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Wednesday, September 22, 2004
The Importance of Punctuation
Christopher Marlowe, Edward II, 5.4.8-12:
"Edwardum occidere nolite timere, bonum est: Fear not to kill the King; 'tis good he die." But read it thus, and that's another sense: "Edwardum occidere nolite, timere bonum est: Kill not the King; 'tis good to fear the worst."