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Shakespeare plays NATHANIEL on stage

A view of the stage, with a sign telling us that we are in a park. Shakespeare is centre-stage, performing as Nathaniel dressed as an Elizabethan scholar. He looks disdainful as he addresses his friend Holefernes. The constable, the object of their conversation, stands apart, looking around him unconcernedly

NATHANIEL Sir, he hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book. He hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink. His intellect is not replenished; he is only an animal, only sensible in the duller parts.

Love's Labour's Lost, Act 4 Scene 2

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