to play the fool, And to do that well craves a kind of wit. He must observe their mood on whom he jests. The quality of persons, and the time. And, like the haggard,...
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The Wisdom of Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - 2002 - 244 pages
...sir, does walk about the orb like the sun, it shines everywhere. Feste — TNIII.i This fellow is wise enough to play the fool; And to do that well craves a kind of wit; He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time, And, like the haggard,...
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Shakespeare Made Easy, Volume 10

Tanya Grosz - 2004 - 72 pages
..."Contemplation makes a rare turkey-cock of him; how he jets under his advanced plumes!" 3. "This fellow's wise enough to play the fool, and to do that well craves a kind of wit; . . ." 4. "That youth's a rare courtier." 5. "My master loves her dearly. . . ." 6. ". . . if he were...
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Shakespeare and Language

Catherine M. S. Alexander - 2004 - 310 pages
...49-54) When he is gone. Viola gives her famous assessment of Feste and his art: This fellow is wise enough to play the fool; And to do that well craves a kind of wir. He must observe their mood on whom he Iests, I he quality of persons, and the time; And. like...
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The Great Comedies and Tragedies

William Shakespeare - 2005 - 900 pages
...welkin — I might say 'element,' but the word is over- worn. [he goes within VIOLA This fellow is wise enough to play the fool, And to do that well craves a kind of wit: He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time; 60 And, like the haggard,...
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Twelfth Night

William Shakespeare - 2005 - 276 pages
...welkin — I might say "element," but the word is overworn. 60 He exits. VIOLA This fellow is wise enough to play the Fool, And to do that well craves a kind of wit. He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time, And, like the haggard,...
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