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''QUEEN'': This covenant is well-drafted, but yegads! | ''QUEEN'': This covenant is well-drafted, but yegads! ’Tis lengthy. <br> | ||
''TRIAGO'' (''bowing unctuously''): The writer [[shall]] be [[deemed]] hereinbefore [[obliged]]. <br> | ''[[Triago|TRIAGO]]'' (''bowing unctuously''): The writer [[shall]] be [[deemed]] hereinbefore [[obliged]]. <br> | ||
''HERCULIO'': My liege and madam, to expostulate <br> | ''[[Herculio|HERCULIO]]'': My liege and madam, to expostulate <br> | ||
What brevity should be, what clarity is — <br> | What brevity should be, what clarity is — <br> | ||
Why “day” is business day, and “time” is closing time.<br> | Why “day” is business day, and “time” is closing time.<br> | ||
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And [[boilerplate]] the crutch of wretched [[tedium]]<br> | And [[boilerplate]] the crutch of wretched [[tedium]]<br> | ||
I will be brief, where Triago, in all his trite facility, cannot.<br> | I will be brief, where Triago, in all his trite facility, cannot.<br> | ||
{{triago deemery}} | |||
''HERCULIO'': How now, good lady: doth thou now understand? <br> | ''HERCULIO'': How now, good lady: doth thou now understand? <br> | ||
''QUEEN'': I fear I do, in that I do not. Speak, Triago — but pray, be quick. <br> | ''QUEEN'': I fear I do, in that I do not.<br> | ||
''TRIAGO'': Was it not ever not unlike a thing unsuch as this? <br> | Speak, Triago — but pray, be quick. <br> | ||
''HERCULIO'': We fold our patron’s righteous sleep in word pollution <br> | ''TRIAGO'': Celerity shall herein be mutually agreed to be — and shall be deemed to be — the watchword Madam! <br> | ||
By the chaff and shucks and hulls of convolution <br> | ''HERCULIO'': There goeth that wretched [[deemery]] — <br> | ||
And whoever buys these minty lines: understand <br> | ''TRIAGO'': Was it not ever not unlike a thing [[Triple negative|unsuch as this]]? <br> | ||
Lexical complexity doth, pro rata with thy budget, soon expand.<br><br> | ''QUEEN'': Damn and blast your eyes Triago! <br> | ||
''CURTAIN''}} | Have at you now! <br> | ||
:''QUEEN runs TRIAGO through with a rapier and exits'' <br> | |||
''HERCULIO'': | |||
:We fold our patron’s righteous sleep in word pollution <br> | |||
:By the chaff and shucks and hulls of convolution <br> | |||
:And whoever buys these minty lines: understand <br> | |||
:Lexical complexity doth, pro rata with thy budget, soon expand.<br><br> | |||
:''CURTAIN''}} | |||
Latest revision as of 07:59, 11 April 2022
QUEEN: This covenant is well-drafted, but yegads! ’Tis lengthy.
TRIAGO (bowing unctuously): The writer shall be deemed hereinbefore obliged.
HERCULIO: My liege and madam, to expostulate
What brevity should be, what clarity is —
Why “day” is business day, and “time” is closing time.
’Tis buried — lost — among the cluttered syntax of this deed.
QUEEN: ’Twas no compliment, good Herculio, rest assured.
A crafty phrase to propitiate that noisome clerk, no more.
HERCULIO: Madam, I do concur!
Since brevity is the soul of wit,
And boilerplate the crutch of wretched tedium
I will be brief, where Triago, in all his trite facility, cannot.
TRIAGO: Milady! With all due and payable respect, and interest accrued thereon
I wouldst be inclined to be supportive of dissent —
QUEEN: O, exasperating vapours! Whatever doth he mean?
HERCULIO: Triago disagrees.
“Inclined”, Triago? “Supportive”? As straight as that?
No deemery to wrap it round?
TRIAGO: Aye, deemèd, perchance — I pray just such indulgence
To vouchsafe avoidance of some doubt.
QUEEN: Doubt, Triago?
TRIAGO: I’ll think of something, Majesty.
HERCULIO: How now, good lady: doth thou now understand?
QUEEN: I fear I do, in that I do not.
Speak, Triago — but pray, be quick.
TRIAGO: Celerity shall herein be mutually agreed to be — and shall be deemed to be — the watchword Madam!
HERCULIO: There goeth that wretched deemery —
TRIAGO: Was it not ever not unlike a thing unsuch as this?
QUEEN: Damn and blast your eyes Triago!
Have at you now!
- QUEEN runs TRIAGO through with a rapier and exits
HERCULIO:
- We fold our patron’s righteous sleep in word pollution
- By the chaff and shucks and hulls of convolution
- And whoever buys these minty lines: understand
- Lexical complexity doth, pro rata with thy budget, soon expand.
- CURTAIN