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Old 08-11-2019, 02:23 PM
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Originally Posted by barrysloate View Post
David- I also appreciate your knowledge of Shakespeare, so I've got a trivia question for you:

In what play did Shakespeare pay tribute to Christopher Marlowe?
Touchstone in As You Like It
“Dead shepherd, now I find the saw of might,
Who ever loved that loved not at first sight.”

Also in that play there’s a line, “it will strike a man more dead than a great reckoning in a little room”, which appears to be a reference to Marlowe’s death in a brawl over the “Reckoning” at Eleanor Bull’s tavern.
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