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''QUEEN'': This covenant is well-drafted, | ''QUEEN'': This covenant is well-drafted, but yegads! ’tis lengthy. <br> | ||
''TRIAGO'' (''bowing unctuously''): The writer [[shall]] be [[deemed]] hereinbefore [[obliged]]. <br> | ''TRIAGO'' (''bowing unctuously''): The writer [[shall]] be [[deemed]] hereinbefore [[obliged]]. <br> | ||
''HERCULIO'': My liege and madam, to expostulate <br> | ''HERCULIO'': My liege and madam, to expostulate <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'': With | ''TRIAGO'': Milady! With all due and payable respect, and interest accrued thereon <br> | ||
''QUEEN'': O, exasperating vapours! | I wouldst be [[inclined]] to be [[supportive]] of dissent!<br> | ||
''QUEEN'': O, exasperating vapours! Whatever doth he mean?<br> | |||
''HERCULIO'': Triago disagrees. “[[Inclined]]”, Triago? “[[Supportive]]”? As straight as that? No [[Deemed|deemery]] to wrap it round? <br> | ''HERCULIO'': Triago disagrees. “[[Inclined]]”, Triago? “[[Supportive]]”? As straight as that? No [[Deemed|deemery]] to wrap it round? <br> | ||
''TRIAGO'': Aye, [[Deemed|deemèd]], perchance — | ''TRIAGO'': Aye, [[Deemed|deemèd]], perchance — I pray just such indulgence | ||
To vouchsafe [[for the avoidance of doubt|avoidavoidance of some doubt]]. <br> | |||
''QUEEN'': Doubt, Triago? <br> | |||
''TRIAGO'': I’ll think of something, Majesty. <br> | |||
''HERCULIO'': How now, good lady: doth thou now understand? <br> | ''HERCULIO'': How now, good lady: doth thou now understand? <br> | ||
''QUEEN'': | ''QUEEN'': I fear I do, in that I do not. Speak, Triago — but pray, be quick. <br> | ||
''TRIAGO'': Lexical complexity doth, pro rata with thy budget, | ''TRIAGO'': Was it not ever not unlike a thing unsuch as this? <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''}} | |||
Revision as of 08:25, 8 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 avoidavoidance 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: Was it not ever not unlike a thing unsuch as this?
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