Reading Twelfe Night, or What You Will — William Shakespeare

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This fellow is wise enough to play the foole,

And to do that well, craues a kind of wit:

He must obserue their mood on whom he iests,

The quality of persons, and the time:

And like the Haggard, checke at euery Feather

That comes before his eye. This is a practice,

As full of labour as a Wise‑mans Art:

For folly that he wisely shewes, is fit;

But wisemens folly falne, quite taint their wit.

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