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Hello everyone, this is Jack Wilson, the host of the History of Literature Podcast.

I'm so glad you're here and welcome to the show.

One quick note before we begin, you have found one of the oldest episodes in our archive.

The show doesn't discuss literature in chronological order,

so you won't be missing anything if you start with the more recent episodes

instead of the earliest ones.

And, let's be honest honest the show's quality has improved

quite a bit since these early days. But of course where you begin is up to you and

if you'd like to give this one a try please be my guest. All of the episodes in the archive are yours to enjoy for free.

Hello, I'm Jack Wilson. We start with Shakespeare. I wonder that you will still be talking, Senior Benedict.

Nobody marks you.

What, my dear lady, disdain?

Are you yet living?

Is it possible disdain should die while she had such meat food to feed it as Senior

Benedict?

Courtesy itself must convert to disdain if you come in her presence.

Then it's courtesy a turncoat, but it is certain I am loved of all ladies, only you accepted,

and I would I could find in my heart that I had not a hard heart, but truly I loved none.

A dear happiness to women. They would else have been troubled with a pernicious

suitor. I thank God and my cold blood I am of your humour for that. I had rather hear my dog bark

at a crow than a man's where he loves me.

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