"And, like a strutting player, whose conceit Lies in his hamstring, and doth think it rich To hear the wooden dialogue and sound 'Twixt his stretch'd footing and the scaffoldage."

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Troilus and Cressida (c. 1602), Act I, scene 3, line 153.

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