This quiz was hard. If you get most of them right, go and preen at the next MLA conference.

Did Shakespeare say it, or is it in the Bible?

1. How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child. Shakespeare, King Lear, Act I, Scene 4.
2. A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike. Bible, Proverbs 27:15.
3. Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. Bible, Song of Songs 2:5.
4. If music be the food of love, play on. Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act I, Scene 1.
5. He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha; and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting. Bible, Job 39:25.
6. He that might the vantage best have took found out the remedy. Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act II, Scene 2.
7. He led captivity captive…. Bible, Ephesians 4:8.
8. He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish. Bible, Judges 5:25.
9. Try what repentance can: what can it not? Yet what can it when one cannot repent? Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act III, Scene 3.
10. Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?
    Bible, Matthew 15:17.

Verily I say unto you….

Dmitri Gheorgheni

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