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...this time period.
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HADGE: Shakespeare used a lot
of fancy words. You know?

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And it's hard to understand,
to grasp them.

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They're not fancy words.
That's where we get confused.

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But they're poetry. It's hard
to grab hold of some rap slang too.

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It's hard to get hold of it until your ear
gets tuned. You have to tune up.

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In a contemporary play, someone says:
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"Hey, you. Go over there,
get that thing and bring it to me."

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That would be the line.
Shakespeare says it:

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"Be Mercury, set feathers to thy heels...
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...and fly like thought
from them to me again."

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The King is weak and sickly...
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...and his physicians fear him mightily.
- By Saint John, that news is bad indeed.

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O, he hath kept an evil diet long.
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You shouldn't have to understand
every single word.

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Why? Do you understand every...?
I mean, it's not important.

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It doesn 't matter.
As long as you get the gist of it.

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Just trust it. You'll get it.
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ALLEN:
And if he were dead...

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...what would betide on me?
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No other harm but loss of such a lord.
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The loss of such a lord
includes all harm.

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They're trying to soothe her
because she is an hysteric.

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- She is way out of control.
ALLEN: But does that weaken...

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...the reality of what's happening?
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KIMBALL: It strengthens
the incompetence of others...

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But why should they be incompetent?
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- Why make them weaker?
KIMBALL: Because they went to Ludlow...

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...with little train
and got their heads cut off.

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But then it's no great deed on his part
if you make them weak.

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PACINO: They're not weak.
ALLEN: They're not weak...

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...nor do I think that they're stupid.
I think...

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By diminishing their importance,
you diminish his actions.

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- It's bound to happen.
- It's a very human, familial thing to say:

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"Calm down. It will be all right."
But underneath it...


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