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There's a skirmish of wit between them.

      — Much Ado about Nothing, Act I Scene 1

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KEYWORD: tune

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Troilus and Cressida
[III, 3]

Achilles

2181

Why, but he is not in this tune, is he?

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Troilus and Cressida
[III, 3]

Thersites

2182

No, but he's out o' tune thus. What music will be in
him when Hector has knocked out his brains, I know
not; but, I am sure, none, unless the fiddler Apollo
get his sinews to make catlings on.

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