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A Game with William Shakespeare
In the following paragraph is concealed a familiar quotation from Shakespeare. Each word is buried in its proper order.
Can you discover the sentence?
Strange weather! What could equal it? Yesterday sunshine and soft breezes; today a summer cyclone raging noisily; then other changes, as floods of the fiercest rain eddy beneath the blast.
Can you discover the sentence?
Strange weather! What could equal it? Yesterday sunshine and soft breezes; today a summer cyclone raging noisily; then other changes, as floods of the fiercest rain eddy beneath the blast.
Answer
"THE QUALITY OF MERCY IS NOT STRAINED."Strange wea(THE)r! What could e(QUAL IT? Y)esterday sunshine and s(OF)t breezes; today a sum(MER CY)clone raging no(IS)ily; the(N OT)her changes, as floods of the fierce(ST RAIN ED)dy beneath the blast.
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That line was spoken by Portia in "The Merchant of Venice" right. We just took the test on that book today.
As Richard Armour asked, "If The Quality Of Mercy Is Not Strained, how do you get the lumps out of it?"
Good teaser!
Good teaser!
Easy, once I figured out what I was supposed to do. I was stuck in the sonnet "Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day?" I even matched a reference to, "Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May."
Good teaser.
Good teaser.
Easy, once I figured out what I was supposed to do. I was stuck in the sonnet "Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day?" I even matched a reference to, "Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May."
Good teaser.
Good teaser.
You spelled cyclone incorrectly in the answer
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