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Quotation from Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare

“Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise, Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affectation”

William Shakespeare (spoken by Berowne)

Love's Labour's Lost, Act V, Scene 2 (Project Gutenberg #1510)

After the failed Muscovite masquerade Berowne renounces the ornaments of courtly wooing.

Citation: "Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise, Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affectation" — William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, Act V, Scene 2 (Project Gutenberg #1510). (id loves-labours-lost-q9)

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