MESSENGER:
Your honour's players, hearing your amendment,
Are come to play a pleasant comedy,
For so your doctors hold it very meet,
Seeing too much sadness hath congealed your blood,
And melancholy is the nurse of frenzy:
Therefore they thought it good you hear a play
And frame your mind to mirth and merriment,
Which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.
William Shakespeare - The Taming of the Shrew (Induction, scene 2)
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Your honour's players, hearing your amendment,
Are come to play a pleasant comedy,
For so your doctors hold it very meet,
Seeing too much sadness hath congealed your blood,
And melancholy is the nurse of frenzy:
Therefore they thought it good you hear a play
And frame your mind to mirth and merriment,
Which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.
William Shakespeare - The Taming of the Shrew (Induction, scene 2)
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKxsFyRAeVOSCRnmT-8k5DrJv5t9qpIZSdHOB0GmFWLPiWalWPaAb7qdUyq8PaFKQihdARSGboTGsXr8D4yoWyxRfo9lzm0M7lotAwMrSO9xW9vpqil0g9F6TmlA8mKPbo3UOtBcJjh9E/s640-rw/%25255BUNSET%25255D.jpg)