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Re: Methinks she thinks!



Bill Crerar <Bill_Crerar@engr.usask.ca> writes:
 
>Craving both your pardons, sirs, but I believe "Methinks the lady doth
>protest too much" was quoth by that melancholy Dane, Hamlet, in the play
>bearing his name, in reference to his mother.
 
Actually, Hamlet's mother said the line, in reference to a woman in a play
acting out a situation not unlike her life (Husband killed by brother,
wife marries brother).