Open Source Shakespeare

Speeches (Lines) for Messenger
in "Taming of the Shrew"

Total: 1

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Prologue,2,276

(stage directions). Enter a MESSENGER

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 congeal'd 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.